Author: clairekampdush
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Work and family and “one night a week”
I know there has been a lot written about academia and work-life balance – this recent post in Inside Higher Ed tries to get at why academics work so much. In general, the meme about academics working constantly doesn’t really resonate with me [I should also mention that the meme about professors never working also…
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Writing Group
As the mother of four (2 sons born in grad school, 2 sons born on the tenure track), people are always asking me “how do you do it?” [Note, my husband never gets asked this question, which is a whole other blog post on gender attitudes.] My go to answer is always “high quality husband,…
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How to publish your paper rejected by Demography in the Journal of Family Psychology
One of the best things about being in an interdisciplinary department is that you can publish where you want – there is not a group of “top journals” that you have to push your papers in. My colleagues in Sociology are trying to get papers in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and…
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Welcome!
Welcome to my website where you can learn more about my work, and who I am working with, as well as check out my blog. I am a family scholar and demographer. I do not identify with a single social science discipline. Rather, I used multiple disciplinary approaches in my research, from social psychology to…
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Welcome to Adventures in Human Development and Family Science!
I have been thinking about writing a blog for a while now. But, with so many great blogs (Family Inequality, Pearls of Wisdom: The Blog, Professional Development, Sociological Images) I wasn’t sure what I could contribute. There are always things I would like to suggest – i.e. check out this great post on writing an…
Claire Kamp Dush 