Cameron Macdonald
8135 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 261-1031
cmacdon@ssc.wisc.edu
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Office Hours: TR 1-2:30 (Fall'09)
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Ph.D. Brandeis University
Areas of Interest:
Aging, Life Course
General Social Theory
Organizational and Occupational Analysis
Social Psychology and Microsociology
Sociology of Gender
Sociology of Medicine
Sociology of the Family
Affiliations:
Center for Demography of Health and Aging
Gender Program
Havens Center
Sociology
Research Interest Statement:
Cameron Macdonald studies the intersections of Gender, Work, and Family by studying the gendered work of families. Her primary interest is in Care Work, the paid and unpaid labor to care for children, the sick, and the elderly, with a particular interest in that care that lies at the blurry boundaries of paid and unpaid work, of labor and of labors of love. To that end, she is currently completing Shadow Mothers: Nannies, au pairs, and the social construction of mothering which explores how working mothers and their childcare workers negotiate the division of labor between them. Her next research project, The Home as Hospital, will explore another intersection of public and private care work: the work of families providing high-tech healthcare in their homes, their challenges, and their relations with professional health care providers.
She teaches courses on Gender, Care Work, Sociology of Families, Social Theory, and Qualitative Methods.
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