Category: Family & Field Study

New article re family dynamics in anthropology!

10/1/2021

This new article published today in American Journal of Human Biology compares tenure-track and tenured anthropologists by gender with regard to the obstacles in navigating family and fieldwork. Doctoral student Lisa Brazelton and undergraduate Lauren Landgraf are in my lab, and this is the first peer-reviewed academic paper for both of them! This is part of a special issues called "#Hackademics: Hacks Toward Succeeding in Academia" that I coedited with Cara Ocobock.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23686

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First "Family and the Field" Study Paper Out Now in PLoS ONE

9/19/2018

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Family-career balance (x-axis) by perceived stress (y-axis) among professional and graduate student anthropologists by binary gender.

We're pleased to announce that the first paper from the "Family and the Field" study is out in open access journal PLoS ONE. This was a collaboration between me, Dr. Michaela Howells of UNCW, and our newly minted HBERG PhD Max Stein. The first set of findings from this massive set of survey data indicates:

Most professional and graduate student anthropologists come from households with at least one graduate degree.
White men are more likely to become tenured professors, despite larger numbers of women entering anthropology (for decades running, according to recent paper by Trudy Turner and colleagues!).
Anthropologists report significant lack of family-career balance and high stress (see figure above) regardless of socioeconomic status or background.

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New article re family dynamics in anthropology!

First "Family and the Field" Study Paper Out Now in PLoS ONE

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