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Phyllis Moen

Protrait: Phyllis Moen

Professor, McKnight Presidential Chair in Sociology
Ph.D. 1978 University of Minnesota
Room 1123 Social Sciences
Phone: 612-625-5483
Email: phylmoen@umn.edu
Website: www.soc.umn.edu/~moen/

Curriculum Vitae

Flexible Work and Well-Being Study

Interest Areas

Work, Retirement, and Organizations; Families and the Gendered Life Course; Health and Well-Being; Social Policy and Social Change.

Current Research

Prof. Moen co-directs (with Prof. Erin Kelly) the Flexible Work and Well-Being Center, part of a larger NIH-funded research network initiative seeking to study ways to promote individual and family health and life quality by increasing the degree of flexibility around the clockwork of paid work.

Prof. Moen is also engaged in research focusing on the changing nature of careers, the experiences of dual-earner couples, and the plans and transitions of baby-boomers as they move toward and into retirement.

Selected Publications

“A Life Course Approach to the Third Age.”  Forthcoming. In Gerontology in the Era of the Third Age: Implications and Next Steps, edited by D. C. Carr and K. Komp. New York: Springer Publications.

“Gendered Challenge, Gendered Response: Confronting the Ideal Worker Norm in a White-Collar Organization,” with Erin L. Kelly, Samantha K. Ammons, and Kelly Chermack. 2010. Gender and Society 24(3):281-303.

“Risk, Resilience, and Life-Course Fit: Older Couples’ Strategic Adaptations to Job Displacement,” with Stephen Sweet and Rachelle Hill. 2010. Pp. 283-309 in New Frontiers in Resilient Aging, edited by P. S. Fry and C. L. M. Keyes. New York: Cambridge University Press.

“Customizing Careers by Opting Out or Shifting Jobs: Dual-earners Seeking Life-course ‘Fit’,” with Qinlei Huang. Pp. 73-94 in Workplace Flexibility: Realigning 20th Century Jobs to 21st Century Workers, edited by K. Christensen and B. Schneider. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

“Working Families under Stress: Socially Toxic Job Time Cages and Convoys,” with Erin L. Kelly. 2009. Pp. 31-61 in Handbook of Families and Work: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by D. R. Crane and E. J. Hill. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.