Victor Marshall

Victor Marshall became Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute on Aging (IOA) at UNC-CH in 1999, following a lengthy career at McMaster University and the University of Toronto. He also directs the Carolina Program in Healthcare and Aging Research, an IOA training program funded by National Institute on Aging. His research interests and publications are in the area of aging and the life course with particular attention to work and health, public policy, and social theory. He has been the principal investigator of more than 30 grants in various aspects of aging, including transitions from work to retirement as a social determinant of health, and human resource management in relation to the aging of the labor force. He is currently director of the US team in the Workforce Aging in the New Economy project, which studies aging workforce issues in the information technology sector in the US, Canada, Australia, and the European Union. He is also conducting research for Veterans Affairs Canada concerning the working careers of discharged Canadian Forces personnel. Among his recent publications are the edited books, Restructuring Work and the Life Course (Marshall et al., University of Toronto Press, 2001) and Social Dynamics of the Life Course: Sequences, Institutions, and Interrelations (Heinz and Marshall, Aldine de Gruyter, 2003). He co-edits a book series on the life course and aging for Aldine de Gruyter, and serves on the editorial boards of four journals. In 2002 he received the Distinguished Mentor Award of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section, Gerontological Society of America; he received the 2003 Academic Gerontologist Award of the Southern Gerontological Society. For more information see http://www.aging.unc.edu/bio/marshall/.