UMA Social Science Faculty: Credentials and Interests

Program faculty in social science hold offices on both the Augusta and Bangor campuses but regularly travel/teach on other campuses. We teach in a number of ways, in traditional face-to-face classes but also over ITV, compressed video, online and in hybrid modes that mix more than one of these methods.  Our teaching, research and service interests span a wide variety of subjects, but all hold in common the study of humanity in cognition, in learning, and in association.

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• Professor Kenneth Elliott
  Ph.D. in Psychology, Alliant University, 1976
• Professor Charles Grunder
  Ed.D. in Foundations of Education, Rutgers, 1979
  Ed.S. in Counselor Education, University of Virginia, 1986
• Professor Richard Pare
  M.A. in Counseling Psychology, Murray State University, 1974
• Professor Jon Schlenker
  Ph.D. in Sociology, Berne University, 2000
• Professor Charles Waugh
  Ph.D. in Interpersonal Communication, Kent State University, 1982
• Assistant Professor James Cook
  Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Arizona, 2000
• Assistant Professor Cynthia Dean
  Ed.D. in Literacy Education, University of Maine, 2010
  M.Ed. in Literacy Education, University of Maine, 2005
  M.A. in English from the University of Maine, 2000
• Assistant Professor Lorien Lake-Corral
  Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Arizona, 2011
• Assistant Professor Catherine Turcotte-Seabury
  Ph.D. in Sociology, University of New Hampshire, 2011