curriculum vitae

University of Minnesota
Department of Sociology
909 Social Sciences
office: (612) 624-4016
267 19th Avenue South
dept.: (612) 624-4300
Minneapolis, MN 55455
fax: (612) 624-7020

education

1995 Ph.D. Sociology, University of Wisconsin.
Advisor: Ross Matsueda. Major: Criminology, Stratification. Minor: Industrial Relations
1990 M.S. Sociology, University of Wisconsin [Entered graduate school 1989]
1986 B.A. Behavioral Science and Law / Criminal Justice, University of Wisconsin.

positions held

2006- Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota.

  • Department Chair (2006-09 term)

2005-2006 Professor. Sociology, University of Minnesota.

2001-2005 Associate Professor. Sociology, University of Minnesota.

  • McKnight Presidential Fellow (2001-04)
  • Associate Department Chair (2004-06)

1995-2001 Assistant Professor. Sociology, University of Minnesota.

  • Core Faculty, NIMH training grant (1998-2006).

honors and fellowships

2006 Distinguished McKnight University Professorship, University of Minnesota
2005
Public Sociology Award, University of Minnesota Department of Sociology
2004
Member, Sociological Research Association
2004 Sociological Education Award, Sociologists of Minnesota
2001-04
McKnight Presidential Fellow, University of Minnesota
2003-06 Executive Board, American Society of Criminology
2002-03 U.S. Delegate, U.S.- Japan Leadership Exchange Forum
2002-03 Sabbatical Supplement Award, University of Minnesota
2000-02 Fellow, Soros Foundation Open Society Institute
2001 Outstanding Faculty Award, Mortar Board National Honor Society
(for superior dedication to undergraduate research)
2000 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award, American Society of Criminology
(for outstanding scholarly contributions to the field of criminology)
1999 College Nominee, Morse Alumni University Teaching Award
1999 Student Board Nominee, College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Faculty Award
1998 Junior Scholar Award, International Society for Criminology
1998 Faculty Mentor Award, University of Minnesota Department of Sociology
1996 Katherine DuPree Lumpkin Dissertation Award, University of Wisconsin
1994 Dissertation Fellowship, University of Wisconsin
1992 1st Prize, ASA Crime, Law and Deviance Section Student Paper Award
1991 1st Prize, Gene Carte Paper Award American Society of Criminology
1990-92 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
1990 Distinction, University of Wisconsin Sociology Preliminary Examination
1989 Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin
1986 Undergraduate Scholarship, AMEV/Fortis Company

publications

books

 

Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. 2006. Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.

2008. Paperback edition.

journals

Co-editor. 2007-2010. American Sociological Association's Contexts. (with Doug Hartmann).

Guest editor. 2005. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. Special issue: Collateral Consequences of Criminal Sanctions, Volume 21, No. 1.

articles

Christopher Uggen and Heather Hlavka. 2008. “Does Stigmatizing Sex Offenders Drive Down Reporting Rates? Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences” Forthcoming in Northern Kentucky Law Review.

Christopher Uggen and Chika Shinohara. " “Age, Gender, andSekuhara in the United States and Japan." 2008. Forthcoming in The Sociological Quarterly.

Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2008. “Social Class and Workplace Harassment During the Transition to Adulthood.” New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development 119:85-98. [invited].

Christopher Uggen. 2007. “Who We Punish: The Carceral State.” Social Research 74: 467-469 and “Dirty Bombs and Garbage Cases.” Social Research 74: 707-711. [invited, non-refereed]

Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. 2007. “Subjective Desistance and the Transition to Adulthood.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 23:90-103. [pdf] [copyright]

Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Melissa Thompson, 2006. “Citizenship, Democracy, and the Civic Reintegration of Criminal Offenders.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 605:281-310. [pdf] [copyright]

Christopher Uggen, Angela Behrens, and Jeff Manza. 2005. “Criminal Disenfranchisement.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 1:307-322. [pdf] [copyright]

Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2004. “Voting and Subsequent Crime and Arrest: Evidence from a Community Sample.” Columbia Human Rights Law Review 36:193-215. [pdf] [copyright]

Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Punishment and Democracy: The Disenfranchisement of Nonincarcerated Felons in the United States.” Perspectives on Politics 2:491-505. [pdf] [copyright]

Christopher Uggen and Amy Blackstone. 2004. "Sexual Harassment as a Gendered Expression of Power." American Sociological Review 69:64-92. [abstract] [ASA release] [pdf] [copyright]

Jeff Manza, Clem Brooks, and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Public Attitudes toward Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States.” Public Opinion Quarterly 68:276-87. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Sara Wakefield and Christopher Uggen. 2004. "The Declining Significance of Race in Federal Civil Rights Law: The Social Structure of Employment Discrimination Claims." Sociological Inquiry 74:128-57. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Angela Behrens, Christopher Uggen, and Jeff Manza. 2003. “Ballot Manipulation and the ‘Menace of Negro Domination’: Racial Threat and Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2002.” American Journal of Sociology 109:559-605. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Reprinted 2006 in Crime and Criminal Justice: International Library of Essays in Law & Society, edited by William T. Lyons, Jr. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing.

Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Angela Behrens. 2003. “Felon Voting Rights and the Disenfranchisement of African Americans.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 5:47-55. [pdf] [copyright]

Christopher Uggen and Melissa Thompson. 2003. "The Socioeconomic Determinants of Ill-Gotten Gains: Within-Person Changes in Drug Use and Illegal Earnings." American Journal of Sociology 109:146-85. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Jeremy Staff and Christopher Uggen. 2003. "The Fruits of Good Work: Job Quality and Adolescent Deviance." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 40:263-90.
[abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2002. "Democratic Contraction? The Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States." American Sociological Review 67:777-803.[abstract] [pdf] [ASA] [NYT] [copyright]

Reprinted 2006 in Crime, Inequality, and the State, edited by Mary E. Vogel (New York: Routledge). Excerpted 2004, pp. 264-65 in Sociology (“Prisoners and Presidents”) by David M. Newman. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press; Excerpted 2003 in American Sociological Association’s Footnotes (“Sociology News for the Dinner Table”) 31:8; Excerpted 2003 in Contexts (“Discoveries”) 2:6.

Christopher Uggen and Jeremy Staff. 2001. “Work as a Turning Point for Criminal Offenders.” Corrections Management Quarterly 5:1-16. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Reprinted 2004, Pp. 141-66 in Crime and Employment: Critical Issues in Crime Reduction for Corrections, edited by Jessie L. Krienert and Mark S. Fleisher. Rowman and Littlefield.

Barbara McMorris and Christopher Uggen. 2000. "Alcohol and Employment in the Transition to Adulthood." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41:276-94. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Christopher Uggen. 2000. "Work as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Criminals: A Duration Model of Age, Employment, and Recidivism." American Sociological Review 65:529-46. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Reprinted 2002, 2004, 2006 in Boundaries: Readings in Deviance, Crime, and Justice, edited by B.R.E. Wright, Jr. and R.B. McNeal, Jr. Allyn & Bacon/Pearson Custom Publishing.

Awarded International Society for Criminology Junior Scholar Article Prize.

Christopher Uggen. 2000. "Class, Gender, and Arrest: An Intergenerational Analysis of Workplace Power and Control." Criminology 38:101-28. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Jessica Huiras, Christopher Uggen, and Barbara McMorris. 2000. "Career Jobs, Survival Jobs, and Employee Deviance: A Social Investment Model of Workplace Misconduct." The Sociological Quarterly 41:245-63. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Candace Kruttschnitt, Christopher Uggen, and Kelly Shelton. 2000. "Predictors of Desistance among Sex Offenders: The Interaction of Formal and Informal Social Controls." Justice Quarterly 17:61-87. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Elizabeth Chambliss and Christopher Uggen. 2000. "Men and Women of Elite Law Firms: Reevaluating Kanter's Legacy." Law and Social Inquiry 25:41-68. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Lauren Edelman, Christopher Uggen, and Howard Erlanger. 1999. "The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth."  American Journal of Sociology 105:406-54. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Christopher Uggen and Jennifer Janikula. 1999. "Volunteerism and Arrest in the Transition to Adulthood." Social Forces 78:331-62. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Christopher Uggen. 1999. "Ex-Offenders and the Conformist Alternative: A Job Quality Model of Work and Crime." Social Problems 46:127-51. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Christopher Uggen and Candace Kruttschnitt. 1998. "Crime in the Breaking: Gender Differences in Desistance." Law and Society Review 32:401-28. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Reprinted 2000 in The Termination of Criminal Careers, edited by Stephen Farrall. 2000. International Library of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate.

Christopher Uggen and Irving Piliavin. 1998. "Asymmetrical Causation and Criminal Desistance." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 88:1399-1422. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Reprinted 2002, 2004, 2006 in Boundaries: Readings in Deviance, Crime, and Justice.

Excerpted in National Institute of Justice NIJ Journal 237:20 (October).

Christopher Uggen. 1993. "Reintegrating Braithwaite: Shame and Consensus in Criminological Theory." Law and Social Inquiry 18:481-500. [pdf] [copyright] [An article-length review essay]

Christopher Uggen. 1993. "Beyond Calvin and Hobbes: Rationality and Exchange in a Theory of Moralizing Shaming." Law and Social Inquiry 18:513-16. [pdf] [copyright] [A rejoinder to John Braithwaite's "Pride in Criminological Dissensus"]


book chapters and encyclopedia entries

Christopher Uggen and Heather Hlavka. 2008. “No More Lame Pro-sems: Professional Development Seminars in Sociology.” Forthcoming in volume on graduate professionalization, edited by David Shulman and Ira Silver. New York: American Sociological Association.

Uggen, Christopher. 2008. “Thinking Experimentally.” Pages 181-189 in Experiments in Criminology and Law: A Research Revolution. Christine J. Horne and Michael J. Lovaglia. Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield.

Michelle Inderbitzin, Kelly Fawcett, Christopher Uggen, and Kristin A. Bates. 2007. "'Revolutions May Go Backwards': The Persistence of Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States." Pages 37-53 in Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States, edited by Kristin A. Bates and Richelle S. Swan. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

Christopher Uggen and Sara Wakefield. 2007. “What Have We Learned from Longitudinal Studies of Adolescent Employment and Crime?” Pages 189-218 in The Long View of Crime: A Synthesis of Longitudinal Research, edited by Akiva Liberman. New York: Springer.

Darren Wheelock and Christopher Uggen. 2007. "Race, Poverty and Punishment: The Impact of Criminal Sanctions on Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Inequality." Prepared for publication in The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist, edited by David Harris and Ann Chih Lin for the National Poverty Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

Angela Behrens, Christopher Uggen, and Jeff Manza. 2006. “Felon Disenfranchisement." Forthcoming in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties. New York: Routledge.

Christopher Uggen and Sara Wakefield. 2005. “Young Adults Reentering the Community from the Criminal Justice System: Challenges to Adulthood.” Pages 114-144 in On Your Own Without a Net: The Transition to Adulthood for Vulnerable Populations, edited by D. Wayne Osgood, E. Michael Foster, Constance Flanagan, and Gretchen R. Ruth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Christopher Uggen, Sara Wakefield, and Bruce Western. 2005. “Work and Family Perspectives on Reentry.” Pages 209-243 in Prisoner Reentry and Public Safety in America, edited by Jeremy Travis and Christy Visher. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2005. “Disenfranchisement and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons.” Pages 67-84 in Civil Penalties, Social Consequences, edited by Christopher Mele and Teresa Miller. New York: Routledge. [pdf] [copyright]

Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2004. “Lost Voices: The Civic and Political Views of Disfranchised Felons.” Pages 165-204 in Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration, edited by Mary Pattillo, David Weiman, and Bruce Western. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. [pdf] [copyright]

Jeremy Staff, Jeylan Mortimer, and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Work and Leisure in Adolescence.” Pages 429-450 in The Handbook of Adolescent Psychology, edited by Richard Lerner and Laurence Steinberg. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Angela Behrens. 2004. “Less than the Average Citizen: Stigma, Role Transition, and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons.” Pages 258-290 in After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to Offender Reintegration, edited by Shadd Maruna and Russ Immarigeon. Cullompton, Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]

Christopher Uggen and Michael Massoglia. 2003. “Desistance from Crime as a Turning Point in the Life Course.” Pages 311-29 in Handbook of the Life Course, edited by Jeylan T. Mortimer and Michael J. Shanahan. New York: Plenum Publishing. [abstract]

Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. 2002. “Life Course Theories.” Pages 1008-12 in Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. [abstract]

Christopher Uggen. 2001. “Crime and Class.” Volume 5, pages 2906-10 in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. New York: Elsevier. [abstract]

Christopher Uggen and Melissa Thompson. 2001. “Prevention: Juveniles as Potential Offenders.” Pages 1152-55 in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. New York: MacMillan. [abstract]


reviews, commentary, and short pieces

Christopher Uggen. 2007. “Deviance in the Real World,” “Journaling Interns -- Tell them to Write it All Down,” and course syllabus in Bruce Hoffman (ed.) Teaching the Sociology of Deviance (6th Edition). Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.

Christopher Uggen. 2006. “The Disenfranchised of History … and Now.” Wall Street Journal, September 2, p. A9, Letters section.

Christopher Uggen and Mike Vuolo. 2006. “Getting the Truth about Consequences.” Amici: Newsletter of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association 13:6-8.

Christopher Uggen. 2005. “Editorial Comment” as guest editor for special issue on Collateral Consequences of Criminal Sanctions. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 21:4-5.

Christopher Uggen. 2005. “Public Criminologies and Sociological Education.” Sociological Education award address. Sociograph 23 (1): 7.

Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Where Tough Guys Go.” Review of Laub and Sampson’s Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives. Contexts 3: 64-66.

Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “The President Is Right: Ex-Felons Need Aid.” Newsday, February 5, p. A33, Op-Ed section.

Reprinted 2004 under various titles, e.g., "Ex-cons Deserve a Chance to Right their Lives."

Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2003. “They've Paid Their Debt; Let Them Vote.” Los Angeles Times, July 18, p. B15, Op-Ed section.

Reprinted 2003 under various titles.

Christopher Uggen. 2003. “Criminology and the Sociology of Deviance.” The Criminologist 28:1-5. [pdf]

Christopher Uggen. 2002. “Crime and Punishment to the Core.” Brief invited comment on Western and Pettit. Contexts 1:4.


technical reports and working papers

Christopher Uggen. 2006. Felon Disenfranchisement in Minnesota.

Christopher Uggen and Melissa Thompson. 1999. National Institute of Justice Final Report: Careers in Crime and Substance Use.

Christopher Uggen, Irving Piliavin, and Ross Matsueda. [publication date and status unknown]. "Jobs Programs and Criminal Desistance." Written for The Potential of Publicly Funded Jobs Programs, edited by D. Lee Bawden and Robert Lerman. Washington D.C.: Urban Institute Press.

papers under review

Christopher Uggen and Michael Massoglia. “Settling Down and Aging Out: Desistance from Crime as a Separate Facet of the Transition to Adulthood.”

Teresa Swartz, Amy Blackstone, and Christopher Uggen. "Welfare and Citizenship: The Effects of Government Assistance on Voting Behavior." [revise and resubmit]

Christopher Uggen and Michelle Inderbitzin. "Public Criminologies." [revise and resubmit]

Elaine Hernandez and Christopher Uggen. “Stigma, Strain, and Partisan Politics: Sources of Variation in Mental Health Parity Laws.”

Amy Blackstone and Christopher Uggen. "Sexual Harassment and Legal Mobilization in Adolescence and Young Adulthood." [revise and resubmit]

Jason N. Houle, Jeremy Staff, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. “The Psychological Impact of Sexual Harassment During the Early Occupational Career.”

Amy Blackstone, Jason N. Houle, and Christopher Uggen. “’At the time, I thought it was Great’: Sexual Harassment and the Transition to Adulthood.” [revise and resubmit]

Jesse Wozniak and Christopher Uggen. “Real Men Use Non-Lethals: Hegemonic Masculinity and the Framing of Police Weaponry." [revise and resubmit]


work in progress


“Parenthood and Desistance from Crime” with Sara Wakefield (draft available).

"Differential Criminal Participation and Remuneration" with Melissa Thompson (draft available).

“Music And Drugs: A Fixed Effects Analysis of Cultural Preferences and Substance Use in U.S. Radio Markets” with Mike Vuolo (draft available).

“Voting and the Civic Reintegration of Former Prisoners” with Shelly Schaefer (draft available).

“A Survey and Analysis of Programs for Inmate Fathers: Basic Questions and Future Directions” with Sarah Shannon and Sara Wakefield.

grants

external research grants

2007-09 National Science Foundation. “Gender Differences in the Causes and Consequences of Drug Use.” [Co-PI with Melissa Thompson]. $108,074 ($24,700 at Minnesota). 5/13/07-4/29/09.

2007-08 National Institute of Justice. “The Effects of Low-Level Offense Records and Race on Employability” [PI with The Council on Crime and Justice]. $35,000.

2007-08 JEHT Foundation. “The Effects of Low-Level Offense Records and Race on Employability” [PI with The Council on Crime and Justice]. $265,300 ($80,000 at University). 5/1/07-10/31/08.

2006-07 The Sentencing Project. “Voting and Civic Reintegration in Oregon.” [Co-PI with Michelle Inderbitzin]. $5,500. 6/1/06-5/31/07.

2002-07 NIH - National Institute of Mental Health and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. “Work Experience and Mental Health: A Panel Study of Youth” [Co-Investigator with Jeylan Mortimer (PI) et al.]. Approximately $311,457 annually. 7/1/02-6/30/07.

2005 National Institute on Drug Abuse/National Institutes of Health. “Peers, Parents, and Media: Effects on Youth Substance Use.” $67,917. 1/1/06-12/31/06. Not funded.

2004 Russell Sage Foundation. “Adding Criminal History Information to the 2004 General Social Survey” [Co-Investigator with Jeff Manza, Devah Pager, and Tom Smith]. $36,000. Not funded.

2000-02 Soros Foundation. Open Society Institute Individual Project Fellowship [with Jeff Manza, Northwestern]. $101,164 ($50,602 at Minnesota). 7/1/00-12/31/02.

1999-02 National Science Foundation. “Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement.” [with Jeff Manza, Northwestern] $210,000 ($101,570 at Minnesota). 6/1/99-12/31/02.

1998-99 National Institute of Justice. “Careers in Crime and Substance Use.” $45,903.

1998-02 NIH - National Institute of Mental Health. “Work Experience and Mental Health: A Panel Study of Youth.” [Co-Investigator with Jeylan Mortimer (PI) and Michael Finch]. Approximately $145,468 annually. 5/1/99-2/28/02.

 

internal

2008-09 Undergraduate Research Opportunity. “Effect of Vitamin-D Supplementation on the Mental Health and Behavior of Prison Inmates” [Co-Investigator with Lindsey Merritt].

2006-07 College of Liberal Arts. “Minnesota Exits and Entries Project.” $65,000. [with Candace Kruttschnitt and faculty and graduate student collaborators].

2006 Graduate Research Partnership. "Why Did They Attack Us? Extending Stark's Theory of Police Riots." 5/29/06-8/27/06. [with Jesse Wozniak]. $5,948.

2005 Graduate Research Partnership. “Do Former Felons Vote? Turnout among Prison Releasees 1978 to 2004.” [with Shelly Schaefer]. $5,269. 5/26/05-8/22/05.

2004-06 Life Course Center. “Age, Gender, and Sexual Harassment in Japan and the United States.” [with Chika Shinohara]. Research assistance.

2004 Graduate Research Partnership Program. “Musical Preferences and Drug Consumption.” [with Michael Vuolo]. $5,270. Not funded in 2004, planning external resubmission. 5/24/04-8/20/04.

2003 Graduate Research Partnership. “The Effect of Children on Crime and Recidivism.” [with Sara Wakefield]. $5,269. 5/26/03-8/22/03.

2003 Sociology/College of Liberal Arts. Underrepresented Graduate Partnership. “Collateral Civil Penalties and Consequences.” [with Darren Wheelock]. $3,750. 5/26/03-8/24/03.

2002 Graduate Research Partnership. Sexual Harassment in Adolescence and Adulthood.” [with Amy Blackstone] $7,951.

2002 Undergraduate Research Opportunity. “Racial Threat and Changes in Felon Disfranchisement Law in the United States, 1850-2000.” [with Angela Behrens] $1,661. Spring 2002.

2001 Undergraduate Research Opportunity. “The Diffusion of Anti-Discrimination Legislation Based on Sexual Orientation.” [with Brian Duginske]. $1,650.

2000 Life Course Center. “Sexual Harassment and Legal Mobilization in Adolescence and Young Adulthood.” Semester research assistance.

1999 Undergraduate Research Opportunity. “Employee Theft and Career Goals.” [with Jessica Huiras]. $1,100.

1998 Undergraduate Research Opportunity. “Trends in Equal Employment Opportunity Complaints” [with Sara Wakefield]. $1,080.

1996-98 Graduate School Grant-in-Aid. “Adolescent Employment, Status Origins, and Deviant Behavior.” $14,050.

1997 Faculty Summer Research Fellowship. “Age, Crime, and the School-to-Work Transition: A Comparative Analysis.” $5,000.

1996-97 Life Course Center. “Status Origins, Youth Employment, and Deviance.” Single quarter research assistance.

1995-96 Graduate School Grant-in-Aid. “Work, Crime, and Drug Use: A Life Course Model of Desistance from Deviant Roles.” $13,080.

 

recent presentations (since 2000)

invited talks

• Harvard University, “Exits, Entries, and Public Criminologies.” May 14, 2008
• University of California – Irvine, “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” January 15, 2008
• Minnesota legislature reentry working group, “Employment and Crime,” October 27, 2007.
• Stanford University, “Incarceration and Poverty,” Debate with Larry Bobo. May 11, 2007.
• Cornell University. “A Survey and Analysis of Programs for Inmate Fathers: Basic Questions and Future Directions.” Ithaca. April 14, 2007.
• Stanford University, “Half my Exes are Successes.” Stanford. April 11, 2007.
• University of Chicago, “Public Criminologies.” Chicago. October 27, 2006.
• John Jay College, “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” New York. June 16, 2006.
• Demos, “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” New York. May 18, 2006.
• National Coalition on Violence Research, “Subjective Desistance in the Transition to Adulthood.” Washington, DC. May 4, 2006.
• Pennsylvania State University, “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” State College. April 28, 2006.
• University of Pennsylvania, “Felon Disenfranchisement and Civic Reintegration.” Philadelphia. April 27, 2006.
• Washington State University, “Felon Disenfranchisement,” October 21, 2005.
• Macalester College, “Felon Disenfranchisement,” October 18, 2005.
• HIRED, St. Paul. “Work, Crime, and Adulthood.” July 5, 2005.
• University of Maryland. Economics of Crime and Justice Policy Series. “Desistance from Crime and the Transition to Adulthood.” College Park. March 16, 2005.
• University of Wisconsin Department of Sociology. “Public Criminologies and the Life Course.” Madison. December 17, 2004.
• Princeton University Department of Sociology. “Public Criminologies - Crime and the Transition to Adulthood.” December 6, 2004.
• “Illegal Earnings Imperatives” and “Sexual Harassment and Legal Consciousness.” University of California, Davis. Davis. November 4-5, 2004.
• Northwestern University Department of Sociology and law school. October 14, 2004.
• Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality. “Race and Felon Disenfranchisement.” Ithaca. September 10, 2004.
• Duke University Department of Sociology. “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” September 3, 2004.
• Ohio State University Department of Sociology Inequality Symposium. “Race and Felon Disenfranchisement.” Columbus. July 22, 2004.
• University of Michigan National Poverty Center. Ann Arbor. “Crime, Punishment, and Poverty.” [with Darren Wheelock] June 11, 2004.
• “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” North Carolina State University Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Raleigh. March 26, 2004.
• University of California, Berkeley Department of Sociology. “Public Criminologies.” Berkeley. March 18, 2004.
• National Consortium on Violence Research Roundtable on Reentry of Prisoners to Society. “Prisoner Reentry” panel discussion. Pittsburgh. December 15, 2003.
• “Civic Reinvestment” panel discussion. The Brooklyn Prisoner Reentry Conference. Brooklyn. December 1, 2003.
• New York University Law School. “Voting and Subsequent Crime and Arrest: Evidence from a Community Sample.” [with Jeff Manza] New York. October 10, 2003.
• University of Iowa Department of Sociology. “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” Iowa City. May 2, 2003.
• Columbia University. “Ballot Manipulation and the ‘Menace of Negro Domination’: Racial Threat and Felon Disfranchisement.” New York. April 11, 2003.
• University at Buffalo Law School. “Perspectives on Civil Disabilities: Felon Disfranchisement.” Buffalo. October 18, 2002.
• National Symposium on Felony Disfranchisement. “Political Impact of Felon Disfranchisement.” Washington, D.C. September 30, 2002.
• U.S.-Japan Foundation. “America’s Criminal Class in Perspective.” Seattle. August 17, 2002.
• Demos Election Reform Spotlight on Voting Rights. “Political Consequences of Felon Disfranchisement.” Atlanta. June 14, 2002.
• University of Washington Department of Sociology. “Felon Disfranchisement and the Civic Reintegration of Criminal Offenders.” Seattle. April 11, 2002.
• Urban Institute. “Barriers to Democratic Participation.” Washington D.C. March 20, 2002.
• Russell Sage Foundation. “Labor Market Effects of Employer Access to Criminal History Records.” New York. [with Shawn Bushway] March 9, 2001.
• University of Wisconsin Department of Sociology. “The Socioeconomic and Civic Reintegration of Criminal Offenders.” Madison. February 9, 2001.
• Economic Policy Institute. “Work as a Turning Point for Released Offenders.” United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., December 6, 2000.
• National Institute of Justice working group. “Crime and Labor Markets.” Washington, D.C., 1999.


didactic seminars

• “Designing Research to Answer Criminal Justice Questions.” Half-day seminar for Bureau of Justice Statistics Justice Research and Statistics Association. Minneapolis. [lwith Barbara McMorris] October 31, 2000.


professional meetings

• “What Happens When Probationers and Parolees Vote? Community Supervision and Civic Reintegration.” Am. Society of Crim. Atlanta. [with Michelle Inderbitzin and Mike Vuolo] November 16, 2007.
• “Author Meets Critics: Locked Out.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. New York [with Jeff Manza] August 11, 2007.
• “Citizens, Felons, and Civic Reintegration in Oregon.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. New York [with Michelle Inderbitzin and Mike Vuolo] August 13, 2007.
• “Blogs as a Forum for Public Sociology.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. New York. August 14, 2007.
• “Inequality, Political Participation, and Civic Reintegration.” Am. Society of Crim. Los Angeles. [with Michelle Inderbitzin] November 3, 2006.
• “Restore Voting Rights?” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. November 2, 2006.
• “Author Meets Critic: Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” Am. Society of Crim. Mtgs. Los Angeles. [with Jeff Manza] November 2, 2006.
• “Author Meets Critics: Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” Social Science History Mtgs. Minneapolis. [with Jeff Manza] November 3, 2006.
• “Felon Occupational Restrictions and Race Gaps in Wages and Employment.” Am. Society of Crim. Mtgs. Los Angeles. [with Darren Wheelock] November 1, 2006.
• “Public Criminologies.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Philadelphia. [with Michelle Inderbitzin] August 13, 2006.
• “Voting and the Civic Reintegration of Former Prisoners. Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Philadelphia. [with Shelly Schaefer] August 13, 2006.
• “Criminal Castes, Classes, and Status Groups.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Philadelphia. August 12, 2006.
• “Punishment and Social Exclusion: National Differences in Prisoner
Disenfranchisement.” Law and Society Mtgs. Baltimore, MD. [with Mischelle van
Brakle] July, 2006.
• “Music and Drugs: A Fixed Effects Analysis of Cultural Preferences and Substance Use in US Radio Markets.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Philadelphia. [with Michael Vuolo] August 16, 2005.
• “Age, Gender, and Sekuhara in Japan and the United States.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Philadelphia. [with Chika Shinohara] August 16, 2005.
• Author meets critics panelist for John Laub and Robert Sampson. Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Nashville. November 19, 2004.
• “Young Adults Entering the Community from the Criminal Justice System: The Challenge of Becoming and Adult.” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Nashville. [with Sara Wakefield] November 19, 2004.
• “Socioeconomic Determinants of Offense Selection: Conventional and Criminal Embeddedness as Predictors of Offense Type.” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Denver. [with Melissa Thompson] November 19, 2004.
• “Collateral Consequences and Racial Inequality.” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Denver. [with Darren Wheelock] November 19, 2004.
• “Subjective Desistance and the Transition to Adulthood.” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Denver. [with Michael Massoglia] November 17, 2004.
• “Public Criminologies and Sociological Education.” Sociologists of Minnesota Sociological Education award address, Red Wing, MN. October 8, 2004.
• “Welfare and Citizenship: The Effects of Government Assistance on Voting Behavior.” Am. Soc. Assn. Mtgs. San Francisco. [with Teresa Swartz and Amy Blackstone] August 17, 2004.
• “Having a Kid Changes Everything? The Effects of Parenthood on Subsequent Crime.” Am. Soc. Assn. Mtgs. San Francisco. [with Sara Wakefield] August 16, 2004.
• “Parenthood and Criminal Offending.” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Denver. [with Sara Wakefield] November 19, 2003.
• “Ballot Manipulation and the ‘Menace of Negro Domination’: Racial Threat and Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Atlanta. [with Angela Behrens and Jeff Manza] August 17, 2003.
• “Desistance from Crime as a Separate Facet of the Transition to Adulthood.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Atlanta. [with Michael Massoglia] August 17, 2003.
• “Civil Death or Civil Rights? Public Attitudes toward Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Atlanta. [with Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks] August 18, 2003.
• “Deciding to Tell: Mobilizing in Response to Sexual Harassment.” Law and Society Assn. Mtgs. [with Amy Blackstone] June 5, 2003.
• “Settling Down and Aging Out: Desistance from Crime as a Turning Point in the Life Course.” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Chicago. [with Mike Massoglia] November 15, 2002.
• “Sexual Harassment in the Transition to Adulthood: Content and Context.” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Chicago. [with Amy Blackstone] November 15, 2002.
• “The Fruits of Good Work: Job Quality and Adolescent Deviance.” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Chicago. [with Jeremy Staff] November 14, 2002.
• “Multi-Agency Collaborations and Youth Homicide: The Origins and Potential Effectiveness of Gang Task Forces.” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Chicago. [with Julie Barrows] November 13, 2002.
• “Ballot Manipulation and the ‘Menace of Negro Domination’: Racial Threat and Felon Disfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2000.” Midwest Law & Society Retreat. Madison, Wisconsin. September 28, 2002.
• “If I Were Queen or King: Future Directions in the Sociology of Deviance.” Invited presentation. Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Chicago. August 18, 2002.
• “Less than the Average Citizen: Stigma, Role Transition, and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Chicago. [with Angela Behrens] August 16, 2002.
• “Age, Work Quality, and Deviance.” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Atlanta. [with Jeremy Staff] November 8, 2001.
• “Locking Up the Vote: Felon Disfranchisement and American Politics.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Anaheim. [with Jeff Manza] August 20, 2001.
• “Sexual Harassment in Adolescence and Adulthood: Victimization and Mobilization.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Anaheim. [with Amy Blackstone] August 21, 2001.
• “Criminal Disfranchisement and Voter Turnout in the United States.” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. San Francisco. [with Jeff Manza] November 18, 2000.
• “Crime, Class, and Reintegration: The Socioeconomic, Familial, and Civic Lives of Offenders.” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. San Francisco. [with Jeff Manza and Melissa Thompson] November 18, 2000.
• “Political Consequences of Felon Disfranchisement in the United States” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Washington, D.C. [with Jeff Manza] August 6, 2000.


other activities at professional meetings

• Author Meets Critic Session. "What Works in Corrections: Reducing the Criminal Activities of Offenders and Delinquents," by Doris MacKenzie. Am. Soc. Of Criminology Mtgs. Atlanta. 2007
• Discussant, Session on “Gangs, Work, and Crime,” Am. Soc. Of Criminology Mtgs.
Toronto. 2005.
Discussant, Session on “Sociolegal Control Efforts,” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs.
Philadelphia. 2005.
Organizer, Session on “Punishment and Confinement,” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Philadelphia. 2005.
• Organizer, Session on “Public Criminologies,” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. San Francisco. 2004.
• Program Committee, Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. (chairperson of Stability, Change, and Desistance area), Nashville. 2004.
• Organizer and Presider, Session on “Race, Families, and Crime” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Denver. 2003.
• Presenter, A.J. Reiss Distinguished Scholar Award, Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Atlanta. 2003.
• Program Committee, Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Denver. 2003.
• Division Chair, Life Course Studies. Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Atlanta. 2001.
• Organizer and Presider, Panel Session on Crime and Delinquency. Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Washington DC. 2000.
• Chair and Presider, “Class, Crime, and Victimization.” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. San Diego.1997.
• Organizer and Presider, “Life Course Studies of Crime and Desistance.” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Chicago. 1996.
• Presider and Discussant, “Ecological Perspectives on Crime Causation.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. New York. 1996.
• Organizer and Presider, “Work, Crime, and Imprisonment,” Am. Soc. of Criminology Mtgs. Phoenix. 1993.

recent minnesota presentations

• Featured speaker. “Silenced Voices: the constitutionality and legality of felon disenfranchisement provisions.” Law School. January 28, 2006.
Voting rights panelist. “Bringing Human Rights Back Home.” Law School. December 9, 2005.
HIRED. "Work, Crime, and Adulthood." July 5, 2005.
• “Music and Drugs: A Fixed Effects Analysis of Cultural Preferences and Substance Use in the Top 100 U.S. Radio Markets, 1998-2002.” Sociology. [planned]
• “Sexual Harassment and Legal Consciousness.” Sociology. January 20, 2004.
• “Political Impact of America’s Criminal Class.” Elder Learning Institute. May 6, 2003.
• “Political Consequences of Felony Disfranchisement Laws.” Sociology. March 2, 2001.
• “Sexual Harassment in the Transition to Adulthood.” Life Course Center. December 1, 2000.
• Discussant for Governor Arne Carlson, Life Course Center. 1999.
• Invited speaker for “Campus Preview Days” (1998; 1999; 2001)

 

teaching

courses taught and evaluation scores (1-7 scale*) [pdf]

 

Course Term

Overall
Teaching

Knowledge of Subject Respect & Concern
4141-Juv Delinq. Spr 07
6.4
6.7
6.7
4111-Deviance Fall 06
6.7
6.9
6.9
8001-Soc. as Prof. Spring 06
6.8
7.0
6.8
8001-Soc. as Prof. Fall 05
6.9
6.9
6.7
4111-Deviance Fall 05
6.6
6.9
6.8
8001-Soc. as Prof. Spring 05
6.8
6.8
7.0
4141-Juv. Delinq. Spring 05
6.5
6.9
6.8
8111- Crim. Sem. Spring 05
6.6
6.9
6.8
8001-Soc. as Prof. Fall 04
6.8
6.8
7.0
4141-Juv. Delinq. Spring 04
6.5
6.9
6.8
4111- Deviance Spring 04
6.6
6.9
6.8
4141-Juv. Delinq. Spring 02
6.2
6.5
6.5
4978-Sr. Honors II
Spring 01
6.7
6.7
6.9
4977-Sr. Honors I Fall 00
6.6
6.9
6.9
3811-Statistics
Spring 00
6.1
6.6
6.4
3991-Jr. Honors
Spring 00
6.3
6.9
6.7
4141-Juv. Delinq.
Fall 99  
6.0
6.4
6.5
3802-Statistics II
Spring 99
5.9 
6.4
6.1
8105-Crime Sem.
Spring 99
6.6
6.8
6.4
3801-Statistics I
Winter 99
5.8
6.4
6.5
5960-Topics
Spring 98
6.3
6.4
6.7
3802-Statistics II
Spring 98
6.2
6.6
6.6
5141-Juv. Delinq.
Winter 98
5.9
6.4
6.4
3801-Statistics I
Winter 98
6.2
6.5
6.5
3802-Statistics II
Winter 97
6.0
6.6
6.3
5141-Juv. Delinq.
Winter 97
5.7
6.2
5.6
5966-Sr. Projects
Fall 96  
6.6
6.7
6.5
3801-Statistics I
Fall 96
5.9
6.3
6.4
5966-Sr. Projects
Spring 96
6.0
6.4
6.5
5141-Juv. Delinq.
Winter 96
6.1
6.3
6.5

Grand Means

1996-2005
6.3
6.7
6.6
* Based on 7-point scale with 7 representing “exceptional” and 1 “very poor.”

teaching honors

2004 Sociological Education Award, Sociologists of Minnesota
2001
Outstanding Faculty Award, Mortar Board National Honor Society (for superior dedication to undergraduate research)
1999 College Nominee, Morse Alumni University Teaching Award
1999 Student Board Nominee, College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Faculty Award
1998 Faculty Mentor Award, University of Minnesota Department of Sociology

other teaching interests

Stratification and Inequality, Sociology of Law, Methods and Statistics

supervision of students

graduate advising

Heather Hlavka (Ph.D. Co-Advisor), Asst. Prof., Marquette University
Sara Wakefield (2007 Ph.D. Advisor), Asst. Prof., University of California-Irvine
Andrew Odubote (2007 Ph.D. Advisor), Asst. Prof., Bethel University
Michael Massoglia (2005 Ph.D. Advisor), Asst. Prof., Pennsylvania State University
Darren Wheelock (2006 Ph.D. Co-Advisor), Asst. Prof., Marquette University
Jeremy Staff (2004 Ph.D. Co-Advisor), Asst. Prof., Pennsylvania State University
Melissa Thompson (2003 Ph.D. Co-Advisor), Asst. Prof., Portland State University
Amy Blackstone (2003 Ph.D. Co-Investigator/RA), Asst. Prof., University of Maine
Mike Vuolo (Ph.D. Advisor)
Julie Barrows (Ph.D. Advisor)
Jesse Wozniak (Ph.D. Advisor)
• Shelly Schaefer (Ph.D. Co-Advisor)
• Cindy Crimmins (Ph.D. Co-Advisor)
Andrew Halpern-Manners (Initial Ph.D. Advisor)
• Heather McLaughlin (Initial Ph.D. Advisor)
• Lisette Haro (Initial Ph.D. Advisor)
• Jennifer C. Lee (Ph.D. committee)
• Kristin Carbone (Ph.D. committee)
• Naomi Isaacson (Ph.D. committee)
• Virginia Lane (Ph.D. committee)
• Deborah Eckberg (Ph.D. committee)
• Kenneth Wu Hopkins (Ph.D. committee)
• Ann Beutel (Ph.D. committee alternate)
• Donna Cernohous (M.A. Thesis committee)
• Kelly Shelton (M.A. Thesis committee)
• Glenna Siekert (M.A. Thesis committee)
• Jim Zaffiro (M.A. Thesis committee)
• Rebbeca Colwell (Geography, M.S. Thesis committee)
• Kristin Gallagher (Industrial Relations, M.A. Thesis committee)
• Amir Ijaz (Industrial Relations, M.A. Thesis committee)

graduate research supervision and independent readings

• Sarah Shannon, Social Work, 2006
• Shelly Schaefer, Sociology, 2005
• Sarah Walker, Political Science, 2005
• Valentine Namakula, Advisor to Humphrey International Fellow, 2004-2005
• Rebecca Colwell, Spring 2004
• Leon Dundas, Advisor to Humphrey International Fellow, 2003-2004
Sara Wakefield, Fall 2003
Darren Wheelock, Summer 2003
Amy Blackstone, Summer 2002
• Julie Barrows, Summer 2001
Jeremy Staff, Summer 2000
• Lori Schabo-Grabowski, Winter 1999 and Fall 1998
• Andrew Odubote, Spring and Summer 1998
• Anne Hoffman, Winter 1997
• Alexandra Goulding, Winter 1996
• Jaime Lugo (Geography), Winter 1996

undergraduate research

• Janelle Rainwater and Jessica Molina, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2008
Claudio Perez and Jessica Molina, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2007
Hayley Castro, Multicultural Summer Research Opportunities Program faculty advisor, 2007
Shannon Ryan, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2006
• Jessica Gonzalez, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2005
• Heather Anderson, Aubrie Beske, Tanisha Jones, Kimberly Gardner, Rick Kreyer, Trumaine Lindsey, Jr.,independent research, 2006
• Elisabeth Wells, Heather Leyse, Kimberly Gardner, Trumaine Lindsey, Jr., Independent Research 2005
• Sarah Davis, Adam Basil, Moua Xiong, Independent Research 2004
• Pamela Parnell, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2004
• Amanda Allen, Sean Elder, Gina Kubits, and Danielle Saracino, Independent senior projects, 2004
• Julie Korts, Corey Boyer, Chris Hogg, and Marsha Skalsky, Independent senior projects, 2003
• Justine Jones, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2003
• Angela Behrens, UROP, 2002 (published in American Journal of Sociology)
• Ebony Ruhland, McNair fellowship faculty advisor; senior project, 2002-3
• Danielle Riester, Senior project and independent study, 2002
• Michelle Lopez, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2001
• Stephanie Miller, MacArthur Honors Program Faculty Advisor, 2001
• Brian Duginske, UROP, 2001
• Les Andrist, Megan Carollo, Kelly Healey, Eric Hedberg, Martin Lloyd, and Ann Hewitt, Senior project and independent research, 2000
• Keia Johnson, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2000
• Janna Cheney, Honors project reader, 2000
• Shushanie Isaacson, Honors project reader, 1999 (ASA Sociology of Law section undergraduate award winner, college award nominee)
• Ryan King, Mark Fredkove, Honors project reader, 1999
• Molly Koscianski, Sara Miller, Michael Johnson, Michael Steiner, and Kelly Simons, Independent research, 1999
• Miriam Rea and Sindy Lopez, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 1999
• Jessica Huiras, UROP research, 1999 (published in Sociological Quarterly)
• Sara Peterson, Individualized major reader, 1998-99
• Shani Greene, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 1998
Sara Wakefield, UROP research, 1998 (published in Sociological Inquiry)
• Jeremy Blackowicz, Greg Gentz, and Sara Wakefield, Honors project reader, 1998
• Christopher Page and Bridget Cleary, Independent research, 1997
• Jennifer Halko, UROP research, 1997 (published in Social Forces)
• Chikako Sato, Kimberly Lemcke, Tina Platt, Senior project and independent research, 1997
• Rachel Greene, Tami Lin Grimmer, Andrea Andrews, Senior project and independent research, 1996
• Humara Ali, Individualized major reader, 1996
• Jennifer Holden and Jody Matteson, SPAN research project, 1996-8
• James Warren, Honors project reader, 1996
• Carolyn Murphy, Senior project and independent study, 1995-96

mentoring

• Kanika (Vic) Nhul, 2002-2003
• Melissa Buffalo, 1998-2000
• Seema Gundgavi, 1997-1999

service

professional activities

memberships in professional associations

American Society of Criminology, 1991-
American Sociological Association, 1992-
Law and Society Association, 2003-
• Sociological Research Association, 2004-

professional association activities

• Chair, New Article Award Committee, American Society of Criminology, 2004-2006
• Executive Secretary and Board Member, American Society of Criminology, 2003-2006; 2006-2008
• A.J. Reiss Distinguished Scholar Award Committee, American Sociological Association Crime, Law, and Deviance Section, 2002-2003
• Ruth Shonle Cavan Award Committee, American Society of Criminology, 2002-2003
• Candidate for Council, American Sociological Association Sociology of Law Section, 2002
• Life Course Division Chair, American Society of Criminology, 2001
• National Policy Committee, American Society of Criminology, 1998-1999
• Chair, Graduate Student Prize Committee, American Sociological Association, 1997
• Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, American Sociological Association Sociology of Law Section, 1996
•Undergraduate Award Committee, Midwest Sociological Society, 1996

editorial advisory boards

• Co-Editor, Contexts, Co-editor. 2008-2010. American Sociological Association's Contexts (with Doug Hartmann).
• Guest Editor, Criminology and Public Policy, 2008. The Effect of Criminal Background Checks on Hiring Ex-Offenders.
• Guest Editor, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, February 2005
• Associate Editor, Law and Society Review, 2003-2006
• Editorial Board, Criminology, 2003-2006; 2006-2009
• Editorial Board, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2006-2009
• Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 2001-2003
• Editorial Board, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1996-1999
• Student Advisory Board, American Sociological Review, 1992-1993

participation (of varying degrees) in working groups

• National Coalition on Violence Research (Presenter), 2003, 2006
Macarthur Network on the Transition to Adulthood, 2001 -
Russell Sage Foundation Mass Incarceration Working Group, 2000
Urban Institute Reentry Roundtable, 2002 –


expert testimony

• Minnesota legislature reentry working group, “Employment and Crime,” October 27, 2007.
• Minnesota Supreme Court Racial Fairness Committee. “Felon disenfranchisement,” November 29, 2006.
• Minnesota Senate, “Convicted felons civil rights and voting eligibility restoration,” Crime Prevention and Public Safety Committee, March 28, 2006.
• Minnesota Senate, Elections Committee, March 20, 2006.
• Johnson v. Bush, 2000-2004 (a federal class action lawsuit seeking to overturn an indefinite voting ban on ex-felons in Florida).
• “Work as a Turning Point for Released Offenders.” Economic Policy Institute. United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., December 6, 2000.

reviews

Grants: National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice, TESS: Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences

Journals: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Criminology, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, Law & Society Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, Social Science Research, Sociological Inquiry, Work and Occupations

Books: Temple University Press, Roxbury Publishing

Promotion and Tenure: University of Connecticut Department of Sociology, 2003; North Carolina State University Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 2005

university

college and university

College of Liberal Arts

o Council of Chairs and Chairs, Executives, Deans, and Directors (2006-)
o Geography Search Committee (2007-2008)
o Political Science Personnel Committee (4 searches in 2005-2006)
o Budget Affairs Committee (2003-2005)
o Assembly (1997-1998; 2001-2003; 2003-2005)
o Dean’s Recruiting Reception (2005)
o Assembly Co-Chair (2003-2004)
o Executive Committee (2003-2004)
o Chairs, Executives, Deans, and Directors Committee (2003-2004)
o Instructional Awards Committee (2001-2002)
o Information Technology Committee (1998-2001)

University

oGraduate School Faculty Summer Research Committee (2003-2004)
o Social Science Research Facility Advisory Committee (2003-present)
o Web Course Tools Advisory Committee (1999-2001)
o Campus Preview Days Faculty speaker (1998; 1999; 2001; 2004)
o President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program (1995-present)
o Commencement Representative (1995; 1999)

department

• Department Chair (2006- )
• Associate Chair (2004-2006)
• Personnel Committee Chair (2004-2005; 4 Searches in 2001-2002)
• Executive Committee (elected) (2001-2002; 2003-2004)
• Personnel Committee (1995-1996; 2003-2004)
• Graduate Admissions and Awards (1999-2000; 2000-2001)
• Qualifying Examination Committee (1998-1999)
• Ethics/Grievance Committee (1996-1997)
• Promotion, Tenure, and Salary Committee (1996-97; 1999-2000)
• Graduate Affairs Committee (1996-1998)
• Life Course Center Advisory Committee (1998-)
• Department representative at ASA (1999)

community and outreach affiliations

Sentencing Project (Washington, DC)
Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (Los Angeles)
• Wilhelm and Conlon/Safer Foundation (reentry programs) (Chicago)
Council on Crime and Justice (Minneapolis)
HIRED (Minneapolis)
Demos (New York)
Soros Foundation Open Society Institute (New York)
Minnesota Department of Corrections
Hennepin County (Minneapolis) Attorney's Office
• Volunteers in Probation
College for Kids
Future Problem Solving

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