Phyllis E Moen
Phyllis Moen (pronounced Mow-in) holds the McKnight Endowed Presidential Chair in Sociology at the University of Minnesota.
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Educational Background & Specialties
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1978.
- M.A.: Sociology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND , May 1973 .
- B.S.: Social Science, S. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, May 1971.
Specialties
- Work
- Family
- Subjective Well-Being
- Health
- Policy
- Gendered Life Course
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Courses Taught
- Soc 3003 - Social Problems
- Soc 4441 - Work-Family Links
- Soc 8221 - Sociology of Gender
- Soc 8590 - Topics in Life Course: Work, Health, and Gendered Life Course
- Soc 8590 - Topics in Life Course: Sociology of Time
- Soc 8590 - Topics in Life Course: Careers, Gender and Life Course
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Research & Professional Activities
Research
- Professor Moen studies the mismatch between outdated work-time and career/retirement scripts and 21st century workforce and economic realities. She also studies gender differences and disparities at all stages of the changing life course. With Erin Kelly (MIT) and the Work, Family and Health Network, she investigates organizational work-time policies and practices, employee time strains, psychological and physical health outcomes; this includes the effects of an organizational-level innovation aimed at increasing supervisor support and employee control over where and when they work. Dr. Moen is incoming president of a large interdisciplinary and international association. Work and Family Researchers’ Network. She received the Dean’s Medal in 2015, as well as the Sociology Department’s mentorship award. Dr. Moen was awarded a fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study of the Behavior Sciences for the 2015-16 academic year
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Publications
- "Organizational Change Around an Older Workforce," with Erik Kojola and Kate Schaefers. 2016 online. The Gerontologist doi:10.1093/geront/gnw048.
- Encore Adulthood: Boomers on the Edge of Risk, Renewal, and Purpose. 2016. NY: Oxford University Press.
- "Work Over the Gendered Life Course." 2016. Pp. 249-275 in Handbook of the Life Course, Vol. 2. Edited by Michael J. Shanahan, Jeylan T. Mortimer, and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson. NY: Springer.
- "No More Lock-Step Retirement: Boomers’ Shifting Meanings of Work and Retirement," with Erik Kojola. 2016. Journal of Aging Studies 36:59-70.
- "Supervisor Support Buffers Daily Psychological and Physiological Reactivity to Work-to-Family Conflict," with David M. Almeida, Kelly D. Davis, Soomi Lee, Katie M. Lawson, and Kimberly N. Walter. 2016. Journal of Marriage and Family 78(1):165-179.
- "Does a Flexibility/Support Organizational Initiative Improve High Tech Employee’s Well-Being? Evidence from the Work, Family and Health Network," with Erin L. Kelly, Wen Fan, Shi-Rong Lee, David Almeida, Ellen E. Kossek, and Orfeu Buxton. 2016. American Sociological Review 81(1):134-164.
- "Constrained Choices? Linking Employees’ and Spouses’ Work Time to Health Behaviors," with Wen Fan, Jack Lam, Erin L. Kelly, Rosalind King, and Susan McHale. 2015. Social Science and Medicine 126: 99-109.
- "Healthy Time Use in the Encore Years: Do Work, Resources, Relations, and Gender Matter?," with Sarah Flood. 2015. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 56(1):74-97.
- "Is Work-family Conflict a Multilevel Stressor Linking Job Conditions to Mental Health? Evidence from the Work, Family and Health Network," with Anne Kaduk, Ellen Kossek, Leslie Hammer, Orfeu Buxton, et al. 2015. Research in the Sociology of Work 26:177-217.
- "Changing Work and Work-Family Conflict: Evidence from the Work, Family and Health Network ," with Erin L. Kelly, J. Michael Oakes, Wen Fan, et. al. 2014. American Sociological Review 79(3):425-516.
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Awards
- College of Liberal Arts, Dean's Medalist, 2015
- Work-Life Legacy Award, Families and Work Institute, 2008
- "The Career Mystique" selected the best publication in Sociology by the Association of American Publishers, Professional and Scholarly Publication div, 2005