Elizabeth Allan, Assistant Professor, Higher
Education Leadership, College of Education & Human Development
Carolyn Ball, Associate Professor, Public
Administration
Carolyn Ball, Ph.D. teaches courses in Public Management, Human Resources,
Administrative Theory, and Statistics. Her research interests include performance
measurement, human resource diversity issues, community policing, and domestic
violence. She is a founding member of Research Collaborative on Violence Against
Women. She has received grants to conduct research and reduce domestic violence
in Rhode Island, and in Aroostook County, Maine. Among her reports are: Needs
Assessment: Reducing Domestic Violence Together in Lincoln County. With Steve
Barkan, An Evaluation of the Aroostook County Domestic Violence Problem Solving
Grant, and An Analysis of Domestic Violence in Aroostook County Based upon
Incidence Data. She helped develop an Elderly Abuse Prevention Training for
police officers and adult protective service workers.
Steve Barkan, Professor, Department of Sociology
At UMaine since 1979. Currently conducting needs assessment of domestic violence
services in Lincoln County, ME (with Carolyn Ball)
Sharon Barker, Director, Women’s
Resource Center
Amy Blackstone, Assistant Professor, Department
of Sociology
Sue Bradford, Spruce
Run Association
Eric Brown, Eastern Maine Medical
Center
Margaret Brugman, Graduate Student Assistant
Mary Cathcart, Senior Policy Associate, Margaret
Chase Smith Policy Center
Dorathy Chocensky, Spruce
Run Association
Sandra Coleman, Eastern Maine
Medical Center
Jennifer Crittenden, Research
Assistant, Center
on Aging
Elizabeth Depoy, Professor, School of Social
Work
Elizabeth DePoy, Ph.D., is Professor in the School of Social Work and Coordinator
of Research and Evaluation at the Center for Community Inclusion, Maine's University
Center of Excellence. Her areas of inquiry, teaching and practice include research
and evaluation design, with particular emphasis on participatory and mixed
method strategies, and disability.
Nancy Fishwick, Associate Professor, Nursing
My interest in the area of violence against women grew out of my work as a
family nurse practitioner in rural eastern Kentucky in the early 1980s. At
that time, there were no sanctuaries or crisis services for women in the
mountains; the battered women's program in Lexington, 125 miles away, was
the nearest source of help. I learned a great deal about the facts of daily
life for rural Appalachian women in abusive relationships, the many barriers
to leaving or obtaining help, the many reasons to keep the secret. Since
then, I have conducted research regarding women's decisions to reveal or
conceal abuse during health care visits; my most recent research effort has
been with women in rural central and northern Maine.
Sandy Gardner, Associate Professor, Department
of Sociology
Steven Barkan (Sociology) and I are working on a research proposal to investigate
violence against women within the state of Maine. We plan to conduct a state-wide
survey to learn more about the incidence, dynamics, and help-seeking behaviors,
and response of the criminal justice system to such violence. My research interests
also include emotional abuse and its relationship to physical violence between
intimate partners.
Stephen Gilson, Associate Professor, School
of Social Work
Sue Hamlett, Spruce
Run Association
Sue Hamlett has worked for Spruce Run for nine years. She currently holds the
position of Healthcare Response Coordinator, although she has also served as
School Based Advocacy Coordinator and Resource Development Coordinator. Her
research interests include measuring the efficacy of dating abuse prevention
programs with middle and high school students.
Jeff Hecker, Professor, Chair, Department of Psychology
Kim Huisman, Assistant Professor, Department
of Sociology
Susan Iverson, Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration & Student Affairs at Kent State University. Iverson earned her doctorate in higher educational leadership, with a concentration in women’s studies, from the University of Maine (2005) where she also served as an instructor in higher educational leadership (2002-2006) and women’s studies (2004-2006). Iverson’s scholarly interests include interpersonal violence, diversity and women's issues in higher education, campus cultures and climates, service-learning, and the role of policy in shaping perceptions and culture.
Renate Klein, Associate Professor, Human
Development & Family Studies, College of Education & Human
Development
Renate Klein teaches in family studies and in women’s studies, directs
the University of Maine Safe
Campus Project, and coordinates the European
Network on Conflict, Gender, and Violence. She serves as a research consultant
to community-based and statewide projects addressing victim services and violence
prevention.
Mary Madden, Assistant Research Professor,
College of Education & Human Development
Heather McLaughlin, Undergraduate Student,
Department of Sociology
Jay Peters, Lecturer, School of Social Work,
MSW
Worked as a psychiatric social worker for eight years in Bronx, New York, working
almost exclusively with trauma survivors. During both of my MSW student internships
I also worked with batterer intervention programs, first in the military and
then from a feminist perspective. I am currently working on an Individualized
Ph.D. here in Orono, looking at the impact of domestic violence femicide on
women in the community. The link to my rudimentary web site is www.umaine.edu/sws
Ann Schonberger, Director, Women in the Curriculum
and Women's Studies Program
Dr. Ann K. Schonberger (Ph.D. Mathematics Education) has been the full-time
director of the Women in the Curriculum and Women's Studies Program at the
University of Maine since 1991. In that role her responsibilities include administering
an undergraduate minor and major, as well as interdisciplinary graduate concentrations
at the masters and doctoral levels. Also a part of the program are a curriculum
transformation project, public programming such as a weekly lunch series and
Women's History Celebration, an awards ceremony to Maine women of achievement,
and the Maine Feminist Oral History Project. The focus of the oral history
project and Ann's current research area is the history of Spruce Run, the battered
women's project in Bangor (the nation's third oldest). As a volunteer she has
served on the Spruce Run Steering Committee since 1978. A strength she brings
to any project is her administrative ability, demonstrated by the success of
the many facets of the University program she directs and the success of the
program directors' subgroup of the National Women's Studies Association which
she co-chaired from June 1999 to June 2003. She has also provided leadership
to both the Maine Women's Studies Consortium (public and private institutions
of all kinds) and to the reorganizing of the New England Women's Studies Association.
A third area of strength is her development of co-equal partnerships between
Bangor-area women's agencies and various University activities (speakers, internships,
data collection).
Sandra Sigmon, Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Training,
Department of Psychology
Francine Stark, Spruce
Run Association
I am the Community Response and Training Coordinator for Spruce Run Association,
the domestic violence project serving Penobscot County, Maine. I have a BA
in Rhetoric from Bates College, am a former Peace Corps Volunteer (Dominican
Republic 1982-1984), and have worked in the battered women's movement since
1985. I have developed and provided training on domestic violence and fostering
a coordinated community response to abuse for a wide variety of audiences and
co-teach a course on Domestic Violence and Theology at the Bangor Theological
Seminary with Rev. Dr. Marvin Ellison. I served on the Maine Commission on
Domestic Abuse for 6 years and am a past co-chair of the Maine Coalition to
End Domestic Violence.
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