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Joachim J. Savelsberg

Protrait: Joachim J. Savelsberg

Professor
Dr. rer. pol. 1982 University of Trier, FRG
Room 1144 Social Sciences
Phone: 612-624-0273
Email: savel001@umn.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Interest Areas

Knowledge; Law, Crime & Punishment; Human Rights; Comparative; Theory.

Current Research

Collective Representations and Memories of Atrocities after Judicial Intervention: Darfur in International Comparison" NSF.

Selected Publications

"Atrocities, Law and Collective Memory," with Ryan D. King. Forthcoming 2011. (ASA Rose Monograph Series.) New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.

"Franz Kafka: Bureaucracy, Law and Abuses of the 'Iron Cage'." Forthcoming 2010. In Sociological Insights of Great Thinkers: Sociology through Literature, Philosophy, and Science, edited by C. Edling and J. Rydgren, Oxford: Praeger

"Collins Meets Criminology: Intellectual Change in a Policy-oriented Field," with Sarah M. Flood. Forthcoming. Sociological Forum.

"Globalization and States of Punishment." Forthcoming. In Comparative Criminology and Globalization, edited by D. Nelken. Farnham: Ashgate.

Book Cover: Crime and Human RightsCrime and Human Rights: Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities. 2010. London: Sage.

"The Social Organization of Denial and Acknowledgement." 2008. Actes de la Recherche en Science Sociales, 173: 110-118.

"Law and Collective Memory," with Ryan D. King. 2007. Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences, 3: 189-211.

"Human Rights Violations, Law, and Collective Memory: Toward a Research Agenda." 2007. Tempo Social 19:13-37.

"Institutionalizing Collective Memories of Hate: Law and Law Enforcement in Germany and the United States," with Ryan D. King. 2005. American Journal of Sociology, 111: 579-616. (Awards: Law and Society Association, 2006; ASA Section on Culture, 2007).