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| Published 8 March 2022 |
Because I teach a class called Death, Dying, and Bereavement, I like to read a few titles on that topic every year.
Because I had already read a novel by Amy loom, I decided to pick up a copy of her nonfiction book In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, published in March of 2022 by Random House.
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| Karen in the Conservatory (at Harlaxton Manor, Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK) with a cell phone. June 2022. |
My employer is submitting documents for a project, and she needed my curriculum vitae. I decided to include it here.
Karen D. Austin
Gerontologist
MA earned from 2010 to 2013; part-time teaching conducted 2013 to the present (2023)
My LinkedIn profile documents my work and education prior to 2010. I previously worked in support services in higher education and taught classes in composition, technical writing, tutor training, and surveys of literature (world literature, American literature).
For a few years, I actually was employed outside of a higher education setting when I worked as a technical writer.
Other than those four years working in the private sector, I have been a student and/or an employee at nine different colleges / universities.
At midlife, I shifted my focus to gerontology.
Current Position: Adjunct / Lecturer from Fall 2016
to present in the Gerontology Program under the supervision of Dr. M. Catherine
(Katie) Ehlman Health Professions Center 3068, (812) 461-5332 mehlman@usi.edu within
the College of Nursing and Health Professions at the University of Southern
Indiana, 8600 University Blvd., Evansville, IN 47712.
Courses taught:
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Gerontology 215: Health Care Aspects of
Gerontology
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Gerontology 215 (renamed): Intro to Global Aging
and Healthcare
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Gerontology 321: Sociological Aspects of Aging
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Gerontology 317: Continuum of Care and Community
Services
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Gerontology / Sociology 343: Death, Dying and
Bereavement
