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Victor Marshall

Dr. Victor Marshall 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.

Born in Calgary, Alberta, he 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. At Toronto he directed the Institute for Human Development, Life Course and Aging for seven years, before moving to UNC.

Victor 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, 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 currently co-edits the Aldine De Gruyter monograph series on The Life Course and Aging and serves on the editorial boards of Social Forces, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Journal of Aging and Health, and Ageing and Society.

Dr. Marshall's contributions to gerontology have been recognized by his receipt of the Academic Gerontologist Award from the Southern Gerontological Society, the Distinguished Member award from the Canadian Association on Gerontology, the Governor General of Canada's Queen's Jubilee Medal, and the Distinguished Mentor Award of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America.

As Director of the Canadian Aging Research Network, he developed an extensive research program on the aging of the labor force.Subsequently, he led a research program examining large-scale survey data to investigate the changing retirement transition and its impact on health. 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.

Current research investigates: the health consequences of disrupted labor force participation of older workers; work and retirement of Canadian Forces veterans; international comparisons of workforce aging in the Information Technology sector, and enhancing well-being in later life. 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).