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.
"Minnesota Exits and Entries Project," Co-PI. College of Liberal Arts. 10/1/06-6/30/08.
Recent Publications
Co-editor. 2007-2010. Contexts (with Doug Hartmann).“Age, Gender, and Sekuhara in the United States and Japan,” with Chika Shinohara. Forthcoming 2008. The Sociological Quarterly.
"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.