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Christopher Uggen

Christopher Uggen

Distinguished McKnight Professor and Chair
Contexts, Co-editor
Ph.D. 1995 University of Wisconsin, Madison
Room 909 Social Sciences
Phone: 612-624-4016
Email: uggen001@umn.edu
Website: www.chrisuggen.com

Curriculum Vitae

Interest Areas

Crime, Law, and Deviance; Life Course; Inequality; Methods.

Current Research

The Effects of Criminal Records and Race on Employability. 2008-2010.
NIJ and JEHT Foundation.

Incarceration and Health, with Jason Schnittker. 2010-2013. R.W. Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.

Selected Publications

“Settling Down and Aging Out: Toward an Interactionist Theory of Desistance and the Transition to Adulthood,” with Michael Massoglia. Forthcoming 2010. American Journal of Sociology.

“Public Criminologies,” with Michelle Inderbitzin. Forthcoming 2010. Criminology & Public Policy.

“Incarceration and Stratification,” with Sara Wakefield. 2010. Annual Review of Sociology 36:387-406.

“Sexual Harassment Comes of Age: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. and Japan,” with Chika Shinohara. 2009. The Sociological Quarterly 50:201-34.

“Legal Consciousness and Responses to Sexual Harassment,” with Amy Blackstone and Heather McLaughlin. 2009. Law & Society Review 43:631-68.

“Welfare and Citizenship: The Effects of Government Assistance on Voting Behavior,”with Teresa Swartz, Amy Blackstone, and Heather Mclaughlin. 2009. The Sociological Quarterly 50:633-65.

Book Cover: Locked OutLocked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy, with Jeff Manza. 2006. New York: Oxford University Press. Paperback 2008.

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