James Cook
University of Maine at Augusta Assistant Professor of Social Science
Augusta, Maine
B.A. Oberlin College, Sociology, 1993
Ph.D. University of Arizona, Sociology, 2000
My research program is centered around the confluence of social media, identity and legislative politics. Particular research projects include tracking the structure of social media networks in politics, the development of a social network model of the Maine State Legislature, charting the development of distinction in networks with non-corporeal identity cues, and the application of workplace theories of glass ceilings and escalators to explain patterns of cooperation among legislators along and across lines of gender.
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