LEWISTON – The following faculty members from the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College have recently delivered scholarly presentations or had works published:

Dr. Christy Hammer, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences, has co-authored an article, “Science Studies Across General Education: A Broader View of Scientific Literacy,” published in a recent edition of Peer Review, a collection of scholarly works published regularly by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

Hammer earned her doctoral degree in sociology from the University of New Hampshire. Prior to coming to USM/L-A, Hammer served as associate professor of education and director of secondary education at Rivier College in Nashua, N.H. She has also worked as a consultant in social studies and in minority affairs/civil rights for the N.H. Department of Education.

Hammer is teaching sociology and deviance and social control and is also working with teacher education students in a course on how to teach social studies at the elementary and middle school level.

Dr. Eve A. Raimon, associate professor of arts and humanities and USM/L-A faculty chairwoman, has been awarded a contract by University Press of New England to co-edit a collection titled “Harriet Wilson’s New England: Race, Writing and Region.”

In addition, she, along with USM/L-A colleagues Rose Cleary and Robert Schaible, delivered a paper titled “Neutrality is Just Another Word: Advocacy and Academic Freedom in the Classroom” at the American Association of Colleges and Universities annual conference held earlier this year.

Raimon earned her Ph.D. in English and American literature from Brandeis University in 1995. Her book, The “Tragic Mulatta Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth Century Antislavery Literature,” was published by Rutgers University Press in 2004. She teaches courses in ethnic studies, gender studies, popular culture, critical thinking, literary theory, critical race theory and expository writing.

Jan Phillips, instructor of social and behavioral sciences, delivered a conference paper, “Out of Place: Thoughts on the Concept of Placelessness,” at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting in Boston earlier this year.

She also delivered a paper, “Accomplishing Family through Consumption,” at the Child and Teen Consumption 2006 biennial conference held recently in Copenhagen.

Phillips, who earned her graduate degree from Brown University, teaches courses in sociology, the family, children and society and senior seminar. She chairs the College for ME Androscoggin Steering Committee, a collaboration among leaders from education, business and economic development who are committed to identifying and addressing barriers that prevent area residents from pursuing or achieving their higher education goals.