Dr. Paul Maxim
Professor (Economics)
Contact Information
Email: maxim@wlu.caOffice Location: Balsillie School, 67 Erb St.W, BSIA305
Office Hours: Phone#2267723148 - Winter 2013 Office Hrs: Wed 1:30-3:30pm or by appointment
Academic Background
PhD, Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
MA, Criminology, University of Ottawa
BA Hon, Sociology, University of Toronto
Biography
Paul Maxim completed his term as Associate Vice-President: Research in 2011. After returning from sabbatical in 2012, he will be joining the Laurier School of Business and Economics, Department of Economics.
Before joining Laurier in 2006, he was Associate Dean of Research and Operations
in the Faculty of Social Science, and Professor of Sociology at the
University of Western Ontario, where he taught from 1981 to 2006. Prior
to that, he was an Instructor in the Department of Criminology at Simon
Fraser University.
Professor Maxim attended the University of Toronto where he obtained an Honours BA. Following that, he received an MA in criminology from the University of Ottawa and a PhD in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a visiting scholar in the Criminology Institute at Cambridge University and in the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen, where he was awarded a residential scholar award by the National Bank of Denmark.
Professor Maxim has numerous publications in the areas of criminology, social statistics and research methods, and population economics. His most recent research focuses on the socio-economic integration of immigrants into Canada society and on the formal labour force experiences of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples.
