He earned his bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Maine and his master’s and doctorate from the University of New Hampshire. His teaching career has included full-time appointments at Assumption College, University of Maine at Farmington, and Saint Anselm College. Dr. Talbot joined the Anna Maria College faculty in the fall of 2007. Richard has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and has had several articles published in scholarly books. His research interests include race and ethnic relations, military sociology, crime and inequality. Talbot is also interested in the manufacture of deviance, an area in which he has published in a previous college.