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Portsmouth Science Café Spring Series 2014: April 23, 2014: Changing Families, Changing Communities: A Twenty Year Perspective
Hosted
by University of New Hampshire faculty member Cameron Wake at the Portsmouth
Brewery’s Jimmy LaPanza Lounge, the Portsmouth Science Café provides a unique
opportunity for Seacoast residents to feed their minds with contemporary
science in the relaxed atmosphere of a pub. The discussions, which are free and
open to all, run from 6-8 p.m.; doors open at 5 p.m. for food and drinks.
April 23, 2014: Changing
Families, Changing Communities: A Twenty Year Perspective
Sociologists
Mil Duncan and Kristin Smith lead a discussion on the changing nature of
families, from declining blue collar work to wives as bread winners and
economic recession.
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Cynthia
"Mil" Duncan is founding director of the Carsey Institute at UNH, which she
oversaw from 2004 to 2011. Currently, Duncan is the research director at AGree, an initiative bringing
together diverse interests to transform food and agricultural policy in the
United States. Widely recognized for her research on rural poverty and changing
rural communities, Duncan was a sociologist at UNH for 11 years before leaving
to become director of the Ford Foundation’s Community and Resource Development
Unit in 2000.
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Smith is a family
demographer at the Carsey Institute and research assistant professor of
sociology at UNH. Her research interests focus on women’s labor force
participation and work and family policy. Smith has examined women’s
employment, earnings, and wives’ contributions to overall family economic
well-being; how families cope with economic turmoil due to either economic
restructuring or recessions; the low-wage caregiving workforce; and workplace
flexibility and policy.
