Chris Uggen (pronounced
You-Gun) is Distinguished McKnight Professor of Sociology
at the University of Minnesota. He studies crime, law, and deviance, believing that good science can light the way to a more just and safer world. His writing
appears in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Law & Society Review and in media
such as the New York Times, The Economist, and NPR.
With Jeff Manza,
he wrote Locked
Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy. His research,
teaching,
and advising
interests include punishment and reentry, citizenship, substance use, discrimination, and health inequalities. His outreach and engagement projects include editing Contexts
Magazine (from 2007-2011) and The Society Pages (with Doug Hartmann) and Public Criminologies (with Michelle Inderbitzin and Sara Wakefield). Away from work, Chris is a father, a jogger,
and a blogger.