The Harvard University Department of Sociology

Victor Tan Chen

Graduate Student in Sociology and Social Policy

Biographical Note

Victor studies poverty, development, globalization, and social movements. With Katherine S. Newman he co-authored The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America (Beacon Press, 2007), which explores an invisible population -- the near poor -- who are far more numerous than those living below the poverty line. He also contributed to the book Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market (Russell Sage and Harvard University Press, 2006). Victor is the founding editor of INTHEFRAY Magazine (http://inthefray.org), an award-winning publication that seeks to question, inform, and inspire conservations about identity and community. His writing has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Newsday, the Minority Law Journal, The Oregonian, The Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Let's Go: Chile.

10/15/2007
Research Interests
Poverty, development, globalization, and social movements
Previous Degrees
B.A., Harvard University, History and Literature
Teaching Experience
None
Sociology 96 Community Research Internship Instructor/Teaching Fellow

 

Qualifying Paper Title
Global Confederates: From Social Movements to 'Movements of Movements,' the Strange Career of Global Justice Activism

Suggested Links

INTHEFRAY Magazine
The Missing Class: Portraits of the New Poor in America

 

 

photo by Tamar Cedeno-Ramos

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