Katherine K. ChenAssistant Professor of Sociology
The City College of New York and
The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Katherine K. Chen is an organizational researcher. She is an assistant professor of sociology at The City College of New York and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY). Her research and teaching interests include organizational theory, behavior, and culture, work and occupations, work and family, economic sociology, consumer studies, and social movements. She earned a PhD at Harvard University and an AB at Stanford University.
Selected peer-reviewed academic articles and chapters
- Chen, Katherine K. and Siobhan O'Mahony. 2009. "Differentiating Organizational Boundaries." Research in the Sociology of Organizations 26: 183-220.
- Chen, Katherine. 2005. "Incendiary Incentives: How the Burning Man Organization Motivates and Manages Volunteers." Pp. 109-128 in AfterBurn: Reflections on Burning Man. Eds. Lee Gilmore and Mark Van Proyen. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
- Chen, Katherine. 2003. "Coordinating contributing members: how the Burning Man organization forms an 'alternative' artistic community in the Nevada Black Rock Desert." Pp. 56-61 in People Shaping Places Shaping People Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Proceedings 34. Eds. Julia W. Robinson, Kathleen A. Harder, Herbert L. Pick, and Virajita Singh
Short article
- Chen, Katherine K. 2009 "Authenticity at Burning Man." Contexts 8(3): 65-67.
Selected general publications
- Chen, Katherine. 2003. "Burning Man lights a fire: The Nevada desert event doesn't just produce art, it produces citizens." Voted best article at in the fray.
- Chen, Katherine. 2002. "The Alternative in the Desert: On the Burning Man Organization." Alumni Quarterly Colloquy: 16. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Harvard University
- Chen, Katherine. 2003. "Growth at Burning Man: An Anthropological View." Blacktop Gazette: Decompression Issue 2(3).