U.S. Team Members

The WANE team is an international compilation of social scientists, researchers and statisticians. We have team members in Canada, the US, the European Union and Australia. The United States team is led by Victor W. Marshall, PhD. The U.S. Team is focusing specifically on the IT industries in North Carolina and Florida. Download our organizational charts for details: International WANE team | U.S. WANE team.

North Carolina Staff

Co-Investigators

Victor W. Marshall, PhD
US Team Leader, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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The US WANE team is led by Victor Marshall, PhD. Dr. Marshall is Senior Research Scientist at the UNC Institute on Aging (IOA), Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at UNC. He received his B.A. from the University of Calgary and his PhD in sociology from Princeton University. As Director of CARNET: the Canadian Aging Research Network, he developed an extensive research program, Issues of an Aging Workforce, that gathered case study data from several firms in both Canada and the United States to investigate the impact of workforce aging on human resources policy. Subsequently, he led a research program examining four large-scale surveys to investigate the changing retirement transition and its impact on health. 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. His expertise in the areas of work, aging and the life course has led to numerous publications. His latest two books are Restructuring Work and the Life Course and Social Dynamics of the Life Course.

Candace L. Kemp, Ph.D.
Co-investigator, Georgia State University
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Dr. Kemp received her Ph.D. in sociology at McMaster University where she also earned her M.A. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Gerontology Institute at Georgia State University. Dr. Kemp’s primary research interests include aging, family, gender, work, and the life course. Her recent research activities examine: work-life balance; masculinity and aging; care expectations in aging families; risk, responsibility and planning for later life; inheritance and bequest practices; intergenerational relationships; and long-term later life marriage.

Joanne G. Marshall, PhD
Co-Investigator, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Dr. Marshall joined the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) as Dean and Professor in January 1999. In July 2004, she returned to the faculty as an Alumni Distinguished Professor. Prior to 1999, Dr. Marshall was a faculty member at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto for 12 years, where she taught courses in health sciences information, special libraries, research methods and online information retrieval. She received a B.A. from the University of Calgary; an M.H.Sc. from McMaster University; an M.L.S. from McGill University; and a PhD from the University of Toronto. Her areas of research interest include health information needs and services; value and impact of library and information services; aging workforce issues; and competencies of library and information professionals. Joanne is author of numerous library and information science (LIS) publications that are widely cited. She is currently president of the Medical Library Association.

Research Staff

Sara Haviland, MA
Research Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sara Haviland is a doctoral student in the UNC-CH sociology department and has been a research assistant at the Institute on Aging since 2003. She received her M.A. in sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill with her thesis entitled: "The Gender Paradox in Job Satisfaction: An International Perspective” under the direction of Arne Kalleberg. In addition to work and family, Sara is interested in issues of employer benefits, retirement timing, retention of the healthcare workforce in long term care, coupled careers, and the life course.

email: haviland@email.unc.edu

Heather Kane, MA
Research Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Heather Kane is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at UNC-CH. She is the recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and student editor of _Social Forces_. In addition to the WANE project, she has conducted research on post-partum and post-adoptive depression, women in patriotic societies, and religion and homophobia.

email: odonovan@email.unc.edu

Lindsey King, BA
Research Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lindsey King is a third-year doctoral student in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her primary fields of interest are organizations and social psychology, with an emphasis on labor market transitions. Lindsey received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2002.

email: lmking@email.unc.edu

Mairead Eastin Moloney, MA
Research Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mairead Eastin Moloney is a doctoral student in the UNC-CH sociology department and has been a research assistant at the Institute on Aging since arriving in Chapel Hill in 2002. Her master's thesis was entitled: "It puts you on an uneven playing field": Experiences of disclosure, accommodation and stigma management among working women with disabilities. Victor Marshall served as the chair of her master's committee. In addition to disability and stigma, Mairead is interested in issues of work, life course, social psychology and qualitative methods.

email: moloney@email.unc.edu

Jennifer Craft Morgan, PhD
Research Scientist

Jennifer Craft Morgan is a Research Scientist at Institute on Aging and Project Research Coordinator of the Workforce Aging in the New Economy project as well as the Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science (WILIS) project at the Institute. She is also a co-investigator on the Better Jobs, Better Care Applied Research project (STEP UP NOW) and the on-going intervention program WIN A STEP UP (Workforce Improvement for Nursing Assistants: Supporting Training, Education and Payment for Upgrading Performance). She received her Ph.D.(Just a Job? A Mixed Methods Analysis of the Situation of Direct Care Workers in Long Term Care) in the Summer of 2005 from the Department of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill where she also received her M.A. Dr. Morgan's substantive interests include medical sociology, gender stratification, work and occupations and life course and aging. She is particularly interested in the intersection of issues of gender, age, health and work.

email: craft@email.unc.edu

Kate Pepin
Research Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kate Pepin is a doctoral student in the Sociology Department at UNC Chapel Hill. She has been a research assistant at the Institute on Aging since her arrival in the summer of 2003. She is currently in the process of writing her Masters thesis. Her main substantive interests include family and aging, demography, and the survey methodology.

email: kpepin@email.unc.edu

Florida Staff

Neil Charness, PhD
Co-Investigator, Florida State University

Dr. Charness received his BA from McGill University and earned both his MS and PhD from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is currently a professor of psychology at Florida State University as well as a Research Associate at the prestigious Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy. He is actively involved in numerous societies of gerontology and psychology, including the American Psychological Association where he is incoming President of Division 20 (Adult Development and Aging), the International Society for Gerontechnology (a founding member), the American Psychological Society, the Gerontological Society of America, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. He also served recently on the USA National Academies Committee on Health and Safety Concerns of Older Workers. Currently, Dr. Charness is using his research expertise to study a variety of topics including: human factors approaches to technology use by older adults, age and expert performance (maintaining skill across the life span), and the aging of the Information Technology workforce in the new economy.

Melissa Hardy, PhD
Co-Investigator, Pennsylvania State University
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Dr. Hardy received her PhD from Indiana University. She is a professor of human development/family studies, sociology and demography at Pennsylvania State University. In addition, she is the Director of the Gerontology Center for the University. Dr. Hardy has served on the Scientific Advisory Committee CREATE (Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement), funded by the National Institute on Aging for the past 5 years. She is currently completing a book which addresses the contemporary debate on US pension plans. In addition she is working on projects addressing a variety of topics including: career aspirations and achievement, national identity, migrant workers and citizenship in Germany, supplemental pensions and cognitive components of saving behavior.

Melissa Barnett
Graduate Research Assistant

Melissa Barnett graduated magna cum laude and received her BA in English with a minor in music from Denison University in Granville, OH. She subsequently attended The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA before enrolling in Florida State University's sociology graduate program in the Fall of 2000. Her substantive interests include political economy, political sociology, comparative sociological research, social stratification, international migration, techniques of population analysis, dynamics of aging & social change and gender & aging. In 2002 she received her MS in sociology from FSU, and in 2003 received a Graduate Certificate in Aging Studies from the Pepper Institute on Aging & Public Policy at FSU.

Mark Fox
Research Assistant, Florida State University

Mark Fox is a graduate student in the Florida State University psychology department and is currently conducting research with Dr. Neil Charness. Mark received his B.A. in Psychology at Michigan State University where he worked in a cognitive aging lab as a senior in college as well as after his graduation. Mark is interested in cognitive aging, expert performance, and human factors.

Sallie Weaver
Research Assistant, Florida State University

Sallie Weaver is currently completing her senior year at Florida State University. She will graduate in April, 2006 with a B.S. in Psychology, with a Statistics minor. Additionally, she is currently working on an Honors Thesis titled “Musculoskeletal Pain in University Workers: Age & Gender Effects.” Sallie has worked as a research assistant for Dr. Neil Charness for the past three years on various projects, with a current focus on WANE. She hopes to pursue graduate study of work-family conflict, occupational health issues, and facets of the aging workforce upon graduation.

U.S. Partners

Debbie Brantley, M.Ed.
NC Division of Aging and Adult Services

Debbie Brantley holds a Bachelors Degree in English and a Masters Degree in Educational Administration from North Carolina State University and has completed additional coursework in gerontology. Ms. Brantley is the Chief of the Elder Rights and Special Initiatives Section with the Division of Aging and Adult Services in the Department of Health and Human Services. The Division of Aging promotes independence and helps preserve the dignity of older adults and their families throughout the state. Programs and initiatives in this Section include the: a) Long Term Care Ombudsman Program, b) Elder Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation Prevention Initiatives, c) Consumer Protection, d) Senior Community Service Employment Program and Older Worker Initiatives, e) Senior Education Corps and Volunteer Development, f) Legal Services (provides legal assistance to seniors on elder rights issues such as guardianship, advance directives, consumer protection, estate planning and other related issues) and g) Education Campaign on long-term care insurance and planning ahead for long-term care. Currently, she is also serving as Co-Chair of the North Carolina Senior Consumer Fraud Task Force.

James Grosch, PhD
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

James Grosch is a research psychologist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) who has worked on many projects relating to older workers and health outcomes. He is the author or numerous journal articles and in high demand as a speaker in both the public and private sectors. Dr. Grosch has done extensive analysis of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Other areas of research and publication include: organization of work, training and education, individual health outcomes, psychosocial conditions, and ergonomics.

Sara Rix
AARP

Sara E. Rix is a senior policy advisor with the Economics Team of the Public Policy Institute of AARP, where she focuses on the economics of aging, labor force and demographic trends, employment and retirement policy, and older worker employment issues. She has written and spoken extensively on the aged, an aging society, and aging issues for over 25 years. She has been involved in numerous international activities that focus on the problems of, and prospects for, an aging world. Rix is a member of the Program Advisory Group of the International Longevity Center and the Review Panel of Outside Scholars and Practitioners of the University of Michigan's Retirement Research Center; serves on the board of the Society of Government Economists and the Coalition for Expanded Employment Opportunities; and is a fellow of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Gerontological Society of America. Before coming to AARP, she was director of research for the Women's Research and Education Institute (WREI), a nonpartisan, policy-oriented research organization in Washington, DC.

Claude Snow
EDS

Claude Snow is the Global Vice President/Health Insurance industry of EDS. He joined the EDS team in 2002 to serve as a consultant for the health care industry and health care insurance practice. Formerly, Mr. Snow was a public sector executive, Strategy and Change Consulting, at IBM Global Services. While at IBM Mr. Snow was responsible for IBM's strategy and change management in the health care, government, education and pharmaceutical/life sciences markets.

A complete list of the entire International WANE team is available.