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Victor W. Marshall
Ph.D., Director
 
Phone: 919.843.8067
Fax: 919.966.0510
UNC Institute on Aging
University of North Carolina
720 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.,
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Victor Marshall, Ph.D., is Director of the UNC Institute on Aging, Professor of sociology and Adjunct Professor of health behavior and health education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also directs the Institute's NIH-funded doctoral and post-doctoral training program.

Dr. Marshall received his BA from the University of Calgary and his doctorate in sociology from Princeton University. He then pursued a career in sociology at McMaster University and in public health at The University of Toronto. In Toronto he directed the Institute for Human Development, Life Course and Aging for seven years, before moving to UNC.

Dr. Marshall has held a number of executive positions in the field of aging, including: Vice-President of the Canadian Association on Gerontology; Board Member of the Southern Gerontological Society; Director of the Canadian Aging Research Network; Executive Committee of the International Association on Gerontology; and Chair of the Fellowship Committee, Gerontological Society of America. He was Editor of the Canadian Journal on Aging and serves on the editorial boards of Social Forces, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Journal of Aging and Health, and Aging and Society.  Currently, he is the U.S. Team Leader of the Workforce Aging in the New Economy project (WANE), a multi-national collaboration studying workforce aging and employment trends in the IT (information technology) field. He is also Co-Principal Investigator on WILIS (Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science), a study of occupational life courses in the field of librarianship.

Recent publications include: C. Ryff and V. Marshall (Eds.), The Self and Society in Aging Processes (Springer, 1999); V. Marshall, and others, (Eds.), Restructuring Work and the Life Course (University of Toronto Press, 2001); and W. Heinz and V. Marshall (Eds.), Social Dynamics of the Life Course (Aldine De Gruyter, 2003).

140 Commonwealth Avenue - 3 Lake Street Bldg. - Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Email: age.work@bc.edu - Phone: 617.552.9195 - Fax: 617.552.9202
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