Michael Topping

I am a T32 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Population Studies Center within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, where I am also affiliated with the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology (with a minor in Quantitative Analysis and Data Science) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I was a graduate student trainee in the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) and the Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA). I also was a Graduate Research Fellow in the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP).

My research draws on quantitative and formal demographic methods and theoretical perspectives from the social sciences to examine how outcomes of health and mortality differ temporally, geographically, and across the life course.

My work has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Aging and Health, SSM-Population Health, Social Science History and other outlets.

You can find my most up-to-date CV here.