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Victor Tan Chen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Founders Hall, 827 W. Franklin St., Room 228

Office hours: Tuesdays, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Economic inequality

labor

social policy

Education

  • Ph.D., Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University, 2012

Research Interests

  • Economic inequality
  • Work and labor
  • Social policy

Select Publications

Dr. Victor Tan Chen's Papers

Affiliations

  • Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
    • Chair of Network Organizer Forum
    • Co-organizer of Network A: Community, Democracy, and Organizations

Courses

  • Sociology 320: Research Methods in the Social Sciences
  • Sociology 601: Sociological Research Methods
  • Sociology 602: Applications of Sociological Research Methods

Awards

  • Joyce Rothschild Book Prize (2022)
  • John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award (2017)
  • VCU College of Humanities and Sciences Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship (Humanities and Social Sciences) (2016)
  • Thomas A. Kochan and Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Award (2012)

Other Links

https://victortanchen.com/other-writings