Professor, Researcher, Mother

Today I spoke on a panel about balancing motherhood with being an academic. The key to what Lance & I try to do is incorporate much of our women’s page work with our family.

It was a tradition we had before we had children as we traveled to archives and went through papers together. We would then try to add on a mini-vacation. In the photo above I am in the Dallas home of women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry. Lance and I stayed with Vivian and her husband Curtis before we moved to Orlando.

When we discovered that we were having our first son, we decided that Curtis was a great role model and that became our son’s name. His middle name is James – named for the great editor James Bellows. Jim was a champion for women at the newspapers he edited.

After Curtis was born, we traveled back to Dallas to see Vivian honored and so that our Curtis could meet his namesake.

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