Program Coordinator
Lorien Lake-Corral
Title: Associate Professor of Sociology
Email: lorien.lakecorral@maine.edu
Office: Jewett Hall 112
VM: 207-621-3481
Haley A. Brown
Student Services Coordinator, Coordinator of Career Connections
Program Liaison for: Liberal Studies, Social Science, Trauma-Informed Emergency Management
UMA Augusta Campus
Phone: 207.621.3130
Email: hbrown120@maine.edu
Patrick Cheek
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Education Ph.D., University of Minnesota (2015). M.S., University of Maine (2009). B.A., University of Maine at Augusta (2007).
James M. Cook
Associate Professor Of Sociology
Social network analysis, Social media, Political sociology, Sociology of gender
Office Hours Wednesdays 9 AM - 3 PM via Zoom (see course syllabi or send e-mail for link information) Education B.A. Oberlin College, Sociology, 1993 M.A. University of Arizona, Sociology, 1996 Ph.D. University of Arizona, Sociology, 2000 Recent Publications [see current curriculum vitae for full list of publications] Duguay, Ashley, Todd Loughead and James M. … Read More
Laura Kati Corlew
Associate Professor of Psychology, TEM Program Coordinator
Dr. Corlew joined the UMA Social Science Program faculty in 2014. She teaches a variety of courses in Psychology (PSY) and Social Science (SSC). She has served as Faculty Coordinator of Civic Engagement since 2015, and has coordinated UMA campus community gardens and advised UMA garden clubs since 2016. She is currently the Coordinator of … Read More
Katherine Darling
Assistant Professor Of Sociology
I am a sociologist working across the boundaries of medical sociology, feminist science studies, public health and bioethics. I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the UMA Social Science Program and affiliated at University of Maine Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering and the Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation at Maine Medical … Read More
Charles S. Grunder
Professor Of Psychology
Charles S. Grunder earned an Ed.D in Foundations of Education from Rutgers University and an M.A. in Psychology from Catholic University. He has done post-doctoral work at the Center for Personal and Career Development at the University of Virginia, where he earned an Ed.S in Counselor Education, and at the Multimodal Therapy Institute in Princeton, … Read More
Lorien T. Lake-Corral
Associate Professor of Sociology
Lorien Lake-Corral is an Assistant Professor of Social Science and is the Coordinator of the Social Science Program. She earned a B.A. from SUNY Geneseo in Sociology and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona (also in Sociology). Dr. Lake-Corral’s primary interests are in teaching and learning in sociology and her research interests … Read More
Valerie Rubinsky
Assistant Professor of Communication
Interpersonal Communication; Intimate Relationships; Health Communication; Intergroup Communication.
Academic & Teaching Interests Valerie’s research, which has appeared in more than a dozen peer-reviewed journal publications and 26 competitive conference presentations, explores how individuals manage challenging conversations with important others, primarily about intimacy and intimate health. Specifically, she has studied the communicative processes of personal and group identity management within the contexts of romantic … Read More