Christopher Uggen

Distinguished McKnight Professor and Chair
Ph.D. 1995 University of Wisconsin, Madison
Room 909 Social Sciences
Office: 612-624-4016
email: uggen001@umn.edu
Web: www.chrisuggen.com

Interest Areas

Crime, Law, and Deviance; Life Course; Work and Occupations; Methods and Statistics.

Current Research

"The Effects of Low-Level Offense Records and Race on Employability," PI with The Council on Crime and Justice. National Institute of Justice and JEHT Foundation. 5/1/07-12/31/08.

"Gender Differences in the Causes and Consequences of Drug Use," Co-PI with Melissa Thompson. National Science Foundation. 5/13/07-4/29/09.

"Voting and Civic Reintegration in Oregon," Co-PI with Michelle Inderbitzin. The Sentencing Project. 6/1/06-12/31/07.

"Minnesota Exits and Entries Project," Co-PI. College of Liberal Arts. 10/1/06-6/30/08.

Recent Publications

"Subjective Desistance and the Transition to Adulthood," with Michael Massoglia. 2007. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 23:90-103.

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

"Sexual Harassment as a Gendered Expression of Power," with Amy Blackstone. 2004. American Sociological Review, 69: 64-92.

"Ballot Manipulation and the 'Menace of Negro Domination,'" with Angela Behrens and Jeff Manza. 2003. American Journal of Sociology, 109: 559-605.

"The Socioeconomic Determinants of Ill-Gotten Gains: Within-Person Changes in Drug Use and Illegal Earnings," with Melissa Thompson. 2003. American Journal of Sociology, 109: 146-85.

"Democratic Reversal? The Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States," with Jeff Manza. 2002. American Sociological Review, 67: 777-803.

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

"The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth," with Lauren Edelman and Howard Erlanger. 1999. American Journal of Sociology, 105: 406-54.