Laura E Hirshfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 127234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura E Hirshfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura E |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirshfield |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSHFIELD L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0894-2994 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 202 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
(How) does majoring in the social sciences and humanities relate to specialty choice?
BACKGROUND: Scholars have previously demonstrated a link between backgrounds in the social sciences and humanities and humanistic qualities, yet the literature exploring the relationship between undergraduate college major and specialty choice is equivocal, in part because previous studies have rarely used nationally representative datasets. Further, there are many potential mediating factors that may influence this relationship. METHODS: This cr…
I get to relate to my patients
While the U.S. Latinx population has rapidly increased in the past 30 years, the number of Latinx physicians has not kept pace. Latinx students are often motivated to pursue medicine to serve those in their communities, which benefits Latinx community health outcomes through patient-clinician cultural and linguistic concordance. However, significant barriers often prevent Latinx people from successfully navigating the transition to and through me…
A view from the top
Special issue introduction
How Do Academic Medicine Pathways Differ for Underrepresented Trainees and Physicians? A Critical Scoping Review
Developing Evidence for Equitable Assessment Characteristics Based on Clinical Learner Preferences Using Discrete Choice Experiments
Reexamining racism, sexism, and identity taxation in the academy
Amid the 2020 COVID pandemic and officer-involved deaths of numerous Black Americans, US colleges and universities stated commitments to improve ethnoracial diversity and address structural racism.This type of diversityrelated work, which fell mostly upon faculty of colour, was not new, however.In 1994, Padilla coined the term "cultural taxation" to describe the disproportionate labour faculty of colour are expected to perform.Hirshfield and Jose…
The promise of a health professions education imagination
Addressing Barriers to Accessing Head Start Programs via the Medical Home
Training for Professional Uncertainty
PURPOSE: Uncertainty in medical decision making is a well-described phenomenon, and numerous scholars have acknowledged and illustrated the process of training medical students to grapple with this aspect of medical practice. While clinical uncertainty has been defined previously, medical trainees face additional forms of uncertainty beyond the clinical setting that have not, as yet, been investigated empirically. One area in which uncertainty ca…
The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology
From 1940 to 1980, studies of medical education were foundational to sociology, but attention shifted away from medical training in the late 1980s. Recently, there has been a marked return to this once pivotal topic, reflecting new questions and stakes. This article traces this resurgence by reviewing recent substantive research trends and setting the agenda for future research. We summarize four current research foci that reflect and critically …
A Case for Double-Blind Review
To the Editor: At the Association of American Medical Colleges 2019 Learn Serve Lead conference, I was pleased to attend a fantastic session, “A Conversation Among Readers, Editors, and Authors About the Medical Education Literature,” hosted by several editors of the major journals within medical education. However, I was troubled by one portion of the discussion about double- versus single-blind peer review. The majority of the journal editors w…
Detached concern
Tokenism
Tokenism is the symbolic inclusion of numerical minorities within a group, usually for the sake of appearances rather than for inclusiveness or true diversity. Tokens (due to their race, gender, or other social group membership) experience myriad issues related to their token status, particularly heightened visibility, exaggeration of their differences, and role encapsulation. In addition, tokens are often expected to do extra work due to their i…
I Just Did Everything Physically Possible to Get in There”
This ethnographic study focuses on how men and women chemistry graduate students are socialized to “do masculinity” differently in scientific contexts. Using results from nine months of observation and 40 semistructured interviews from five labs at a research-intensive university, I argue that the link between men, science, and academia may allow men, but not women, graduate students leeway in establishing their claim to scientific authority. Thu…
She's not good with crying’
This paper explores how gender influences the way that faculty members are held accountable to gendered societal expectations related to scientists, faculty members, and leaders. In particular, women faculty members in the sciences, particularly those who lead large research groups, may be at a triple disadvantage: they must act in ways that contradict ideals of femininity in these multiple aspects of their professional lives. The data for this i…
Emotion and Leadership
While leadership and emotion have been described as interrelated by many scholars in disciplines outside of sociology, there is a dearth of sociological literature on the subject. Indeed, within the last thirty years there has been an immense upsurge in the organizational literature on this very topic. While sociologists have not focused as much on leadership and emotions, there are many ways that sociologists can contribute, both empirically and…
We need a woman, we need a black woman’
In 1994, Amado Padilla used the phrase ‘cultural taxation’ to describe the extra burden of service responsibilities placed upon minority faculty members because of their racial or ethnic background. In this paper, we expand upon Padilla's work and introduce the concept of ‘identity taxation’ to encompass how other marginalised social identities (such as gender, race and gender, and sexual orientation) may result in additional non-academic service…
Why don't you get somebody new to do it?' Race and cultural taxation in the academy
There has been a marginal increase in the number of racial minorities among college and university faculty, yet current attacks on affirmative action and prevailing attitudes about the inferiority of non-white faculty place an extra burden on these individuals in academia. Amado Padilla (1994) introduced the concept of 'cultural taxation' to describe this burden where additional responsibilities are placed upon non-white faculty because of their …
Why don't you get somebody new to do it?' Race and cultural taxation in the academy
There has been a marginal increase in the number of racial minorities among college and university faculty, yet current attacks on affirmative action and prevailing attitudes about the inferiority of non-white faculty place an extra burden on these individuals in academia. Amado Padilla (1994) introduced the concept of 'cultural taxation' to describe this burden where additional responsibilities are placed upon non-white faculty because of their …
We need a woman, we need a black woman’
In 1994, Amado Padilla used the phrase ‘cultural taxation’ to describe the extra burden of service responsibilities placed upon minority faculty members because of their racial or ethnic background. In this paper, we expand upon Padilla's work and introduce the concept of ‘identity taxation’ to encompass how other marginalised social identities (such as gender, race and gender, and sexual orientation) may result in additional non-academic service…
Detached concern
The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology
From 1940 to 1980, studies of medical education were foundational to sociology, but attention shifted away from medical training in the late 1980s. Recently, there has been a marked return to this once pivotal topic, reflecting new questions and stakes. This article traces this resurgence by reviewing recent substantive research trends and setting the agenda for future research. We summarize four current research foci that reflect and critically …
She's not good with crying’
This paper explores how gender influences the way that faculty members are held accountable to gendered societal expectations related to scientists, faculty members, and leaders. In particular, women faculty members in the sciences, particularly those who lead large research groups, may be at a triple disadvantage: they must act in ways that contradict ideals of femininity in these multiple aspects of their professional lives. The data for this i…
I Just Did Everything Physically Possible to Get in There”
This ethnographic study focuses on how men and women chemistry graduate students are socialized to “do masculinity” differently in scientific contexts. Using results from nine months of observation and 40 semistructured interviews from five labs at a research-intensive university, I argue that the link between men, science, and academia may allow men, but not women, graduate students leeway in establishing their claim to scientific authority. Thu…
Emotion and Leadership
While leadership and emotion have been described as interrelated by many scholars in disciplines outside of sociology, there is a dearth of sociological literature on the subject. Indeed, within the last thirty years there has been an immense upsurge in the organizational literature on this very topic. While sociologists have not focused as much on leadership and emotions, there are many ways that sociologists can contribute, both empirically and…
We need a woman, we need a black woman’
In 1994, Amado Padilla used the phrase ‘cultural taxation’ to describe the extra burden of service responsibilities placed upon minority faculty members because of their racial or ethnic background. In this paper, we expand upon Padilla's work and introduce the concept of ‘identity taxation’ to encompass how other marginalised social identities (such as gender, race and gender, and sexual orientation) may result in additional non-academic service…
Why don't you get somebody new to do it?' Race and cultural taxation in the academy
There has been a marginal increase in the number of racial minorities among college and university faculty, yet current attacks on affirmative action and prevailing attitudes about the inferiority of non-white faculty place an extra burden on these individuals in academia. Amado Padilla (1994) introduced the concept of 'cultural taxation' to describe this burden where additional responsibilities are placed upon non-white faculty because of their …
Emotion and Leadership
While leadership and emotion have been described as interrelated by many scholars in disciplines outside of sociology, there is a dearth of sociological literature on the subject. Indeed, within the last thirty years there has been an immense upsurge in the organizational literature on this very topic. While sociologists have not focused as much on leadership and emotions, there are many ways that sociologists can contribute, both empirically and…
She's not good with crying’
This paper explores how gender influences the way that faculty members are held accountable to gendered societal expectations related to scientists, faculty members, and leaders. In particular, women faculty members in the sciences, particularly those who lead large research groups, may be at a triple disadvantage: they must act in ways that contradict ideals of femininity in these multiple aspects of their professional lives. The data for this i…
Tokenism
Tokenism is the symbolic inclusion of numerical minorities within a group, usually for the sake of appearances rather than for inclusiveness or true diversity. Tokens (due to their race, gender, or other social group membership) experience myriad issues related to their token status, particularly heightened visibility, exaggeration of their differences, and role encapsulation. In addition, tokens are often expected to do extra work due to their i…
I Just Did Everything Physically Possible to Get in There”
This ethnographic study focuses on how men and women chemistry graduate students are socialized to “do masculinity” differently in scientific contexts. Using results from nine months of observation and 40 semistructured interviews from five labs at a research-intensive university, I argue that the link between men, science, and academia may allow men, but not women, graduate students leeway in establishing their claim to scientific authority. Thu…
Detached concern
A Case for Double-Blind Review
To the Editor: At the Association of American Medical Colleges 2019 Learn Serve Lead conference, I was pleased to attend a fantastic session, “A Conversation Among Readers, Editors, and Authors About the Medical Education Literature,” hosted by several editors of the major journals within medical education. However, I was troubled by one portion of the discussion about double- versus single-blind peer review. The majority of the journal editors w…
Training for Professional Uncertainty
PURPOSE: Uncertainty in medical decision making is a well-described phenomenon, and numerous scholars have acknowledged and illustrated the process of training medical students to grapple with this aspect of medical practice. While clinical uncertainty has been defined previously, medical trainees face additional forms of uncertainty beyond the clinical setting that have not, as yet, been investigated empirically. One area in which uncertainty ca…
The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology
From 1940 to 1980, studies of medical education were foundational to sociology, but attention shifted away from medical training in the late 1980s. Recently, there has been a marked return to this once pivotal topic, reflecting new questions and stakes. This article traces this resurgence by reviewing recent substantive research trends and setting the agenda for future research. We summarize four current research foci that reflect and critically …
The promise of a health professions education imagination
Addressing Barriers to Accessing Head Start Programs via the Medical Home
How Do Academic Medicine Pathways Differ for Underrepresented Trainees and Physicians? A Critical Scoping Review
Developing Evidence for Equitable Assessment Characteristics Based on Clinical Learner Preferences Using Discrete Choice Experiments
Reexamining racism, sexism, and identity taxation in the academy
Amid the 2020 COVID pandemic and officer-involved deaths of numerous Black Americans, US colleges and universities stated commitments to improve ethnoracial diversity and address structural racism.This type of diversityrelated work, which fell mostly upon faculty of colour, was not new, however.In 1994, Padilla coined the term "cultural taxation" to describe the disproportionate labour faculty of colour are expected to perform.Hirshfield and Jose…
A view from the top
Special issue introduction
I get to relate to my patients
While the U.S. Latinx population has rapidly increased in the past 30 years, the number of Latinx physicians has not kept pace. Latinx students are often motivated to pursue medicine to serve those in their communities, which benefits Latinx community health outcomes through patient-clinician cultural and linguistic concordance. However, significant barriers often prevent Latinx people from successfully navigating the transition to and through me…
(How) does majoring in the social sciences and humanities relate to specialty choice?
BACKGROUND: Scholars have previously demonstrated a link between backgrounds in the social sciences and humanities and humanistic qualities, yet the literature exploring the relationship between undergraduate college major and specialty choice is equivocal, in part because previous studies have rarely used nationally representative datasets. Further, there are many potential mediating factors that may influence this relationship. METHODS: This cr…
Psychology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Medical education (10 works) · Innovations in Medical Education (7 works) · Diversity and Career in Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)