Cameron G. Beckett

Medical Sociologist · Dementia Care Research

I'm a recent PhD graduate from the University of Bologna. I study how informal caregivers support people living with Alzheimer’s and related dementias. My work combines qualitative inquiry with mixed-methods analysis to understand caregiver stress, cultural expectations, and lay expertise; asking how someone gets 'good' at managing constant and continuous crisis. I look at this topic cross-culturally, comparing how caregivers in Italy and caregivers in the United States learn new skills and reformulate their own lives. In July of 2025, I'll be starting as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Health and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. I have a strong interest in grounded theory and situational analysis (specifically maps) which can be found in my research section. I also occasionally write theater sketches and play banjo and harmonica (poorly).

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