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Enjoying that social media-free life since 2020!
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To contact me, email:
christine_mair (at) umbc.edu
Associate Professor, Sociology & Gerontology
Director, Center for Health, Equity, & Aging
Dept. Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Secondary Appointment
Dept. of Epidemiology & Public Health
University of Maryland, School of Medicine
University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)
UMB-UMBC Doctoral Program in Gerontology
UMBC Master’s Program in Applied Sociology
The overall goal of my research is to understand variation in older adults’ social environments (family structures, networks, neighborhoods) and health cross-nationally to identify options for promoting well-being among aging populations that are particularly vulnerable to social isolation.
Specifically, I’m interested in how the presence or absence of family and non-family ties are linked to social support and social integration, and how this process differentially shapes mental health, physical health, end-of-life experiences, and other aspects of well-being across modern and historical cultures and societies.
Below are some photos from my international collaborative travels. 🙂
Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship, National University of Singapore (Singapore) 
Centre for Family & Population Research (CFPR) (Singapore) 
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Cologne, Germany) 
International Association of Gerontology & Geriatrics (Yokohama, Japan) 
Population Association of Singapore (Singapore) 
Aging Technology & Policy Lab, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Daejeon, S. Korea) 
World Congress of Sociology (Melbourne, Australia) 
Workshop on Intergenerational Relations, University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy) 
National University of Singapore (Singapore) 
Institute of Gerontology, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China (Beijing, China) 
Institute for Population and Development Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University (Xi’an, China) 
Institute of Statistics & Demography, Warsaw School of Economics (Warsaw, Poland) 
Society and Health Research Center at Universidad Mayor (Santiago, Chile) 
Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications, University of Florence (Florence, Italy) 
Erasmus School of Social & Behavioral Sciences (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
“Experience, travel… these are as education in themselves.” ~ Euripides
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die… we may even become friends.” ~ Maya Angelou
“Miles to go before I sleep…” ~ Robert Frost