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About MeMy life as an academic has not followed a traditional path. Prior to coming to USM, I was a well-established expert in Maine, and in the New England region, on child mental health and had served a four year term in state government as the Director of Children’s Mental Health Services. My work involved taking responsibility for closing the Children’s Psychiatric Hospital at Pineland, the state’s only psychiatric hospital for children, as well as leading the development of the first comprehensive state-wide system of care for children in need of mental health services.I arrived at USM in 1976, as a faculty member in the School of Social Work, and in 2002 moved to the Department of Sociology. I am also a faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program, where I served as Director for three years from 1999 to 2002. And from 2002 to 2005, I served a three year term as Interim Dean of USM’s College of Arts and Sciences. In addition, I was invited to be the first joint Visiting Scholar at the Center for Social Policy and the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies at UMass Boston for the 2005 – 2006 academic year, a position similar to one I held in 1998, when I was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Wellesley College Center for Women, Center for Research on Women. In 1995 I held the position of Academic Visitor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Degree-wise, I hold a B.A in Sociology from Keuka College, an M.S.W. in community organization from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. in Social Policy from the Heller School for Public Policy and Management, Brandeis University. |
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