MICHELLE POULIN Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests:
Social change, marriage and the family, social demography, social policy and poverty, quantitative and qualitative methodsBackground Info:
Michelle Poulin joined the Population Studies & Training Center in 2008. She received her PhD in Sociology from Boston University in 2006, and was a Population Aging Research Center (PARC) Research Fellow at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania from 2006-2008. Her dissertation research investigated the social and sexual relations of young women and men living in the midst of an AIDS epidemic. Her current work broadly focuses on marriage and the life course in developing countries in Africa and in the United States. She is a Principal Investigator of a Hewlett Foundation and World Bank-funded project that investigates the transition to first marriage in Malawi
(Project Website.) Along with her colleagues, in this project Poulin investigates marriage behavior in a setting with high-mortality, rapid social change, and economic uncertainty.Selected Publications:
Clark, Shelley, Michelle Poulin, and Hans-Peter Kohler. (2009). Marriage aspirations and HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 71, 396-416.Boileau, Catherine, Shelley Clark, Simona Bignami-Van Assche, Michelle Poulin, Georges Reniers, Susan C. Watkins, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Jody Heymann. (2009). Sexual and marital trajectories and HIV infection among ever-married women in rural Malawi, 2001-2004. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 85 (Suppl 1), i27-i33.
Poulin, Michelle. (2007). Sex, money, and premarital partnerships in southern Malawi.
Social Science & Medicine, 65(11), 2383-2393.Adams, Jimi, Jenny Trinitapoli, and Michelle Poulin. (2007). Letter to the editor regarding “Male and Female Circumcision Associated with Prevalent HIV Infection in Virgins and Adolescents in Kenya, Lesotho, and Tanzania”. Annals of Epidemiology, 17(11), 923-925.
Poulin, Michelle. (2006). Giving and getting: Money exchange in intimate partnerships among youth in southern Malawi. In R. B. Riedl, S. Aksartova, and K. Mitchell (eds.), Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World. Approaches to Inequality, Identity, and Institutions. Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies: Princeton University. Monograph Series, No. 4.
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