Faculty Books
Anthony S. Chen
Associate Professor
1808 Chicago Avenue
Room 105
Phone: (847) 467-0515
anthony-chen@northwestern.edu
Office Hours: (Winter 2012)
Thursday 10:00-12:00
Areas of Interest
American Political Development/Public Public (since the New Deal)
Historical Sociology
Economic Sociology
Racial Inequality
Biography
Anthony S. Chen is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. He is interested in American political development and public policy since the New Deal, with a special focus on the politics of social policy, civil rights, health care, and economic regulation.
Chen’s first book, The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972 (Princeton, 2009), was co-winner of the Gladys M. Kammerer Award (2010) from the American Political Science Association (APSA), co-winner of the J. David Greenstone Award (2010) from the APSA’s Politics and History Section, winner of the Best Book Award (2010) from the APSA’s Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section, and winner of the President's Book Award (2008) from the Social Science History Association. In collaboration with Lisa Stulberg, he is writing a new book (under advance contract with Princeton) on the origins and development of affirmative action in college admissions. He is also beginning new research on the transformation of the regulatory state since the Nixon administration. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of American History, the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, and Studies in American Political Development.
Chen graduated from the public schools of Alief, Texas; he received a BA from Rice University and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Soros Fellow. Chen has been a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation as well as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the Berkeley and San Francisco campuses of the University of California.
Before joining Northwestern in 2010, Chen was on the faculty for eight years at the University of Michigan, where he held appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He currently lives in Chicago.
Courses Taught
TBA
Books
The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972
Princeton University Press, 2009
Sociology Robert F. Winch Awards for 2011
Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer: Marina Zaloznaya
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistants: Fiona Chin and Christopher Carroll
Outstanding Graduate Student Second-Year Paper: Jaimie Morse
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Published or Presented:
Upcoming Events
Colloquium: Nicola Beisel, PhD - Sociology
February 23, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Culture and Society Workshop: Simone Ispa-Landa, Human Development and Social Policy
February 23, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
