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Christopher Uggen

Christopher Uggen

Distinguished McKnight Professor
Ph.D. 1995 University of Wisconsin, Madison
Room 1167 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

Criminal Records, Race, and Employment. NIJ and JEHT Foundation.

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

TheSocietyPages.org, editor and publisher, with Doug Hartmann.

Selected Publications

“Employment and Exile: U.S. Criminal Deportations, 1908-2005,” with Ryan King and Michael Massoglia. Forthcoming in American Journal of Sociology.

The Contexts Reader. 2nd ed., with Doug Hartmann. 2012. New York: W.W. Norton.

“Incarceration and the Health of the African American Community,” with Jason Schnittker and Michael Massoglia. 2011. Du Bois Review 8:133-41

“Settling Down and Aging Out: Toward an Interactionist Theory of Desistance and the Transition to Adulthood,” with Michael Massoglia. 2010. American Journal of Sociology 116:543-82.

“Public Criminologies,” with Michelle Inderbitzin. 2010. Criminology & Public Policy 9: 725-750.

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

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

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