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Mothering from the Field

Mothering from the Field

The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research

Edited by Bahiyyah Miallah Muhammad

and Mlanie-Angela Neuilly

Rutgers University Press

New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey, and London

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Muhammad, Bahiyyah Miallah, 1980 editor. | Neuilly, Mlanie-Angela, 1977 editor.

Title: Mothering from the field : the impact of motherhood on site-based research / Bahiyyah Miallah Muhammad, Mlanie-Angela Neuilly, editors.

Description: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018043050 | ISBN 9781978800564 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781978800571 (hbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Women college teachers. | Women social scientists. | Women scientists. | ResearchMethodology. | Social sciencesFieldwork. | ScienceFieldwork. | Working mothers. | Work and family.

Classification: LCC LB2332.3.M68 2019 | DDC 378.1/2082dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018043050

A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library.

This collection copyright 2019 by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Individual chapters copyright 2019 in the names of their authors

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To our families, near and far

Jaelah, Jian, and Grace, may you grow up to change the world

Contents

Mlanie-Angela Neuilly and Bahiyyah Miallah Muhammad

Mlanie-Angela Neuilly

Kelly Ward, Lisa Wolf-Wendel, and Lindsey Marco

Stacey L. Camp

Bahiyyah Miallah Muhammad

Kelley Sams

Lydia Zacher Dixon

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros

Bahiyyah Miallah Muhammad

Bahiyyah Miallah Muhammad and Muntaquim Muhammad

Grace Karram Stephenson, John Stephenson, and Joanne Florence Karram

Brian C. Wolf

Mlanie-Angela Neuilly

Mlanie-Angela Neuilly

Anne Hardgrove

Kimberly Garland Campbell

Mlanie-Angela Neuilly

Sarah Kelman

Marylynn Steckley

Deirdre Guthrie

Aprille Ericsson, Dawn Ericsson Provine, Arielle Ericsson White, Mikae Provine, Pierre Ericsson, Bahiyyah Miallah Muhammad, and Mlanie-Angela Neuilly

Bahiyyah Miallah Muhammad

Ryanne Pilgeram

Bahiyyah Miallah Muhammad

Bahiyyah Miallah Muhammad and Mlanie-Angela Neuilly

Mlanie-Angela Neuilly and Bahiyyah Miallah Muhammad

Two Mothers Birthing an Idea...

It all started on Facebook. Isnt that how everything starts these days? Mlanie, a classic Facebook oversharer, had been posting breathtaking pictures of her family while she was conducting field research in Nice, France. These pictures did not involve Mlanies research (medico-legal practices in France and in the United States), thankfully, but rather presented the image of an idyllic summer vacation on the Cte dAzur: a visit to Monaco, her husband and baby playing on the beach, French food, posing by a medieval fountain in a medieval village, and so on. These dreamy posts, however, were accompanied by much less dreamy status updates. The first two updates from the trip to her field site are as follows:

May or may not have broken a toe in the middle of the night... (May 31, 2014)

Let the record show that between the hours of 2 and 5 this morning, my child was a spawn of evil and parenting straight out sucked. Now lets go back to looking at how cute she is and all... (May 31, 2014)

A fairly quick browsing yields such gems as

Sometimes you just have to go to bed with a little bit of vomit in your hair... (June 19, 2014)

Lets go see an autopsy, of a decomposed body, bright and early, happy birthday to me! (June 22, 2014)

You know what you really dont need when you have an infant with unpredictable sleep patterns? A crazy drunk loud neighbor arguing on the phone between 3 and 5 in the morning, especially not after a night of football cheering by some other neighbors... I hate this place. There, I said it. (June 27, 2014)

And for the final post,

Tomorrow is my last day at the medical examiners office! It has been the most challenging six weeks of field research in my life! Now to write something meaningful... (July 10, 2014)

Bahiyyah, a very conservative Facebook sharer, was comforted to see Mlanies posts about her field research experiences because she would also be spending her summer abroad conducting a research project in Africa with her husband and babies. Although she had previous field experiences with her children and family, none of them were as long as a summer. Most of Bahiyyahs preparations for her trip consisted of written journal entries and random conversations with colleagues who had field experiences with babies or knew of others who did. Much of the information derived from these conversations was either not applicable or downright scary. Bahiyyahs early journal notes read,

Today I was told to watch the movie Mary and Martha which is about two mothers who lose their sons to malaria. Not sure this was helpful advice since malaria is an issue in many of my field site locations... (April 8, 2014)

I spoke with a colleague who conducted anthropological research in Africa with her son and they both survived. Im feeling hopeful. (May 3, 2014)

During a presentation a professor spoke of her fieldwork with her daughter in tow. She identified a teenaged sitter in the host country and her baby survived. Although she laughed about it today, she knew her baby was not safe and she vowed to never do that again. (May 8, 2014)

For an entire semester, Bahiyyah was silently battling various doubts about how she would approach her first long-term research experience with her family. It wasnt as if she really had a choice. Being on the tenure track doesnt leave one with much time to collect data and publish on ones findings. It was Bahiyyahs goal to use this summer-long research experience to provide data for the bulk of the publications she would use for her upcoming tenure and promotion application. Mlanies posts served as motivation and a turning point for Bahiyyah. Her last month of preparing for travel became strategic. The strategy would be to complete a successful research trip and coauthor a book-length manuscript from this experience as well as others. This would be in addition to building family memories and bonding in a foreign country in ways that would be cherished for years to come.

Bahiyyah was learning a lot from Mlanie, whether Mlanie knew it or not. Mlanies six weeks of nursing and researching at a morgue spoke of life, not death. It was very inspiring. As a result, Bahiyyahs journal entries shifted to include practical tools for surviving fieldwork with babies:

Identify child friendly locations near research site... (June 1, 2014)

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