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Ara Francis
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Ara Francis is an associate professor at College of the Holy Cross and a microsociologist whose current scholarship focuses on the history of the death positive movement and the hospice care model. She is particularly interested in the relationship between white femininity and taken-for-granted ideas about what it means to die well. Her first book, Family Troubles: Middle-Class Parents, Children's Problems, and the Disruption of Everyday Life (2015, Rutgers University Press), examined middle-class parents’ experiences of raising children who had been marked as different, disabled, or deviant.