Chapter 3 - From Young and Naïve to Old and Experienced

Summary

Toni C. Antonucci was born and raised in a Brooklyn Italian-American family. Her parents valued an education and encouraged her to get one. She tells of going to local schools with few resources, to Hunter College and then Wayne State University. She plowed through college and graduate school and then became an assistant professor. After four years, she took leave from that position to accept a postdoctoral position and eventually a permanent position at the University of Michigan. She tells of a career that was not well informed by her own knowledge of the academic world but was rather guided by kind, caring, and supportive faculty/colleagues. Recalling a time when women were still quite rare in the faculty ranks, there were good times and bad. These were all anecdotal to the great joy of a research career that focused on social relations across the lifespan and has benefited from continually evolving developments in theory, methods, measures, and results. Her work has involved data collections across several continents and has shown the similarities but also the uniqueness of social relations across time, age, culture, and geography. Toni C. Antonucci was born and raised in a Brooklyn Italian-American family. Her parents valued an education and encouraged her to get one. She tells of going to local schools with few resources, to Hunter College and then Wayne State University. She plowed through college and graduate school and then became an Assistant Professor. After four years she took a leave from that position to accept a post-doctoral position and eventually a permanent position at the University of Michigan. She tells of a career that was not well informed by her own knowledge of the academic world but that was guided by kind, caring, and supportive faculty/colleagues. Recalling a time when women were still quite rare in the faculty ranks, there were good times and bad. These were all anecdotal[NN1]  to the great joy of a research career that focused on social relations across the life span and has benefited from continually-evolving developments in theory, methods, measures, and results. Her work has involved data collections across several continents and has shown the similarities but also the uniqueness of social relations across time, age, culture, and geography.   [NN1]Incidental (?)