Student conversation with Prof. William Axinn, Interim IPC Director
Feedback session on IPC program offerings
Registration required.Speaker
Prof. William Axinn (Interim Director, IPC)Date & time
Location
This is an in-person event for current Ford School students only. This event will not be recorded or livestreamed.
Light lunch will be provided.
Join Prof. William Axinn, International Policy Center (IPC) Interim Director, for an informal feedback session on this year’s center offerings.
As IPC considers future programming, Prof. Axinn welcomes feedback from domestic and international students on the center’s programs from this current academic year, including its global health seminar series, Aid & Development workshops, and student funding opportunities, among other offerings.
Speaker Bio
William Axinn is a research professor at the Institute for Social Research, professor in the Department of Sociology, a faculty affiliate at the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, and a professor of public policy. He is a sociologist and demographer whose research interests center on fertility and family demography. Axinn’s program of research addresses the relationships among social change, the social organization of families, intergenerational relationships, marriage, cohabitation, fertility 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.
