USM Authors Honored
University of Southern Maine President Richard L. Pattenaude and Provost Joseph Wood held a reception on April 30 to honor 24 USM faculty who had produced new books, radio plays and music scores during this academic year. The reception included presentations of framed covers from the books, CDs and other publications, which are now displayed in the reception area of the seventh floor of the School of Law Building.
Book topics ranged from Abraham Peck’s, “The Holocaust and History: The Known, The Unknown, The Disputed, and the Reexamined” to Richard Maiman’s, “Divorce Lawyers at Work: Varieties of Professionalism in Practice,” to Julie Canniff’s, “Cambodian Refugees' Pathways to Success: Developing a Bi-Cultural Identity.”
Books on similar topics demonstrate USM’s strength in areas like environmental research, public policy, and New England culture. In the policy and science area, they include “Economic Losses from Marine Pollution: A Handbook for Assessment,” by Douglas Ofiara, assistant professor of public policy and management; “Groundwater Science,” by Charles Fitts, associate professor of geosciences; “Cultural Resources Archaeology: An Introduction” and “Practicing Archaeology: A Training Manual for Cultural Resources Archaeology,” by Robert Sanford, associate professor of environmental science and policy; and “The Certified Quality Engineer Handbook,” by H. Fred Walker, associate professor of technology.
There are three new books from USM on New England: Provost
Joseph Wood’s, “The New England Village,” “Imagining New England:
Explorations of Regional Identity From the Pilgrims to the
Mid-Twentieth Century,” by Joseph Conforti, professor of American
and New England Studies; and “Landscape With Figures: Nature
and Culture in New England,” by Kent Ryden, associate professor
of American and New England Studies.
Also in the humanities are the books, “Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives” by David Carey, Jr., assistant professor of history; and a set of three philosophical explorations by Joseph Grange, professor of history, “Nature: An Environmental Cosmology,” “The City: An Urban Cosmology,” and “Being and Dialectic: Metaphysics and a Cultural Presence.” And Professor of Philosophy Julien Murphy has written a book on “Gender Struggles: Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism.” On family issues, Constance Ostis, assistant professor of social work, wrote, “What's Happening in Our Family?: Understanding Sexual Abuse Through Metaphors,” and by Richard West, professor of communication, the book, “Perspectives on Family Communication.” On government policies affecting families, there are “Child Care, Money and Maine: Implications for Federal
and State Policy” by Allyson Dean of USM’s Child Care Services and “The Family Support Act of 1988: A Case Study of Welfare Policy in the 1980s,” by Luisa Deprez, associate professor of social work.
On education, new books are “Unfolding Bodymind: Exploring Possibility Through
Education” by Johnna Haskell, assistant professor of professional
development, and “The Spirit of Teaching” by Desi Larson,
assistant professor of education, and E. Michael Brady, professor
of human resource development.
In the arts, William Steele, associate professor of theatre, had his radio
play, “The Shoot,” about the culling of an island’s deer herd,
produced on Maine Public Radio, and Thomas Power, also an
associate professor of theatre, had written two plays, “Christmas
Cove” and “Grannia.” J. Mark Scearce, assistant professor
of music, had written three new compositions, “American Triptych,”
“Memoria” and “Be Anxious for Nothing.”
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