#  Victor Tan Chen 

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2012.

Associate Professor of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University.

 

 

 



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 laptop\_windows [Homepage](http://victortanchen.com) 

 

 



 

   
American Sociological Association Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (2012-2014).

   ![Cut Loose](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/chenbk15.jpg?itok=-ZUbPHoW) 

 

Victor Tan Chen's book, [Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy](http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520283015), based on his doctoral dissertation, has been published by the University of California Press (2015). *Winner of the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award for “contributions to research that address industrial relations/employment problems of national significance.” Labor and Employment Relations Association, 2017.*

 *Winner of College of Humanities and Sciences Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2016.*

 *Co-winner of the [Thomas A. Kochan and Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Award](http://lera.memberclicks.net/thomas-a-kochan-stephen-r-sleigh-best-dissertation-award), Labor and Employment Relations Association, 2012.*

   ![The Missing Class](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/newmanchenbk07.jpg?itok=QpEQaAc_) 

 

Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen are the authors of [The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America](http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1885), Beacon Press (2007).

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Alumni department
    
     [Sociology and Social Policy](/alumni-department/sociology-and-social-policy)
- ## Alumni year
    
     [2012](/alumni-year/2012)
- ## Roles
    
     [PhD Alumni](/alumni)