I found my professional, scholarly voice, so to speak, several times throughout my career. The first time occurred while a doctoral student at the University of Chicago. Simply put, everything came together when completing my historically-oriented dissertation, which focused on the role of the federal government in social welfare provisioning in the early twentieth century. Early drafts of the dissertation were quite convoluted and extensive. I felt sorry for Lynn Vogel who as chair of my dissertation committee had to…..
