Teaching & administrative responsibilities: Fall 2008- Winter 2009
• Fall term: On leave with SSHRC Therese Casgrain Fellowship
• Winter term: Doctoral seminar (co-taught with Neil Gerlach and Bruce Curtis)
• Dept representative for the upcoming meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (as part of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Carleton University, June 2009).
Current research projects
• SSHRC Standard research grant (2008-2012): Gendered generations: Work, care and consumption (Principal Investigator; Affiliated with the UK network Timescapes(co-directors Janet Holland and Bren Neale); International collaborators: Janet Holland, Julia Brannen, Natasha Mauthner.
• Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) (2008-2010) Support for Fathers Affected by Postpartum Depression (Co-Investigator; Principal Investigator Nicole Letourneau).
• Therese Casgrain Research Fellowship (2008-09): Gender, Earning and Caring: What Supports Primary Breadwinning Mothers? (Research Assistant: Karen Foster).
• Carleton University Research Achievement Award Fellowship (2008-09): Grief Observed: Literary and Social Science Explorations of Gender and Grief
• SSSHC-funded CURA (Community–University Research Alliance) (2004-2008) “Fatherhood Involvement Research Alliance” (Co-Investigator; Principal Investigator Kerry Daly; Research Assistants: Mike Graydon and Oren Howlett)
• SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2004-2008): Balancing Cash and Care: Fathers’ Use of Parental Leave in Canada. (Principal Investigator; Research Assistant: Lindsey McKay).
Recently Completed Research Projects
• American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Conference Grant, Fathering Across Diversity and Adversity, Funded by the Annals of the Social and Political Sciences (Co-applicants: Frank Fursternberg, Rosalind Edwards).
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC-UK) & the Social Science Research Council (SSRC-USA) Visiting Fellowship, London (UK) South Bank University (Families & Social Capital Group) (2005-2006) Families and Social Capital.
• SSHRC Standard Research Grant (1998-2002) Fathers as Primary Caregivers in Canada (Principal Investigator).
About my research...
My current research interests are three-fold:
• (i) Contributing to theoretical and empirical understandings of care work mothering and fathering, and the evolving field of the sociology of personal life;
• (ii) Exploring epistemological, methodological and ethical issues involving in attempting to know and represent the narratives of others;
• (iii) Drawing substantive and theoretical links between sociology, narrative, fiction and creative non-fiction.
For many years, the empirical terrain of my work has focused on attempting to know and write about the ordinary and extraordinary lives of women and men, and their everyday processes of balancing caring and earning. More precisely, I have been interested in making empirical and theoretical sense of issues of: relationality, responsibility and autonomy; embodiment in diverse sites, spaces and times; masculinities and femininities; care and justice; and intersections between gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality and age.
My recent interests are in: issues of care, work, and consumption; time (historical, generational, biographical); narrative analysis; the links between fiction and sociology; theorizing subjectivities and emotions; and reflexive sociology. Of late, one of my goals is to write sociology that is critical, accessible, and that moves people in a small fraction of the way that an Alice Munro short story moves me.
For a more complete bio, please visit my web site.
http://http-server.carleton.ca/~adoucet/biography.html
Student supervision
PhD students:
• Lynda Harling Stalker (Co-supervisor with Janet Siltanen): Crafting Work: Class analysis of Newfoundland Craftspeople; Defended April 2005; (Currently Assistant Professor, St FX University).
• Karen Foster (Co-supervisor with Janet Siltanen) (Topic area: Internal Migration, Narrative Analysis, and Transitions to Adulthood).
• Mike Graydon, (OUT)standing in Their Field: A Qualitative Study of Gays of Ottawa, 1971-1995, ABD.
• Joanne Pocock, Sociology, (Co-supervisor with Wallace Clement): Social Economy and the Quiet Transformation of Voluntarism in Quebec’s Aging English-speaking Communities: A Mixed Methods Study of the Eastern Townships Region, ABD.
• TamySuperle: Pleasure and Fear in the City: women’s mobility in urban public places, ABD.
• Susan Salhany (co-supervisor with Bruce Curtis): Governing Symbolic Displays in Northern Ireland: An Analysis of the Parading Ritual and the Regulation of Cultural/Political Signifiers
PhD Committee Member (current)
Christian Caron; Kelly Landon; Wayne Miller (Wilfred Laurier University); Lisa Smith; Dale Spencer; Sophie Tamas; Kevin Walby
MA Students:
• Esther Baum (MA, Sociology) Prenatal Genetic Testing: The moral imperative of giving birth to the perfect baby (2008)
• Sylie Polk, (MA Sociology) Jobs on the Line: Closing Down the Smith Falls Hershey Chocolate Factory (2008).
• Jill Bucklaschuk (MA Sociology) “Women Doing Gender Down on the Farm: Rural Ideology, Hard Work, and Being Less Feminine and Less Masculine”. Research Essay defended May 2007.
• Aimee Campeau (MA, Sociology) Working in the Shadow of the Margins: Girl-Child Domestic and Informal Labor in Bangladesh, Defended September 2006.
• Kelly McDonald (MA, Sociology, co-supervised with Janet Siltanen) Childcare policy and the division of paid and unpaid labour in Quebec and Canada. Defended September 2003.
• Jen Budney, (MA, Anthropology, with distinction, co-supervised with Valda Blundell). Hiding the real under the formal: the secret power of whiteness in Brazilian contemporary art. Defended January 2003.
• Mary Ann Jenkins (MA, Canadian Studies) An Evaluation of the LEAP Program for Single Mothers in Ontario. Defended January 2002
• Sarah Marceau (MA, Sociology), The Feminist Stay-at-Home Mother: Contradiction or Utopia?" Defended September 2000.
Publications
Please visit my web site for a complete list of publications and access to pdfs.
http://http-server.carleton.ca/~adoucet/
Recent Publications 2006-2009
2009 (forthcoming or in press)
• Doucet, A. McKay, L. and Tremblay, D-G. (in press, 2009) "Parental Leave Policy in Canada" in Peter Moss and Sheila Kammerman, The Politics of Parental Leave Policies: Children, Parenting, Gender and the Labour Market,Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
• Doucet, A. (in press, 2009) Dad and Baby in the First Year: Gendered Responsibilities and Embodiment, The Annals of the Political and Social Sciences.
• Doucet, A. (in press, 2009) “What Impedes Fathers’ Participation in Care Work: Theorizing the Community as an Institutional Arena”. In Catherine Krull and JustynaSempruch (Eds). Demystifying the Family/Work Contradiction: Challenges and Possibilities. Vancouver: UBC Press.
• Doucet, A. (in press, 2009) “Taking Off the Maternal Lens: Conversing with Sara Ruddick on Men and Mothering” in Andrea O’Reilly (Ed.) 21st Century Motherhood. Irvington, NY. Columbia University Press.
• Doucet, A (forthcoming 2009) Paid and Unpaid Work: Linking Households, Workplaces, the State, and Communities. In DavidCheal (ed) New Canadian Families (second edition) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Doucet, A (forthcoming 2009) “Fathers and Fathering” in A. O’Reilly and J. Golson (Eds) Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Sage Publications.
2008:
• Book:Siltanen, J and Doucet, A. (2008) Gender Relations in Canada: Intersectionallity and Beyond. Don Mills: Oxford University Press.
• Doucet, A. (2008) “’On the Other Side of (her) Gossamer Wall” Reflexive and Relational Knowing,” Qualitative Sociology, 31, 73-87.
• Doucet, A. and Mauthner, N.S. (2008) “What can be Known and How? Narrated Subjects and the Listening Guide”. Qualitative Research (Special issue on Narrative Methodology), 8 (3): 399-409.
• Mauthner, N.S. and Doucet, A. (2008) "'Knowledge once divided can be hard to put together again': an epistemological critique of collaborative and team-based research practices". Sociology, 42 (5), 955-969.
• Doucet A. and Mauthner, N. S. (2008) “Feminist approaches to Qualitative Interviews” in PerttiAlasuutari, Julia Brannen and Leonard Bickman (Eds). Handbook of Social Research Methods. London: Sage, pp. 327-342.
• Doucet, A. and Tremblay, D.G. (2008) “Leave Policy and Research: Canada” in P. Moss and M. O’Brien (Eds.). International Review of Leave Policies and Related Research. London: Department of Trade and Industry Research Series, 57).
2007:
• Mauthner, N. S and Doucet, A. “Reflexive Accounts and Accounts of Reflexivity in Qualitative Data Analysis” (reprinted article from original published in 2003 in Sociology). In Alan Bryman (Ed.) Qualitative Research 2. London: Sage.
• Doucet, A. and Merla L. (2007) “Stay-at Home-Fathering: A Strategy for Balancing Work and Home in Canadian and Belgian Families”. Community, Work and Family. 10 (4): 453-471.
• Doucet, A. (2007) “Families and Work” in David Cheal (ed) New Canadian Families. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 136-153.
• Doucet, A. (2007) Fathering/Fatherhood” in Michael Flood, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Bob Pease and Keith Pringle (Eds.) Routledge International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. London: Routledge; pp. 192-196.
2006:
• Book: Doucet, A. (2006) Do Men Mother? Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Awarded the John Porter Tradition of Excellence Award from the Canadian Sociology Association).
• Doucet A and Mauthner, N.S. (2006) “Feminist Epistemologies and Methodologies” in in Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck (Eds.) Handbook of 21st Century Sociology. Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 327-342.
• Doucet, A. (2006) ’Estrogen-filled worlds’: Fathers as primary caregivers and embodiment”. The Sociological Review. 23 (4), pp. 695-715,
• Doucet, A. and Tremblay, D.G. (2006) "Leave Policy and Research: Canada" in P. Moss and M. O’Brien (Eds.) International Review of Leave Policies and Related Research. London: Department of Trade and Industry Research Series, 57.
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