Cameron G. Beckett

Medical Sociologist · Dementia Care Research

I'm a TL1 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Health and the Social Sciences and the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. I study how family caregivers support people living with Alzheimer's and related dementias, asking how someone gets "good" at managing constant and evolving types of strain. My work combines in-depth interviews with quantitative analysis of national survey data, and I look at this topic cross-culturally, comparing how caregivers in Italy and the rural United States learn new skills, build expertise, and reformulate their own lives in the process. I have a strong interest in grounded theory and situational analysis (specifically maps), which can be found in my research section (eventually). I completed my PhD in Sociology at the University of Bologna in 2025. Outside of research, I occasionally write theater sketches and play banjo and harmonica (poorly). Please also note that many of the links on this website lead to nowhere. This is something I intend to resolve and update sporadically.

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