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Amy Fried is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Professor Fried received her B.A. from San Francisco State University and her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. As Associate Dean, she supports the graduate education and research missions of the college. Professor Fried is also a Faculty Fellow of the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy and the University of Maine's coordinator for the Maine Public Policy Scholars Program.
Professor Fried's current research focuses on the development of polling and survey research in twentieth century America. This research considers ideological commitments and controversies related to polls, as well as the crucial influence of institutions and institution builders. Fried has also investigated how media and political elites communicate to and portray the public. In this area, Fried has analyzed constructions of public opinion in response to coverage of the Iran-Contra affair, elites' strategic efforts to promote distrust in government, as well as the political and media dynamics of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Professor Fried has written about political values (such as heroism, patriotism, and tolerance); social movement organizations concerned with the environment and sexual violence; abortion politics; and social capital scholars' use of the ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville. Professor Fried has also conducted research on the collective memory in a Smithsonian exhibit on September 11 and on the media’s linkages between terrorism and Iraq prior to the start of the war.
Fried's research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Quarterly, Communication Review, Congress and the Presidency, Environmental Politics, Gender & Society, Political Analysis, Political Communication, Social Science Quarterly, Women and Politics, and as chapters in numerous edited volumes. In addition, she is the author of Muffled Echoes: Oliver North and the Politics of Public Opinion (Columbia University Press, 1997) and co-author of Tolerance for Diversity of Beliefs: A Secondary Curriculum Unit, (Boulder, Colorado: Social Science Education Consortium, 1993). Fried's paper, "The Strange Disappearance of Alexis de Tocqueville in the Social Capital Debate," received the 2000 John Donovan Award for the best paper presented at the New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting.
At the University of Maine, Fried has taught courses on American Political Thought, American Public Opinion, Politics and Time, Political Behavior and Participation, Public Opinion and the Media, American Political Culture, and Women and Politics.
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