Drop-in office hours & lunch with Prof. William Axinn, Interim IPC Director
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Prof. William Axinn (Interim Director, IPC)Date & time
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This is an in-person event for current Ford School students.
Light lunch will be provided.
Join Prof. William Axinn and Daniel Ellis, the International Policy Center’s (IPC’s) Interim Director and Assistant Director, respectively, for drop-in office hours and lunch! Learn more about Prof. Axinn’s work and IPC’s research and experiential learning opportunities.
This year, IPC will organize numerous student-facing activities, including an Aid & Development workshop series focusing on grant proposal writing, International Policy Research Assistantship (IPRA) positions, student funding programs, and a global health seminar series.
Prof. Axinn also welcomes feedback from returning students on the center’s programming from last academic year, particularly as IPC considers longer-term programming opportunities.
Speaker Bio
William Axinn is the Ronald and Deborah Freedman Director of the International Hub at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR), Interim Director of the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, a research professor at ISR, a professor in the Department of Sociology, a faculty affiliate at the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, and a professor of public policy (by courtesy) at the Ford School. Axinn also serves as co-director of both the Chitwan Valley Family Study and the World Mental Health Survey Initiative. Axinn is a sociologist and demographer whose research interests include: the relationships among social change, the social organization of families, intergenerational relationships, and reproductive and mental health in the United States and Nepal. He also studies the interrelationships between population and the environment and new techniques for the collection of social science data. More recently in his career, Axinn’s interests have evolved to include public policy applications of his research. His teaching centers on the family, the life course, fertility and research methods.
