Kraemer, Helena C.
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this interview, Helena Kraemer begins with stories about how her family background played an important role in motivating her to achieve college and career goals in math and statistics, an uncommon aspiration for women of her era. She talks about how she landed at Stanford and goes on to review her personal and professional life there, highlighting her accomplishments as a female statistician within the university’s School of Medicine. She relays many stories about her work and professional relationships in the Department of Psychiatry and speaks about how different department heads affected her career advancement. While she faced obstacles to tenure as a female in a predominantly male department, she overcame those obstacles through perseverance, high-quality research respected by peers, and sheer determination. As a co-author or contributor to literally hundreds of research articles, she speaks of one of her proudest accomplishment as the work she did on the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychological Disorders. Toward the end of the interview, she talks about the challenge of trying to balance family needs and career goals throughout her years at the university. Nevertheless, in looking back at her family and career, she would do it all again, having found great satisfaction in the research and teaching contributions she made while at Stanford and in raising two accomplished daughters.
Description
Type of resource | mixed material |
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Date created | October 29, 2014 |
Creators/Contributors
Author | Kraemer, Helena C. | |
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Contributing author | Tobey, Karen | |
Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
Subject | Helena Kraemer |
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Subject | Stanford Historical Society |
Subject | oral histories |
Subject | interviews |
Subject | statistics |
Subject | behavioral sciences |
Bibliographic information
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/hv238kn7971 |
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- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Preferred citation
- Preferred Citation
Helena C. Kraemer (2014).
Oral history. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at:
http://purl.stanford.edu/hv238kn7971
Collection
Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2022
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