Sociology Faculty Directory
Wen Fan
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Admissions
Wen Fan
Ph.D.
Contact
McGuinn Hall 408
Telephone: 617-552-6864
Email: wen.fan@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Research Interests
Sociology of Health, Medical Sociology, Life Course, Aging, Work and Family, Gender, Social Demography, Quantitative Methods
Department
Biography
Wen Fan is an Associate Professor of Sociology. She received her Ph.D. in 2015 from the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. She also holds an M.S. in Statistics from the Department of Statistics at the University of Minnesota.
Currently Fan is working on three projects. The first is聽an NSF project on continuities, changes, and disparities in the experiences of remote and hybrid work in the time of聽COVID-19 (with聽Phyllis Moen). The second is on聽the worker, organizational, and societal impacts of a four day workweek trial that is currently ongoing in a wide range of organizations in the U.S. and other high-income countries (with聽Juliet Schor and Orla Kelly). In a third project, she is a聽co-investigator studying the pandemic-precipitated social change and mental health impacts in China (funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research) (PI: Yue Qian).
Publications
Lam, Jack, Kimberly Fox, Wen Fan, Phyllis Moen, Erin Kelly, Leslie Hammer, and Ellen Kossek. 2015. 鈥淢anager Characteristics and Employee Job Insecurity around a Merger Announcement: The Role of Status and Crossover.鈥澛�The Sociological Quarterly聽56(3): 558-580.
Fan, Wen, and Phyllis Moen. Forthcoming. 鈥淐OMMENT: Capturing Linked Lives: A Promising New Method.鈥� Sociological Methodology 45.
Fan, Wen, Jack Lam, Phyllis Moen, Erin Kelly, Rosalind King, and Susan McHale. 2015. 鈥淐onstrained Choices: Linking Employees鈥� and Spouses鈥� Work Conditions to Health Behaviors.鈥� Social Science & Medicine 126: 99-109.
Fan, Wen, and Yue Qian. 2015. 鈥淟ong-Term Health and Socioeconomic Consequences of Early-Life Exposure to the 1959-1961 Chinese Famine.鈥� Social Science Research 49: 53-69.
Kelly, Erin, Phyllis Moen, J. Michael Oakes, Wen Fan, Cassandra Okechukwu, Kelly D. Davis, Leslie Hammer, Ellen Kossek, Rosalind Berkowitz King, Ginger Hanson, Frank Mierzwa, and Lynne Casper. 2014. 鈥淐hanging Work and Work-Family Conflict: Evidence from the Work, Family, and Health Network.鈥� American Sociological Review 79(3): 485-516.
Lam, Jack, Wen Fan, and Phyllis Moen. 2014. 鈥淚s Insecurity Worse for Well-being in Turbulent Times? Mental Health in Context.鈥� Society and Mental Health 4(1): 55-73. (Featured podcast)
Moen, Phyllis, Wen Fan, and Erin Kelly. 2013. 鈥淭eam-Level Flexibility, Work-Home Spillover, and Health Behavior.鈥� Social Science & Medicine 84: 69-79.