
Amy Blackstone
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About Amy
Blackstone’s expertise lies in the areas of families; gender in the workplace; activism and volunteering; and qualitative research methods. A primary focus of her work is the study of workplace harassment. She has served as a consultant on workplace sexual harassment cases; and her research on this topic has been cited in a variety of venues including Maine Public Radio; Marie Claire magazine; MSNBC; and Fox News. In her latest research; a study of voluntarily childless adults; she seeks to make sense of the experiences of families without children in relation to community wellbeing; workplace and gender equality; sustainability; and what it means to be “a family.” Blackstone’s service at the University of Maine includes helping to promote community-engaged teaching and scholarship; and working to build and sustain University-community relationships. Together with several collaborators; she has worked with the Orono Village Association in Orono; Maine to help implement a marketing action plan that aims to bring University affiliates and their guests to downtown.