Amanda Barusch
{{Short description|Emeritus professor of social work in New Zealand}}
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Amanda Smith Barusch is an American–New Zealand academic, and is professor emerita at the University of Otago, specialising in social work and gerontology. She is also an author and has authored or co-authored six books.
Academic career
Barusch is from California.{{Cite web |last=Work |first=Social and Community |date=2019-01-12 |title=Emeritus Professor Amanda Barusch |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/social-community-work/people/emeritus-professor-amanda-barusch |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}} She completed a Bachelor of Arts in psychology at Reed College and a Master and Doctorate of Social Welfare both at the University of California, Berkeley. Her thesis was on the relationships between formal services and family caregivers for frail elderly people in different living arrangements.{{Cite thesis |title=Who cares: the relationship between family assistance and formal services provided to the frail elderly in case-managed and traditional service environments |last=Barusch |first=Amanda Smith |type=PhD thesis |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |url=https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991037892759706532 |date=1985 |access-date=15 April 2024}} Barusch also has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, which she earned from the University of Utah in 2015.{{Cite thesis |title=Aphasia |last=Barusch |first=Amanda Smith |type=MFA thesis |publisher=University of Utah |url=https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s219t6 |date=2015 |access-date=15 April 2024}} Barusch joined the faculty of the College of Social Work at the University of Utah, where she worked from 1985 to 2019.{{Cite web |title=Amanda Barusch - College of Social Work - The University of Utah |url=https://socialwork.utah.edu/emeriti/barusch-amanda.php |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=socialwork.utah.edu}} She was Director of the Social Research Institute and Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Studies.
Barusch was appointed to Otago as their first professor of social work in 2007,{{Cite web |last=Clarke |first=Ali |date=2015-07-05 |title=Educating social workers |url=https://otago150years.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/educating-social-workers/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |website=University of Otago 1869-2019 |language=en}} giving her inaugural professorial address in 2008.{{Cite web |last=Otago |first=University of |date=2018-01-19 |title=Inaugural Professorial Lectures 2008 Archive |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/inaugural-professorial-lectures/inaugural-professorial-lectures-archive/inaugural-professorial-lectures-2008-archive |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}} Barusch's research focuses on gerontology and social work, covering issues such as problems experienced by elderly caregivers, gender differences in caregiving, and experiences of ageism.{{Cite web |last=Barusch |first=Amanda |date=2024-01-08 |title=Why are older people disappearing? |url=http://newsroom.co.nz/2024/01/09/insidious-ageing-why-are-old-people-disappearing/ |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=Newsroom |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2023-11-18 |title=Amanda Smith Barusch: embracing the rage that comes with age |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018915922/amanda-smith-barusch-embracing-the-rage-that-comes-with-age |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}} She has published six books as author or co-author, with her most recent being Aging Angry: Making Peace with Rage, published by Oxford University Press in 2023. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Poverty and Health and Social Work, and as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work.
Selected works
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Books
- {{Cite book |last=Barusch |first=Amanda Smith |title=Love Stories of Later Life: A Narrative Approach to Understanding Romance |date=2008-03-13 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195314045.003.0001 |access-date=2024-04-15 |publisher=Oxford University Press, New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-531404-5}}
- {{Cite book |last=Barusch |first=Amanda Smith |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197584644.001.0001 |title=Aging Angry: Making Peace with Rage |date=2023-12-14 |publisher=Oxford University Press, New York |isbn=0-19-758464-0}}
- {{Cite book |last=Barusch |first=Amanda Smith |url= |title=Older Women in Poverty: Private Lives and Public Policies |date=1994-01-01 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0826179609}}
Journal articles
- {{CiteQ|Q125164147}}
- {{CiteQ|Q38240831}}
- {{CiteQ|Q68038775}}
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- {{CiteQ|Q111188937}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unu0w_JnJXY Perspectives on Narrative], by Amanda Barusch, 14 January 2015, via YouTube
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:Academic staff of the University of Otago
Category:University of Utah faculty
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:University of Utah alumni
Category:Social work education
Category:American gerontologists