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Enjoying that social media-free life since 2020!
To contact me, email: christine_mair (at) umbc.edu
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Primary Appointment
Associate Professor, Sociology & Gerontology
Director, Center for Health, Equity, & Aging (CHEA)
Co-Director, Southern Population Aging Research Center (SPARC)
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health (SAPH)
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Secondary Appointment
Dept. of Epidemiology & Public Health (EPH)
University of Maryland, School of Medicine (UMSOM)
University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)
Program Affiliations
UMB-UMBC Doctoral Program in Gerontology
UMBC Master’s Program in Applied Sociology
UMBC Undergraduate Program in Sociology
My early training in archaeology, along with growing up in the U.S. South (North Florida) in a military family and around international communities, sparked a long-standing interest in culture, social norms, and cross-cultural perspectives on relationships and care. Today, my work in sociology and gerontology examines how changing family structures and social relationships shape health and well-being in later life. I study the growing number of unpartnered, childless, and “kinless” older adults, along with emergent and alternative family forms that reflect how people adapt to demographic changes such as lower fertility and lack of partnership. This research focuses on how family availability and social relationships shape social networks, social support, caregiving, health, and later-life experiences in the United States and cross-nationally, using comparative data to understand how broader cultural and contextual forces influence patterns of aging and later-life outcomes.
Below are some photos from my international collaborative travels. 🙂
International Workshop on Aging with Limited Family Ties (Singapore) 
National University of Singapore (Singapore) 
Peranakan District (Singapore) 
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