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Recent Books
2011
Broadbent, Jeffrey and Vicky Brockman (editors). 2011. East Asian Social Movements. New York: Springer.
Grodsky, Eric. 2011. Equal Opportunity in Higher Education: The Past and Future of California’s Proposition 209. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press.
Hartmann, Douglas and Christopher Uggen (editors). 2011. Contexts: A Reader. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton.
Logan, Enid. 2011. “At This Defining Moment”: Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy, the Triumphal Nation, and the Perils and Promises of the New Politics of Race. New York University Press.
Page, Joshua A. 2011. The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California. New York: Oxford University Press (Series: “Crime and Public Policy”).
Park, Lisa Sun-Hee. 2011. Entitled to Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform. New York University Press.
Park, Lisa Sun-Hee and David Pellow. 2011. Slums of Aspen: The War Against Immigrants in America’s Eden. New York University Press.
Samaha, Joel. 2011. Criminal Law 10th Edition. Belmont CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
Savelsberg, Joachim and Ryan D. King. 2011. American Memories: Atrocities and the Law. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.
2010
Nagle, Joane, Thomas Dietz, and Jeffrey Broadbent. 2010. Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association and National Science Foundation.
Baer, Alejandro. 2010. “Anthropology & Human Rights” (Spanish) Special Issue of Revista de Antropologia Social, edited with M.J. Devillard.
Gowan, Teresa. 2010. Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Preeves, Sharon E. and Jeylan T. Mortimer. 2010. Classic and Comtemporary Perspectives in Social Psychology: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Samaha, Joel. 2010. Criminal Procedure 8th edition. Belmont CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
Samaha, Joel. 2010. Criminal Law 10th edition. Belmont CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
Savelsberg, Joachim. 2010. Crime and Human Rights: Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities. London: Sage.
Schurman, Rachel, and William A Munro. 2010. Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
2008
Bian, Yanjie and Li Lulu ed.. 2008. Institutional Transformation and the Dynamics of Social Stratification in Urban China. Beijing: Renmin University of China Press.
Bian, Yanjie, Li Lulu, and Xiaogang Wu ed. 2008. Social Stratification and Mobility: Overseas Researchers’ New Advancements and Analyses of China. Beijing: Renmin University of China.
Knoke, David and Song Yang. 2008. Social Network Analysis, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Mortimer, Jeylan ed. 2008. Social Class and Transitions to Adulthood: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Special issue 119. Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Gould, Kenneth, David N. Pellow, and Allan Schnaiberg. 2008. The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Samaha, Joel. 2008. Criminal Procedure, 7th edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.
Samaha, Joel. 2008. Criminal Law, 9th edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.
Samaha, Joel. 2008. Criminal Justice, 7th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
2007
Gerteis, Joseph. 2007. Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Calhoun, Craig, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff and Indermohan Virk eds. 2007. Classical Sociological Theory, Second Edition. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Hartmann, Doug and Stephen Cornell. 2007. Ethnicity and Race, Second Edition: Making Identities in a Changing World. Pine Forge Press.
Shanahan, Michael and Ross Macmillan. 2007. Biography and the Sociological Imagination: Contexts and Contingencies. Contemporary Societies Series. New York: W. W. Norton and Company.
Pellow, David. 2007. Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2006
Bian, Yanjie, Anne Tsui, and Leonard Cheng ed. 2006. The Management and Performance of China’s Domestic Private Firms: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives. New York: M.E. Sharpe.
Hull, Kathy. 2006. Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Macmillan, Ross ed. 2006. Advances in Life Course Research: lsquo;Constructing Adulthood’: Agency and Subjectivity in the life course. Volume 11. New York, NY: Elsevier.
Malmquist, Carl. 2006. Homicide: A Psychiatric Perspective, 2nd Ed. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Savelsberg, Joachim. 2006. Criminal Courts. Co-edited with J. Dixon & A. Kupchik. Ashgate.
Manza, Jeff and Chris Uggen. 2006. Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy. New York: Oxford.
2005
Edgell, Penny. 2005. Religion and Family in a Changing Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Goldman, Michael. 2005. Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press. Awarded the 2008 best book prize from the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association.
Moen, Phyllis. 2005. The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream with Patricia Roehling. Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield.
Park, Lisa. 2005. Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs. Pal Alto: Stanford University Press.
Swartz, Teresa. 2005. Parenting for the State: An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care. New York: Routledge.
2003
Hartmann, Douglas. 2003. Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Moen, Phyllis. 2003. It’s About Time: Couples and Careers. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Mortimer, Jeylan. 2003. Working and Growing up in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Schurman, Rachel ed. 2003. Engineering Trouble: Biotechnology and its Discontents. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.
2002
Park, Lisa and David Pellow. 2002. Silicon Valley of Dreams: Immigrant Labor, Environmental Injustice, and the High Tech Global Economy. New York: New York University Press.
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Faculty News
Goldman Wins CLA Teaching Award
Michael Goldman received one of two Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Awards for 2012-13. This award recognizes faculty who are outstanding teachers of graduate and undergraduate students in the College of Liberal Arts. He will be recognized at a special event in 2013-14.
May 23rd, 2013Two Top Journals Coming to Minnesota!
Joachim Savelsberg and Timothy Johnson (Political Science) have accepted coeditorship of Law & Society Review (LS&R). This is the journal of the Law & Society Association and regarded by socio-legal scholars worldwide as a leading publication for work bearing on the relationship between society and the legal process.
John "Rob" Warren will be the editor of Sociology of Education (SOE), a journal of the American Sociological Association. This is the top ranked publication in education research. They publish research that examines how social institutions and individuals' experiences within these institutions affect educational processes and social development.
February 27th, 2013
