curriculum vitae
University of Minnesota Department of Sociology 909 Social Sciences 267 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 education
1995 Ph.D. Sociology, University of Wisconsin.
Advisor: Ross Matsueda. Major: Criminology, Stratification. Minor: Industrial Relations
1990 M.S. Sociology, University of Wisconsin [Entered graduate school 1989]
1986 B.A. Behavioral Science and Law / Criminal Justice, University of Wisconsin.2006- Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota.
- Department Chair (2006-09 term)
2005-2006 Professor. Sociology, University of Minnesota.
2001-2005 Associate Professor. Sociology, University of Minnesota.
- McKnight Presidential Fellow (2001-04)
- Associate Department Chair (2004-06)
1995-2001 Assistant Professor. Sociology, University of Minnesota.
- Core Faculty, NIMH training grant (1998-2006).
2009 Public Sociology Keynote address, Indiana University
2009 Outstanding Service Award, University of Minnesota Department of Sociology
2007 Ten Year Certificate of Appreciation, TRIO Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program
2006 Distinguished McKnight University Professorship, University of Minnesota
2005 Public Sociology Award, University of Minnesota Department of Sociology
2004 New York Times Magazine, 2003 “Ideas of the Year”
2004 Member, Sociological Research Association
2004 Sociological Education Award, Sociologists of Minnesota
2001-04 McKnight Presidential Fellow, University of Minnesota
2003-06 Executive Board, American Society of Criminology
2002-03 U.S. Delegate, U.S.- Japan Leadership Exchange Forum
2002-03 Sabbatical Supplement Award, University of Minnesota
2000-02 Fellow, Soros Foundation Open Society Institute
2001 Outstanding Faculty Award, Mortar Board National Honor Society
(for superior dedication to undergraduate research)
2000 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award, American Society of Criminology
(for outstanding scholarly contributions to the field of criminology)
1999 College Nominee, Morse Alumni University Teaching Award
1999 Student Board Nominee, College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Faculty Award
1998 Junior Scholar Award, International Society for Criminology
1998 Faculty Mentor Award, University of Minnesota Department of Sociology
1996 Katherine DuPree Lumpkin Dissertation Award, University of Wisconsin
1994 Dissertation Fellowship, University of Wisconsin
1992 1st Prize, ASA Crime, Law and Deviance Section Student Paper Award
1991 1st Prize, Gene Carte Paper Award American Society of Criminology
1990-92 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
1990 Distinction, University of Wisconsin Sociology Preliminary Examination
1989 Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin
1986 Undergraduate Scholarship, AMEV/Fortis Companybooks
Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. 2006. Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.
Paperback edition (2008)
Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2006)
Finalist, C. Wright Mills Award (2006)
journals - editing
Co-editor. 2007-2010. American Sociological Association's Contexts. (with Doug Hartmann).
Guest editor. 2008. Criminology and Public Policy.The Effect of Criminal Background Checks on Hiring Ex-Offenders.
Guest editor. 2005. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. Special issue: Collateral Consequences of Criminal Sanctions, Volume 21, No. 1.
journals - writing
Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. 2010. “Settling Down and Aging Out: Toward an Interactionist Theory of Desistance and the Transition to Adulthood.” Forthcoming in American Journal of Sociology.
Sara Wakefield and Christopher Uggen. 2010. “Incarceration and Stratification.” Forthcoming in Annual Review of Sociology.
Amy Blackstone, Christopher Uggen, and Heather McLaughlin. 2009. “Legal Consciousness and Responses to Sexual Harassment.” Forthcoming in Law & Society Review 43:631-68.
Teresa Swartz, Amy Blackstone, Christopher Uggen, and Heather McLaughlin. 2009. “Welfare and Citizenship: The Effects of Government Assistance on Voting Behavior.” The Sociological Quarterly 50:633-65.
Jesse Wozniak and Christopher Uggen. 2009. “Real Men Use Non-Lethals: Appeals to Masculinity in Marketing Police Weaponry." Forthcoming in Feminist Criminology 4:274-93. [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen and Chika Shinohara. 2009. “Sexual Harassment Comes of Age: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japan."The Sociological Quarterly. 50:201-34. [pdf] [copyright]
Heather Hlavka and Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Does Stigmatizing Sex Offenders Drive Down Reporting Rates? Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences” Northern Kentucky Law Review 35:347-69. [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Editorial Introduction: The Effect of Criminal Background Checks on Hiring Ex-Offenders.” Criminology and Public Policy 7:367-370. [pdf] [copyright]
Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2008. “Social Class and Workplace Harassment During the Transition to Adulthood.” New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development 119:85-98. [invited]. [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen. 2007. “Who We Punish: The Carceral State.” Social Research 74: 467-469 [pdf] [copyright] and “Dirty Bombs and Garbage Cases.” Social Research 74: 707-711. [invited, non-refereed] [pdf] [copyright]
Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. 2007. “Subjective Desistance and the Transition to Adulthood.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 23:90-103. [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Melissa Thompson, 2006. “Citizenship, Democracy, and the Civic Reintegration of Criminal Offenders.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 605:281-310. [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen, Angela Behrens, and Jeff Manza. 2005. “Criminal Disenfranchisement.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 1:307-322. [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2004. “Voting and Subsequent Crime and Arrest: Evidence from a Community Sample.” Columbia Human Rights Law Review 36:193-215. [pdf] [copyright]
Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Punishment and Democracy: The Disenfranchisement of Nonincarcerated Felons in the United States.” Perspectives on Politics 2:491-505. [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen and Amy Blackstone. 2004. "Sexual Harassment as a Gendered Expression of Power." American Sociological Review 69:64-92. [abstract] [ASA release] [pdf] [copyright]
Jeff Manza, Clem Brooks, and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Public Attitudes toward Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States.” Public Opinion Quarterly 68:276-87. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Sara Wakefield and Christopher Uggen. 2004. "The Declining Significance of Race in Federal Civil Rights Law: The Social Structure of Employment Discrimination Claims." Sociological Inquiry 74:128-57. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Angela Behrens, Christopher Uggen, and Jeff Manza. 2003. “Ballot Manipulation and the ‘Menace of Negro Domination’: Racial Threat and Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2002.” American Journal of Sociology 109:559-605. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Reprinted 2006 in Crime and Criminal Justice: International Library of Essays in Law & Society, edited by William T. Lyons, Jr. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing.
Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Angela Behrens. 2003. “Felon Voting Rights and the Disenfranchisement of African Americans.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 5:47-55. [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen and Melissa Thompson. 2003. "The Socioeconomic Determinants of Ill-Gotten Gains: Within-Person Changes in Drug Use and Illegal Earnings." American Journal of Sociology 109:146-85. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Jeremy Staff and Christopher Uggen. 2003. "The Fruits of Good Work: Job Quality and Adolescent Deviance." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 40:263-90. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2002. "Democratic Contraction? The Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States." American Sociological Review 67:777-803.[abstract] [pdf] [ASA] [NYT] [copyright]
Reprinted 2006 in Crime, Inequality, and the State, edited by Mary E. Vogel (New York: Routledge). Excerpted 2004, pp. 264-65 in Sociology (“Prisoners and Presidents”) by David M. Newman. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press; Excerpted 2003 in American Sociological Association’s Footnotes (“Sociology News for the Dinner Table”) 31:8; Excerpted 2003 in Contexts (“Discoveries”) 2:6.
Christopher Uggen and Jeremy Staff. 2001. “Work as a Turning Point for Criminal Offenders.” Corrections Management Quarterly 5:1-16. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Reprinted 2004, Pp. 141-66 in Crime and Employment: Critical Issues in Crime Reduction for Corrections, edited by Jessie L. Krienert and Mark S. Fleisher. Rowman and Littlefield.
Barbara McMorris and Christopher Uggen. 2000. "Alcohol and Employment in the Transition to Adulthood." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41:276-94. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen. 2000. "Work as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Criminals: A Duration Model of Age, Employment, and Recidivism." American Sociological Review 65:529-46. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Reprinted 2002, 2004, 2006 in Boundaries: Readings in Deviance, Crime, and Justice, edited by B.R.E. Wright, Jr. and R.B. McNeal, Jr. Allyn & Bacon/Pearson Custom Publishing.
Awarded International Society for Criminology Junior Scholar Article Prize.
Christopher Uggen. 2000. "Class, Gender, and Arrest: An Intergenerational Analysis of Workplace Power and Control." Criminology 38:101-28. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Jessica Huiras, Christopher Uggen, and Barbara McMorris. 2000. "Career Jobs, Survival Jobs, and Employee Deviance: A Social Investment Model of Workplace Misconduct." The Sociological Quarterly 41:245-63. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Candace Kruttschnitt, Christopher Uggen, and Kelly Shelton. 2000. "Predictors of Desistance among Sex Offenders: The Interaction of Formal and Informal Social Controls." Justice Quarterly 17:61-87. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Elizabeth Chambliss and Christopher Uggen. 2000. "Men and Women of Elite Law Firms: Reevaluating Kanter's Legacy." Law and Social Inquiry 25:41-68. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Lauren Edelman, Christopher Uggen, and Howard Erlanger. 1999. "The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth." American Journal of Sociology 105:406-54. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen and Jennifer Janikula. 1999. "Volunteerism and Arrest in the Transition to Adulthood." Social Forces 78:331-62. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen. 1999. "Ex-Offenders and the Conformist Alternative: A Job Quality Model of Work and Crime." Social Problems 46:127-51. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen and Candace Kruttschnitt. 1998. "Crime in the Breaking: Gender Differences in Desistance." Law and Society Review 32:401-28. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Reprinted 2000 in The Termination of Criminal Careers, edited by Stephen Farrall. 2000. International Library of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate.
Christopher Uggen and Irving Piliavin. 1998. "Asymmetrical Causation and Criminal Desistance." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 88:1399-1422. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Reprinted 2002, 2004, 2006 in Boundaries: Readings in Deviance, Crime, and Justice.
Excerpted in National Institute of Justice NIJ Journal 237:20 (October).
Christopher Uggen. 1993. "Reintegrating Braithwaite: Shame and Consensus in Criminological Theory." Law and Social Inquiry 18:481-500. [pdf] [copyright] [An article-length review essay]
Christopher Uggen. 1993. "Beyond Calvin and Hobbes: Rationality and Exchange in a Theory of Moralizing Shaming." Law and Social Inquiry 18:513-16. [pdf] [copyright] [A rejoinder to John Braithwaite's "Pride in Criminological Dissensus"]
book chapters and encyclopedia entriesChristopher Uggen, Sarah Shannon, and D. Wayne Osgood. “From Daddy’s Liquor Cabinet to Home Depot: Shifts in Leisure Activity in the Transition to Adulthood.” Conditionally accepted for forthcoming volume, edited by Teresa Swartz, Doug Hartmann, and Ruben Rumbaut.
Christopher Uggen and Michelle Inderbitzin. 2010. "The Price and the Promise of Citizenship: Extending the Vote to Nonincarcerated Felons." Pages 61-68 in Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice Policy: Policy Proposals From the American Society of Criminology Conference, edited by Natasha A. Frost, Joshua D. Freilich, and Todd R. Clear. Belmont, CA: Cengage/Wadsworth.
Shelly Schaefer and Christopher Uggen. 2009. “Juvenile Delinquency and Desistance.” Forthcoming in Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood, edited by Andy Furlong. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge.
Christopher Uggen, Mischelle Van Brakle, and Heather McLaughlin. 2009. “Punishment and Social Exclusion: National Differences in Prisoner Disenfranchisement.” Pages 59-78 in Criminal Disenfranchisement in an International Perspective, edited by Alec Ewald and Brandon Rottinghaus. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen and Heather Hlavka. 2008. “No More Lame Pro-sems: Professional Development Seminars in Sociology.” Pages 191-216 in Academic Street Smarts: Informal Professionalization of Graduate Students, edited by Ira Silver and David Shulman. New York: American Sociological Association. [pdf] [copyright]
Darren Wheelock and Christopher Uggen. 2008. "Race, Poverty and Punishment: The Impact of Criminal Sanctions on Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Inequality." Pp. 261-292 in The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist, edited by David Harris and Ann Chih Lin. New York: Russell Sage.
Uggen, Christopher. 2008. “Thinking Experimentally.” Pages 181-189 in Experiments in Criminology and Law: A Research Revolution. Christine J. Horne and Michael J. Lovaglia. Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield.
Michelle Inderbitzin, Kelly Fawcett, Christopher Uggen, and Kristin A. Bates. 2007. "'Revolutions May Go Backwards': The Persistence of Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States." Pages 37-53 in Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States, edited by Kristin A. Bates and Richelle S. Swan. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Christopher Uggen and Sara Wakefield. 2007. “What Have We Learned from Longitudinal Studies of Adolescent Employment and Crime?” Pages 189-218 in The Long View of Crime: A Synthesis of Longitudinal Research, edited by Akiva Liberman. New York: Springer.
Angela Behrens, Christopher Uggen, and Jeff Manza. 2006. “Felon Disenfranchisement." Pages 582-585 in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties. New York: Routledge.
Christopher Uggen and Sara Wakefield. 2005. “Young Adults Reentering the Community from the Criminal Justice System: Challenges to Adulthood.” Pages 114-144 in On Your Own Without a Net: The Transition to Adulthood for Vulnerable Populations, edited by D. Wayne Osgood, E. Michael Foster, Constance Flanagan, and Gretchen R. Ruth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen, Sara Wakefield, and Bruce Western. 2005. “Work and Family Perspectives on Reentry.” Pages 209-243 in Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America, edited by Jeremy Travis and Christy Visher. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2005. “Disenfranchisement and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons.” Pages 67-84 in Civil Penalties, Social Consequences, edited by Christopher Mele and Teresa Miller. New York: Routledge. [pdf] [copyright]Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2004. “Lost Voices: The Civic and Political Views of Disfranchised Felons.” Pages 165-204 in Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration, edited by Mary Pattillo, David Weiman, and Bruce Western. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. [pdf] [copyright]
Jeremy Staff, Jeylan Mortimer, and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Work and Leisure in Adolescence.” Pages 429-450 in The Handbook of Adolescent Psychology, edited by Richard Lerner and Laurence Steinberg. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Angela Behrens. 2004. “Less than the Average Citizen: Stigma, Role Transition, and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons.” Pages 258-290 in After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to Offender Reintegration, edited by Shadd Maruna and Russ Immarigeon. Cullompton, Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen and Michael Massoglia. 2003. “Desistance from Crime as a Turning Point in the Life Course.” Pages 311-29 in Handbook of the Life Course, edited by Jeylan T. Mortimer and Michael J. Shanahan. New York: Plenum Publishing. [abstract]
Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. 2002. “Life Course Theories.” Pages 1008-12 in Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. [abstract]
Christopher Uggen. 2001. “Crime and Class.” Volume 5, pages 2906-10 in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. New York: Elsevier. [abstract]
Christopher Uggen and Melissa Thompson. 2001. “Prevention: Juveniles as Potential Offenders.” Pages 1152-55 in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. New York: MacMillan. [abstract]
reviews, commentary, and short piecesDoug Hartmann and Christopher Uggen. 2008-. "From the Editors," an introductory column in each quarterly issue of Contexts.
Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Who are the Outlaws? A Freakonomics Quorum,” New York Times Online. October 16.
Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Sociology of Deviance in the Real World,” “Journaling Interns -- Tell them to Write it All Down,” and course syllabus. Pp. 91-97, 209-214, and 235-238 in Bruce Hoffman (ed.) Teaching the Sociology of Deviance (6th Edition). Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
Christopher Uggen. 2006. “The Disenfranchised of History … and Now.” Wall Street Journal, September 2, p. A9, Letters section.
Christopher Uggen and Mike Vuolo. 2006. “Getting the Truth about Consequences.” Amici: Newsletter of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association 13:6-8.
Christopher Uggen. 2005. “Editorial Comment” as guest editor for special issue on Collateral Consequences of Criminal Sanctions. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 21:4-5.
Christopher Uggen. 2005. “Public Criminologies and Sociological Education.” Sociological Education award address. Sociograph 23 (1): 7.
Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Where Tough Guys Go.” Review of Laub and Sampson’s Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives. Contexts 3: 64-66.
Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “The President Is Right: Ex-Felons Need Aid.” Newsday, February 5, p. A33, Op-Ed section.
Reprinted 2004 under various titles, e.g., "Ex-cons Deserve a Chance to Right their Lives."
Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2003. “They've Paid Their Debt; Let Them Vote.” Los Angeles Times, July 18, p. B15, Op-Ed section.
Reprinted 2003 under various titles.
Christopher Uggen. 2003. “Criminology and the Sociology of Deviance.” The Criminologist 28:1-5. [pdf]
Christopher Uggen. 2002. “Crime and Punishment to the Core.” Brief invited comment on Western and Pettit. Contexts 1:4.
technical reports and working papersChristopher Uggen. 2009. Felon Disenfranchisement in Minnesota.
Christopher Uggen and Melissa Thompson. 1999. National Institute of Justice Final Report: Careers in Crime and Substance Use.
Christopher Uggen, Irving Piliavin, and Ross Matsueda. [publication date and status unknown]. "Jobs Programs and Criminal Desistance." Written for The Potential of Publicly Funded Jobs Programs, edited by D. Lee Bawden and Robert Lerman. Washington D.C.: Urban Institute Press.
papers under review
Christopher Uggen and Michelle Inderbitzin. "Public Criminologies." [revise and resubmit]Amy Blackstone, Jason N. Houle, and Christopher Uggen. “’At the time, I thought it was Great’: Sexual Harassment and the Transition to Adulthood.” [revise and resubmit]
Melissa Thompson and Christopher Uggen. “Social and Economic Predictors of Drug and Non-Drug Illegal Earnings.” [revise and resubmit]
Elaine Hernandez and Christopher Uggen. “Stigma, Strain, and Partisan Politics: Sources of Variation in Mental Health Parity Laws.”
Jason N. Houle, Jeremy Staff, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. “The Psychological Impact of Sexual Harassment During the Early Occupational Career.”
Sara Wakefield and Christopher Uggen. “Having a Kid Changes Everything? The Effects of Parenthood on Subsequent Crime.”
work in progress
“Music And Drugs: A Fixed Effects Analysis of Cultural Preferences and Substance Use in U.S. Radio Markets” with Mike Vuolo (draft available).
“Voting and the Civic Reintegration of Former Prisoners” with Shelly Schaefer (draft available).“A Survey and Analysis of Programs for Inmate Fathers: Basic Questions and Future Directions” with Sarah Shannon and Sara Wakefield.
“Incarceration and Stratification” with Sara Wakefield. In preparation for Annual Review of Sociology.
2008-13 NIH - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. “Work Experience and Mental Health: A Panel Study of Youth.” [Co-Investigator with Jeylan Mortimer (PI) et al.]. $1,250,000. 4/1/08-3/31/13.
2007-09 National Science Foundation. “Gender Differences in the Causes and Consequences of Drug Use.” [Co-PI with Melissa Thompson]. $108,074 ($24,700 at Minnesota). 5/13/07-4/29/09.
2007-08 National Institute of Justice. “The Effects of Low-Level Offense Records and Race on Employability” [PI with The Council on Crime and Justice]. $35,000.
2007-08 JEHT Foundation. “The Effects of Low-Level Offense Records and Race on Employability” [PI with The Council on Crime and Justice]. $265,300 ($80,000 at University). 5/1/07-10/31/08.
2006-07 The Sentencing Project. “Voting and Civic Reintegration in Oregon.” [Co-PI with Michelle Inderbitzin]. $5,500. 6/1/06-5/31/07.
2002-07 NIH - National Institute of Mental Health and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. “Work Experience and Mental Health: A Panel Study of Youth” [Co-Investigator with Jeylan Mortimer (PI) et al.]. $1,557,287. 8/12/02-8/11/07.
2005 National Institute on Drug Abuse/National Institutes of Health. “Peers, Parents, and Media: Effects on Youth Substance Use.” $67,917. 1/1/06-12/31/06. Not funded.2004 Russell Sage Foundation. “Adding Criminal History Information to the 2004 General Social Survey” [Co-Investigator with Jeff Manza, Devah Pager, and Tom Smith]. $36,000. Not funded.
2000-02 Soros Foundation. Open Society Institute Individual Project Fellowship [with Jeff Manza, Northwestern]. $101,164 ($50,602 at Minnesota). 7/1/00-12/31/02.
1999-02 National Science Foundation. “Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement.” [with Jeff Manza, Northwestern] $210,000 ($101,570 at Minnesota). 6/1/99-12/31/02.
1998-99 National Institute of Justice. “Careers in Crime and Substance Use.” $45,903.
1997-02 NIH - National Institute of Mental Health. “Work Experience and Mental Health: A Panel Study of Youth.” [Co-Investigator with Jeylan Mortimer (PI) and Michael Finch]. $845,304. 3/1/97-2/28/02.
2008-09 Undergraduate Research Opportunity. “Effect of Vitamin-D Supplementation on the Mental Health and Behavior of Prison Inmates” [with Lindsey Merritt].
2006-07 College of Liberal Arts. “Minnesota Exits and Entries Project.” $65,000. [PI with faculty and graduate student collaborators].
2006 Graduate Research Partnership. "Why Did They Attack Us? Extending Stark's Theory of Police Riots." 5/29/06-8/27/06. [with Jesse Wozniak]. $5,948.
2005 Graduate Research Partnership. “Do Former Felons Vote? Turnout among Prison Releasees 1978 to 2004.” [with Shelly Schaefer]. $5,269. 5/26/05-8/22/05.
2004-06 Life Course Center. “Age, Gender, and Sexual Harassment in Japan and the United States.” [with Chika Shinohara]. Research assistance.
2004 Graduate Research Partnership Program. “Musical Preferences and Drug Consumption.” [with Michael Vuolo]. $5,270. Not funded in 2004, planning external resubmission. 5/24/04-8/20/04.
2003 Graduate Research Partnership. “The Effect of Children on Crime and Recidivism.” [with Sara Wakefield]. $5,269. 5/26/03-8/22/03.
2003 Sociology/College of Liberal Arts. Underrepresented Graduate Partnership. “Collateral Civil Penalties and Consequences.” [with Darren Wheelock]. $3,750. 5/26/03-8/24/03.
2002 Graduate Research Partnership. Sexual Harassment in Adolescence and Adulthood.” [with Amy Blackstone] $7,951.
2002 Undergraduate Research Opportunity. “Racial Threat and Changes in Felon Disfranchisement Law in the United States, 1850-2000.” [with Angela Behrens] $1,661. Spring 2002.
2001 Undergraduate Research Opportunity. “The Diffusion of Anti-Discrimination Legislation Based on Sexual Orientation.” [with Brian Duginske]. $1,650.
2000 Life Course Center. “Sexual Harassment and Legal Mobilization in Adolescence and Young Adulthood.” Semester research assistance.
1999 Undergraduate Research Opportunity. “Employee Theft and Career Goals.” [with Jessica Huiras]. $1,100.
1998 Undergraduate Research Opportunity. “Trends in Equal Employment Opportunity Complaints” [with Sara Wakefield]. $1,080.
1996-98 Graduate School Grant-in-Aid. “Adolescent Employment, Status Origins, and Deviant Behavior.” $14,050.
1997 Faculty Summer Research Fellowship. “Age, Crime, and the School-to-Work Transition: A Comparative Analysis.” $5,000.
1996-97 Life Course Center. “Status Origins, Youth Employment, and Deviance.” Single quarter research assistance.
1995-96 Graduate School Grant-in-Aid. “Work, Crime, and Drug Use: A Life Course Model of Desistance from Deviant Roles.” $13,080.
recent presentations (since 2000)
invited talks
• Cornell University, Netter Conference. “Race, Criminal Records, and Employment.” October 9, 2009.
• Princeton University, “The Price and Promise of Justice Reform.” September 21, 2009.
• National Civic Summit, July 16, 2009
• Minnesota Senate, Elections Committee, February 27, 2009.
• Indiana University, “Public Criminologies and Social Research.” January 22, 2009 [keynote].
• Ohio State University, “Entries, Exits, and Public Criminologies.” October 24, 2008.
• Harvard University, “Exits, Entries, and Public Criminologies.” May 14, 2008
• University of California – Irvine, “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” January 15, 2008
• Minnesota legislature reentry working group, “Employment and Crime,” October 27, 2007.
• Stanford University, “Incarceration and Poverty,” Debate with Larry Bobo. May 11, 2007.
• Cornell University. “A Survey and Analysis of Programs for Inmate Fathers: Basic Questions and Future Directions.” Ithaca. April 14, 2007.
• Stanford University, “Half my Exes are Successes.” Stanford. April 11, 2007.
• University of Chicago, “Public Criminologies.” Chicago. October 27, 2006.
• John Jay College, “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” New York. June 16, 2006.
• Demos, “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” New York. May 18, 2006.
• National Coalition on Violence Research, “Subjective Desistance in the Transition to Adulthood.” Washington, DC. May 4, 2006.
• Pennsylvania State University, “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” State College. April 28, 2006.
• University of Pennsylvania, “Felon Disenfranchisement and Civic Reintegration.” Philadelphia. April 27, 2006.
• Washington State University, “Felon Disenfranchisement,” October 21, 2005.
• Macalester College, “Felon Disenfranchisement,” October 18, 2005.
• HIRED, St. Paul. “Work, Crime, and Adulthood.” July 5, 2005.
• University of Maryland. Economics of Crime and Justice Policy Series. “Desistance from Crime and the Transition to Adulthood.” College Park. March 16, 2005.
• University of Wisconsin Department of Sociology. “Public Criminologies and the Life Course.” Madison. December 17, 2004.
• Princeton University Department of Sociology. “Public Criminologies - Crime and the Transition to Adulthood.” December 6, 2004.
• “Illegal Earnings Imperatives” and “Sexual Harassment and Legal Consciousness.” University of California, Davis. Davis. November 4-5, 2004.
• Northwestern University Department of Sociology and law school. October 14, 2004.
• Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality. “Race and Felon Disenfranchisement.” Ithaca. September 10, 2004.
• Duke University Department of Sociology. “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” September 3, 2004.
• Ohio State University Department of Sociology Inequality Symposium. “Race and Felon Disenfranchisement.” Columbus. July 22, 2004.
• University of Michigan National Poverty Center. Ann Arbor. “Crime, Punishment, and Poverty.” [with Darren Wheelock] June 11, 2004.
• “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” North Carolina State University Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Raleigh. March 26, 2004.
• University of California, Berkeley Department of Sociology. “Public Criminologies.” Berkeley. March 18, 2004.
• National Consortium on Violence Research Roundtable on Reentry of Prisoners to Society. “Prisoner Reentry” panel discussion. Pittsburgh. December 15, 2003.
• “Civic Reinvestment” panel discussion. The Brooklyn Prisoner Reentry Conference. Brooklyn. December 1, 2003.
• New York University Law School. “Voting and Subsequent Crime and Arrest: Evidence from a Community Sample.” [with Jeff Manza] New York. October 10, 2003.
• University of Iowa Department of Sociology. “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” Iowa City. May 2, 2003.
• Columbia University. “Ballot Manipulation and the ‘Menace of Negro Domination’: Racial Threat and Felon Disfranchisement.” New York. April 11, 2003.
• University at Buffalo Law School. “Perspectives on Civil Disabilities: Felon Disfranchisement.” Buffalo. October 18, 2002.
• National Symposium on Felony Disfranchisement. “Political Impact of Felon Disfranchisement.” Washington, D.C. September 30, 2002.
• U.S.-Japan Foundation. “America’s Criminal Class in Perspective.” Seattle. August 17, 2002.
• Demos Election Reform Spotlight on Voting Rights. “Political Consequences of Felon Disfranchisement.” Atlanta. June 14, 2002.
• University of Washington Department of Sociology. “Felon Disfranchisement and the Civic Reintegration of Criminal Offenders.” Seattle. April 11, 2002.
• Urban Institute. “Barriers to Democratic Participation.” Washington D.C. March 20, 2002.
• Russell Sage Foundation. “Labor Market Effects of Employer Access to Criminal History Records.” New York. [with Shawn Bushway] March 9, 2001.
• University of Wisconsin Department of Sociology. “The Socioeconomic and Civic Reintegration of Criminal Offenders.” Madison. February 9, 2001.
• Economic Policy Institute. “Work as a Turning Point for Released Offenders.” United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., December 6, 2000.
• National Institute of Justice working group. “Crime and Labor Markets.” Washington, D.C., 1999.
didactic seminars• “Designing Research to Answer Criminal Justice Questions.” Half-day seminar for Bureau of Justice Statistics Justice Research and Statistics Association. Minneapolis. [lwith Barbara McMorris] October 31, 2000.
professional meetings (since 2005)
• “An Experimental Audit of the Effects of Low-level Criminal Records on Employment.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. San Francisco [with Mike Vuolo, Ebony Ruhland, Hilary Whitham and Sarah Lageson] August 10, 2009.
• “A Longitudinal Analysis of Gender, Power, and Sexual Harassment.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. San Francisco [with Heather McLaughlin and Amy Blackstone] August 8, 2009.
• “Building Communities of Teachers, Learners and Researchers Using Web 2.0 Tools.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. San Francisco [with Amelia Cotton Corl] August 11, 2009.
• “Democracy and Citizenship in Prison.” Am. Society of Crim. Mtgs. St. Louis. [with Michelle Inderbitzin] November 14, 2008.
• “An Experimental Audit of the Effects of Low-level Criminal Records on Employment.” [with Mike Vuolo, Ebony Ruhland, and Hilary Whitham.] November 13, 2008.
• “Design and Overview of the Minnesota Exits and Entries Project.” [with Shelly Schaefer] November 12, 2008.
• “Gender Differences in Drug Use: Patterns of Continuity and Change.” [with Melissa Thompson] November 12, 2008.
•“What Happens When Probationers and Parolees Vote? Community Supervision and Civic Reintegration.” Am. Society of Crim. Atlanta. [with Michelle Inderbitzin and Mike Vuolo] November 16, 2007.
• “Author Meets Critics: Locked Out.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. New York [with Jeff Manza] August 11, 2007.
• “Citizens, Felons, and Civic Reintegration in Oregon.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. New York [with Michelle Inderbitzin and Mike Vuolo] August 13, 2007.
• “Blogs as a Forum for Public Sociology.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. New York. August 14, 2007.
• “Inequality, Political Participation, and Civic Reintegration.” Am. Society of Crim. Los Angeles. [with Michelle Inderbitzin] November 3, 2006.
• “Restore Voting Rights?” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. November 2, 2006.
• “Author Meets Critic: Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” Am. Society of Crim. Mtgs. Los Angeles. [with Jeff Manza] November 2, 2006.
• “Author Meets Critics: Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” Social Science History Mtgs. Minneapolis. [with Jeff Manza] November 3, 2006.
• “Felon Occupational Restrictions and Race Gaps in Wages and Employment.” Am. Society of Crim. Mtgs. Los Angeles. [with Darren Wheelock] November 1, 2006.
• “Public Criminologies.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Philadelphia. [with Michelle Inderbitzin] August 13, 2006.
• “Voting and the Civic Reintegration of Former Prisoners. Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Philadelphia. [with Shelly Schaefer] August 13, 2006.
• “Criminal Castes, Classes, and Status Groups.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Philadelphia. August 12, 2006.
• “Punishment and Social Exclusion: National Differences in Prisoner
Disenfranchisement.” Law and Society Mtgs. Baltimore, MD. [with Mischelle van
Brakle] July, 2006.
• “Music and Drugs: A Fixed Effects Analysis of Cultural Preferences and Substance Use in US Radio Markets.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Philadelphia. [with Michael Vuolo] August 16, 2005.
• “Age, Gender, and Sekuhara in Japan and the United States.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Philadelphia. [with Chika Shinohara] August 16, 2005.
other activities at professional meetings (since 2005)
• Discussant, “Incarceration and the Labor Market.” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Boston, 2008.
• Author Meets Critic Session. "What Works in Corrections: Reducing the Criminal Activities of Offenders and Delinquents," by Doris MacKenzie. Am. Soc. Of Criminology Mtgs. Atlanta. 2007.
• Discussant, Session on “Gangs, Work, and Crime,” Am. Soc. Of Criminology Mtgs.
Toronto. 2005.
• Discussant, Session on “Sociolegal Control Efforts,” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs.
Philadelphia. 2005.
• Organizer, Session on “Punishment and Confinement,” Am. Sociological Assn. Mtgs. Philadelphia. 2005.
recent minnesota presentations
• Department of English. “The Engaged Department.” October 19, 2009
• Distinguished Faculty Luncheon. “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy.” February 11, 2009.
• Featured speaker. “Silenced Voices: the constitutionality and legality of felon disenfranchisement provisions.” Law School. January 28, 2006.
• Voting rights panelist. “Bringing Human Rights Back Home.” Law School. December 9, 2005.
• HIRED. "Work, Crime, and Adulthood." July 5, 2005.
• “Music and Drugs: A Fixed Effects Analysis of Cultural Preferences and Substance Use in the Top 100 U.S. Radio Markets, 1998-2002.” Sociology. [planned]
• “Sexual Harassment and Legal Consciousness.” Sociology. January 20, 2004.
• “Political Impact of America’s Criminal Class.” Elder Learning Institute. May 6, 2003.
• “Political Consequences of Felony Disfranchisement Laws.” Sociology. March 2, 2001.
• “Sexual Harassment in the Transition to Adulthood.” Life Course Center. December 1, 2000.
• Discussant for Governor Arne Carlson, Life Course Center. 1999.
• Invited speaker for “Campus Preview Days” (1998; 1999; 2001)
courses taught and evaluation scores [pdf]
Overall
teachingKnowledge
of subjectRespect &
concernAmount
learned5141-Juvenile Delinquency Winter 96 6.1 6.3 6.5 5.7 5966-Senior Projects Spring 96 6.0 6.4 6.5 5.9 5966-Senior Projects Fall 96 6.6 6.7 6.5 5.9 3801-Descriptive Statistics Fall 96 5.9 6.3 6.4 5.7 3802-Inferential Statistics Winter 97 6.0 6.6 6.3 5.3 5141-Juvenile Delinquency Winter 97 5.7 6.2 5.6 5.2 3801-Descriptive Statistics Winter 98 6.2 6.5 6.5 5.8 5141-Juvenile Delinquency Winter 98 5.9 6.4 6.4 5.8 5960-Topics (Work/Crime) Spring 98 6.3 6.4 6.7 4.7 3802-Inferential Statistics Spring 98 6.2 6.6 6.6 5.9 3801-Descriptive Statistics Winter 99 5.8 6.4 6.5 5.5 3802-Inferential Statistics Spring 99 5.9 6.4 6.1 5.6 8105-Crime Policy Seminar Spring 99 6.6 6.8 6.4 5.9 4141-Juvenile Delinquency Fall 99 6.0 6.4 6.5 5.5 3991-Jr. Honors Seminar Spring 00 6.3 6.9 6.7 6.3 3811-Social Statistics Spring 00 6.1 6.6 6.4 5.0 4977-Sr. Honors Seminar I Fall 00 6.6 6.9 6.9 6.2 4978-Sr. Honors Seminar II Spring 01 6.7 6.7 6.9 6.7 4141-Juvenile Delinquency Spring 02 6.2 6.5 6.5 5.8 Sabbatical Year Fall 02-03 4111-Deviance Spring 04 6.6 6.9 6.8 6.2 4141-Juvenile Delinquency Spring 04 6.5 6.9 6.8 6.0 8001-Soc. as a Profession Fall 04 6.8 6.8 7.0 5.8 4141-Juvenile Delinquency Spring 05 6.4 6.7 6.6 6.0 8111-Criminology Spring 05 6.6 7.0 6.7 6.3 8001-Soc. as a Profession Spring 05 6.8 6.9 7.0 6.4 4111-Deviance Fall 05 6.6 6.9 6.8 6.1 8001-Soc. as a Profession Fall 05 6.9 6.9 6.7 6.3 8001-Soc. as a Profession Spring 06 6.8 7.0 6.8 6.2 4111-Deviance Fall 06 6.7 6.9 6.9 6.2 4141-Delinquency Spring 07 6.4 6.7 6.7 5.7 Uggen’s Mean (1996-2007) 6.3 6.7 6.6 5.9 Dept. Mean (1994-2005) 5.9 6.5 6.2 5.5
Evaluation Scores on 1-6 Scale (2008-present)
Course number and name Term
Well-prepared
Presented clearly
Provided feedback
Treat w/ Respect
4141-Delinquency
Spring 08
5.9
5.8
5.7
6.0
8090-Contexts graduate seminar Fall 08 5.8 5.9 5.7 5.9 Contexts graduate seminar
Spring 09
in progress
teaching honors
2007 Ten Year Certificate of Appreciation, TRIO Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program
2004 Sociological Education Award, Sociologists of Minnesota
2001 Outstanding Faculty Award, Mortar Board National Honor Society (for superior dedication to undergraduate research)
1999 College Nominee, Morse Alumni University Teaching Award
1999 Student Board Nominee, College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Faculty Award
1998 Faculty Mentor Award, University of Minnesota Department of Sociologyother teaching interests
Stratification and Inequality, Sociology of Law, Methods and Statistics
supervision of students
graduate advising
• Mike Vuolo (2009 Ph.D. Advisor), Statistician, Allina
• Heather Hlavka (2008 Ph.D. Co-Advisor), Asst. Prof., Marquette University
• Sara Wakefield (2007 Ph.D. Advisor), Asst. Prof., University of California-Irvine
• Andrew Odubote (2007 Ph.D. Advisor), Asst. Prof., Bethel University
• Darren Wheelock (2006 Ph.D. Co-Advisor), Asst. Prof., Marquette University
• Michael Massoglia (2005 Ph.D. Advisor), Asst. Prof., Pennsylvania State University
• Jeremy Staff (2004 Ph.D. Co-Advisor), Asst. Prof., Pennsylvania State University
• Melissa Thompson (2003 Ph.D. Co-Advisor), Associate Prof., Portland State University
• Amy Blackstone (2003 Ph.D. Co-Investigator/RA), Associate Prof., University of Maine
• Julie Barrows (Ph.D. Advisor), Criminal Investigator, USDA Office of Inspector General
• Jesse Wozniak (Ph.D. Advisor)
• Heather McLaughlin (Ph.D. Advisor)
• Jessica Molina (Ph.D. Advisor)
• Sarah Shannon (Ph.D. Advisor)
• Sara Lageson (Initial Ph.D. Advisor)
• Shelly Schaefer (Ph.D. Co-Advisor)
• Cindy Crimmins (Ph.D. Co-Advisor)
• Andrew Halpern-Manners (Initial Ph.D. Advisor)
• Lisette Haro (Initial Ph.D. Advisor)
• Jennifer C. Lee (Ph.D. committee)
• Kristin Carbone (Ph.D. committee)
• Naomi Isaacson (Ph.D. committee)
• Virginia Lane (Ph.D. committee)
• Deborah Eckberg (Ph.D. committee)
• Kenneth Wu Hopkins (Ph.D. committee)
• Ann Beutel (Ph.D. committee alternate)
• Donna Cernohous (M.A. Thesis committee)
• Kelly Shelton (M.A. Thesis committee)
• Glenna Siekert (M.A. Thesis committee)
• Jim Zaffiro (M.A. Thesis committee)
• Rebbeca Colwell (Geography, M.S. Thesis committee)
• Kristin Gallagher (Industrial Relations, M.A. Thesis committee)
• Amir Ijaz (Industrial Relations, M.A. Thesis committee)graduate research supervision and independent readings
• Sarah Shannon, Social Work, 2006
• Shelly Schaefer, Sociology, 2005
• Sarah Walker, Political Science, 2005
• Valentine Namakula, Advisor to Humphrey International Fellow, 2004-2005
• Rebecca Colwell, Spring 2004
• Leon Dundas, Advisor to Humphrey International Fellow, 2003-2004
• Sara Wakefield, Fall 2003
• Darren Wheelock, Summer 2003
• Amy Blacksto, Summer 2001
• Jeremy Stane, Summer 2002
• Julie Barrowsff, Summer 2000
• Lori Schabo-Grabowski, Winter 1999 and Fall 1998
• Andrew Odubote, Spring and Summer 1998
• Anne Hoffman, Winter 1997
• Alexandra Goulding, Winter 1996
• Jaime Lugo (Geography), Winter 1996undergraduate research
• Shanicia Goston and Chantel Johnson, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2009
• Janelle Rainwater and Jessica Molina, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2008
• Claudio Perez and Jessica Molina, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2007
• Hayley Castro, Multicultural Summer Research Opportunities Program faculty advisor, 2007
• Shannon Ryan, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2006
• Jessica Gonzalez, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2005
• Heather Anderson, Aubrie Beske, Tanisha Jones, Kimberly Gardner, Rick Kreyer, Trumaine Lindsey, Jr.,independent research, 2006
• Elisabeth Wells, Heather Leyse, Kimberly Gardner, Trumaine Lindsey, Jr., Independent Research 2005
• Sarah Davis, Adam Basil, Moua Xiong, Independent Research 2004
• Pamela Parnell, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2004
• Amanda Allen, Sean Elder, Gina Kubits, and Danielle Saracino, Independent senior projects, 2004
• Julie Korts, Corey Boyer, Chris Hogg, and Marsha Skalsky, Independent senior projects, 2003
• Justine Jones, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2003
• Angela Behrens, UROP, 2002 (published in American Journal of Sociology)
• Ebony Ruhland, McNair fellowship faculty advisor; senior project, 2002-3
• Danielle Riester, Senior project and independent study, 2002
• Michelle Lopez, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2001
• Stephanie Miller, MacArthur Honors Program Faculty Advisor, 2001
• Brian Duginske, UROP, 2001
• Les Andrist, Megan Carollo, Kelly Healey, Eric Hedberg, Martin Lloyd, and Ann Hewitt, Senior project and independent research, 2000
• Keia Johnson, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2000
• Janna Cheney, Honors project reader, 2000
• Shushanie Isaacson, Honors project reader, 1999 (ASA Sociology of Law section undergraduate award winner, college award nominee)
• Ryan King, Mark Fredkove, Honors project reader, 1999
• Molly Koscianski, Sara Miller, Michael Johnson, Michael Steiner, and Kelly Simons, Independent research, 1999
• Miriam Rea and Sindy Lopez, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 1999
• Jessica Huiras, UROP research, 1999 (published in Sociological Quarterly)
• Sara Peterson, Individualized major reader, 1998-99
• Shani Greene, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 1998
• Sara Wakefield, UROP research, 1998 (published in Sociological Inquiry)
• Jeremy Blackowicz, Greg Gentz, and Sara Wakefield, Honors project reader, 1998
• Christopher Page and Bridget Cleary, Independent research, 1997
• Jennifer Halko, UROP research, 1997 (published in Social Forces)
• Chikako Sato, Kimberly Lemcke, Tina Platt, Senior project and independent research, 1997
• Rachel Greene, Tami Lin Grimmer, Andrea Andrews, Senior project and independent research, 1996
• Humara Ali, Individualized major reader, 1996
• Jennifer Holden and Jody Matteson, SPAN research project, 1996-8
• James Warren, Honors project reader, 1996
• Carolyn Murphy, Senior project and independent study, 1995-96
mentoring
• Kanika (Vic) Nhul, 2002-2003
• Melissa Buffalo, 1998-2000
• Seema Gundgavi, 1997-1999
service
professional activitiesmemberships in professional associations
• American Society of Criminology, 1991-
• American Sociological Association, 1992-
• Law and Society Association, 2003-
• Sociological Research Association, 2004-
professional association activities
• Publications Committee, Am. Sociological Assn., 2007-2010
• Executive Secretary and Board Member, Am. Soc. of Criminology, 2003-2009
• Chair, New Article Award Committee, Am. Soc. of Criminology, 2004
• Executive Secretary and Board Member, American Society of Criminology, 2003-2006; 2006-2008
• A.J. Reiss Distinguished Scholar Award Committee, American Sociological Association Crime, Law, and Deviance Section, 2002-2003
• Ruth Shonle Cavan Award Committee, American Society of Criminology, 2002-2003
• Candidate for Council, American Sociological Association Sociology of Law Section, 2002
• Life Course Division Chair, American Society of Criminology, 2001
• National Policy Committee, American Society of Criminology, 1998-1999
• Chair, Graduate Student Prize Committee, American Sociological Association, 1997
• Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, American Sociological Association Sociology of Law Section, 1996
•Undergraduate Award Committee, Midwest Sociological Society, 1996
editorial advisory boards
• Editor, 2008-2010. American Sociological Association's Contexts (with Doug Hartmann).
• Guest Editor, Criminology and Public Policy, 2008. The Effect of Criminal Background Checks on Hiring Ex-Offenders.
• Guest Editor, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, February 2005
• Associate Editor, Law and Society Review, 2003-2006
• Editorial Board, Criminology, 2003-2006; 2006-2009
• Editorial Board, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2006-2009
• Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 2001-2003
• Editorial Board, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1996-1999
• Student Advisory Board, American Sociological Review, 1992-1993
participation (of varying degrees) in working groups
• National Civic Summit, July 16, 2009
• National Coalition on Violence Research (Presenter), 2003, 2006
• Macarthur Network on the Transition to Adulthood, 2001 -
• Russell Sage Foundation Mass Incarceration Working Group, 2000
• Urban Institute Reentry Roundtable, 2002 –
expert testimony and community outreach
• Minnesota Corrections Strategic Management and Operations Advisory Task Force, 2009-2010.
• Minnesota Department of Corrections Human Subjects Committee, 2009-2010.
• Minnesota Senate, felon voting laws, February 27, 2009.
• Voting Rights Forum with U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, October 6, 2008.
• Minnesota legislature reentry working group, “Employment and Crime,” October 27, 2007.
• Minnesota Supreme Court Racial Fairness Committee. “Felon disenfranchisement,” November 29, 2006.
• Minnesota Senate, “Convicted felons civil rights and voting eligibility restoration,” Crime Prevention and Public Safety Committee, March 28, 2006.
• Minnesota Senate, Elections Committee, March 20, 2006.
• Johnson v. Bush, 2000-2004 (a federal class action lawsuit seeking to overturn an indefinite voting ban on ex-felons in Florida).
• “Work as a Turning Point for Released Offenders.” Economic Policy Institute. United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., December 6, 2000.
reviews
Grants: National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice, TESS: Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences
Journals: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Criminology, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, Law & Society Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, Social Science Research, Sociological Inquiry, Work and Occupations
Books: Temple University Press, Roxbury Publishing
Promotion and Tenure: University of Connecticut, 2003; North Carolina State University, 2005; University of Iowa, 2005; University of Washington, 2007; Indiana University, 2008; Vanderbilt University, 2008; Ohio State University, 2008; Stanford University, 2008; University of Washington, 2008, University of Pennsylvania 2009Departmental External Reviews: Ohio State University (chair), 2009
university
college and university
o Orientation for new chairs (2008-2009)
o Chair-elect, Council of Chairs (2009-)
o Council of Chairs and Chairs, Executives, Deans, and Directors (2006-)
o Geography Search Committee (2007-2008)
o Political Science Personnel Committee (4 searches in 2005-2006)
o Budget Affairs Committee (2003-2005)
o Assembly (1997-1998; 2001-2003; 2003-2005)
o Dean’s Recruiting Reception (2005)
o Assembly Co-Chair (2003-2004)
o Executive Committee (2003-2004)
o Chairs, Executives, Deans, and Directors Committee (2003-2004)
o Instructional Awards Committee (2001-2002)
o Information Technology Committee (1998-2001)o Graduate Education Work Group (2009-2010)
oGraduate School Faculty Summer Research Committee (2003-2004)
o Social Science Research Facility Advisory Committee (2003-present)
o Web Course Tools Advisory Committee (1999-2001)
o Campus Preview Days Faculty speaker (1998; 1999; 2001; 2004)
o President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program (1995-present)
o Commencement Representative (1995; 1999)• Department Chair (2006- )
• Associate Chair (2004-2006)
• Personnel Committee Chair (2004-2005; 4 Searches in 2001-2002)
• Executive Committee (elected) (2001-2002; 2003-2004)
• Personnel Committee (1995-1996; 2003-2004)
• Graduate Admissions and Awards (1999-2000; 2000-2001)
• Qualifying Examination Committee (1998-1999)
• Ethics/Grievance Committee (1996-1997)
• Promotion, Tenure, and Salary Committee (1996-97; 1999-2000)
• Graduate Affairs Committee (1996-1998)
• Life Course Center Advisory Committee (1998-)
• Department representative at ASA (1999)
community and outreach affiliations
• Minnesota Corrections Strategic Management and Operations Advisory Task Force, 2009-2010.
• Minnesota Department of Corrections Human Subjects Committee (2009-)
• Sentencing Project (Washington, DC)
• Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (Los Angeles)
• Wilhelm and Conlon/Safer Foundation (reentry programs) (Chicago)
• Council on Crime and Justice (Minneapolis)
• HIRED (Minneapolis)
• Demos (New York)
• Soros Foundation Open Society Institute (New York)
• Minnesota Department of Corrections
• Hennepin County (Minneapolis) Attorney's Office
• Volunteers in Probation
• College for Kids
• Future Problem Solving
recent media
press releases and briefs
American Sociological Association. 2009. "Female Supervisors More Susceptible to Workplace Sexual Harassment."University of Minnesota. 2006. "Felon Disenfranchisement."
Network on Transitions to Adulthood Policy Brief, 2005. “Weaving Young Ex-Offenders Back into the Fabric of Society.”
American Political Science Association. 2004. "Disenfranchised Voters."
American Sociological Association. 2004. "Males and Adolescents Are Increasingly Victims of Sexual Harassment."
American Sociological Association. 2004. "New York Times Year in Ideas."
American Sociological Association. 2003. "If Felons Could Have Voted, National Election Outcomes Would Have Been Different."
selected appearancesAtlanta Journal Constitution, August 12, 2009, sexual harassment
MSN Health and Fitness, August 12, 2009, sexual harassment
US News & World Report Healthday, August 12, 2009, sexual harassment
Globe and Mail (Canada), August 11, 2009, sexual harassment
UPI.com, August 11, 2009 sexual harassment
Economic Times (India), August 10, 2009, sexual harassment
Times of India, August 9, 2009, sexual harassment
E! Science News, August 9, 2009, sexual harassment
Fox 9 News (Minneapolis), August 8, 2009, sexual harassment
The Economist, August 6, 2009, sex offenders
KTCA-TV Almanac, July 24, 2009, crime rates
Fedgazette, March 2009, economy and crime
Fox News, October 20, 2008, felon voting
The New York Times Online - Freakonomics, October 16, 2008, modern outlaws
Minnesota Public Radio, October 31, 2008
Minnesota Public Radio, October 1, 2008, felon voting
New York Times, September 14, 2008, felon disenfranchisement
Seattle Times, June 24, 2008
Inside Higher Ed, June 23, 2008, criminology and sociology
Huffington Post, June 11, 2008, research cited
Air America Radio’s Considering Faith, May 18, 2008, prisoner reintegration
Chicago Tribune, October 3, 2007, sexual harassment
The Nation, August 27, 20007, research cited
Footnotes, July/August, 2007, Contexts
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, June 2, 2007, research cited
Wall Street Journal, May 4, 2007, Florida disenfranchisement
Slate, April 27, 2007, research cited
ZNet, April 21, 2007, research cited
New York Review of Books, April 12, 2007, Locked Out
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, April 7, 2007, Florida disenfranchisement
Palm Beach Post, April 7, 2007, Florida disenfranchisement
Salon, April 6, 2007, felon disenfranchisement
ZNet, March 4, 2007, research cited
Baltimore Sun, October 17, 2006, felon disenfranchisement
KSTP TV (Minneapolis), October 5, 2006, false reporting
Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2006, felon disenfranchisement
WWOW radio (Cleveland), July 2, 2006, Louie Free, Locked Out
WBAL radio (Baltimore), June 13, 2006, Dan Rodricks, Locked Out
KVON radio (San Francisco), June 5, 2006, Jeff Schectman, Locked Out
WIP-AM radio (Philadelphia), June 4, 2006, Peter Solomon, Locked Out
KAHL radio (San Antonio), June 2, 2006, Ron Thulin, Locked Out
USA Today, June 1, 2006, felon disenfranchisement
WLW-AM radio (Cincinatti), June 1, 2006, Mike McConnell, Locked Out
KOLE radio (Houston), May 31, 2006, Dan Gresham, Locked Out
KMED radio (Medford, OR), May 30, 2006, Bill Meyer, Locked Out
WJR radio (Detroit), May 29, 2006, Frank Beckman Show, Locked Out
KCMN radio (Colorado Springs), May 25, 2006 Tron in the Morning, Locked Out
WIOJ radio (Jacksonville), May 22, 2006, Ed Furbee, Locked Out
WGTD radio (Milwaukee), May 19, 2006, Morning Show, Locked Out
American Urban Radio (Kelsey Hill), May 16, 2006, Locked Out
USA Network/Daybreak (Al Lerner), May 8, 2006, Locked Out
Al Franken Show (Air America radio), April 4, 2006, felon voting
The New Standard, March 31, 2006, felon “poll tax”
WCCO radio (Minneapolis, MN), March 7, 2006, with Jeff McKinney
KPFT radio (Houston, TX), Sunday Monitor with Pokey Anderson, March 5, 2006
Lexington Herald-Leader, February 17, 2006, ex-felon job fairs
Baltimore Sun, February 16, 2006, voting research cited in op-ed
Buffalo News, November 6, 2005, felon voting
St. Petersberg Times, November 15, 2005, Johnson v. Bush case
Lexington Herald-Leader, November 3, 2005
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 24, 2005, ex-felon employment
The Economist, July 9, 2005, Iowa ex-felons
Des Moines Register, June 29, 2005, felon voting
Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier, June 22, 2005, felon voting
Associated Press (New York Newsday), June 21, 2005, sex offenders
Virginian-Pilot, May 6, 2005, voting research cited in op-ed
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 21, 2005
U.S. Newswire, March 10, 2005, Iowa felon voting
Washington Times, March 8, 2005
Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2005
Associated Press, March 2, 2005, interview with Malia Rulon
KDXU radio (St. George, UT), The Donovan Report, December 21, 2004
WKSU radio (Kent, OH), December 14, 2004
Chicago Tribune, October 29, 2004
Financial Times Deutschland (Germany), October 27, 2004
Austin Chronicle, October 22, 2004
National Review Online, October 18, 2004
Village Voice, October 12, 2004
Newsweek, October 11, 2004, interview with Sarah Childress
National Public Radio, Day to Day, October 5, 2004, interview with Kathy Witkowsky
Boston Globe, October 4, 2004, research cited in op-ed
KDXU radio (St. George, UT), The Donovan Report, September 22, 2004
WNWS radio (Jackson, TN), FYI, September 21, 2004, interview and callers
New York Times,September 17, 2004, interview for Brent Staples op-ed
Sacramento Bee, September 12, 2004, felon voting
For the People (syndicated talk radio), September 7, 2004
KMOX radio (St. Louis), August 30, 2004
KGET radio (Bakersfield, CA), August 27, 2004
Al Franken Show (syndicated talk radio), August 26, 2004, felon voting
Wall Street Journal August 12, 2004, ex-felons and election
In These Times August 10, 2004, former felons and election
Making Contact (syndicated radio), August 4, 2004, election
Omaha World Herald, July 24, 2004, felon voting - Iowa
Ohio Public Radio, July 23, 2004, felon voting - Ohio
Chicago Tribune (Knight-Ridder), July 20, 2004, felon voting - Florida
WMNF Radio (Tampa), July 15-16 2004, felon voting - Florida
Black Entertainment Television (BET.com), July 7, 2004, race and felon voting
Minnesota Public Radio (Morning Edition), July 7, 2004, felon reenfranchisement
Physician Law Weekly, Health and Medicine Week, Mental Health Weekly Digest, June 7-9 2004, sexual harassment
Irvine Progressive, June 2004, felon voting
Harvard Political Review, May 4, 2004, felon voting
Minnesota, May/June 2004, sexual harassment
National Post (Canada), May 2004, Felon voting
National Public Radio (Sound Money), May 22, 2004, sexual harassment
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Lincoln Journal Star, Charleston Post and Courier, St. Louis Post-Dispatch April 26-28, 2004, sexual harassment
Austin American-Statesman, April 26, 2004, felon voting
Ithaca Times, April 15, 2004, felon voting
KCSN Radio (Los Angeles), April 1, 2004, sexual harassment
Minneapolis Star-Tribune, April 1, 2004, sexual harassment
Men’s Health, April 2004, sexual harassment
New York Times,March 28, 2004, felon voting - Florida
Washington Times, March 24, 2004, sexual harassment
WCCO Radio (Minneapolis), March 15, 2004, sexual harassment
San Francisco Chronicle,February 28, 2004, felon voting
Newsday, February 5, 2004, p. A33 (Manza/Uggen Op-Ed), reentry
Foxnews.com, February 2, 2004, felon voting
Minnesota Public Radio, January 21, 2004, prisoner reentry
National Review Online, January 8, 2004, felon voting
New York Times Magazine,December 13, 2003,"ideas" issue
The American Prospect, December, 2003, employment and crime
Pravda, December 4, 2003, felon voting
The Nation, November 24, 2003, Rebecca Perl interview
American Radio Works Whose Vote Counts? (National Public Radio affiliates), November 4, 2003
Ruth Koscielak Show (Minneapolis and affiliates), October 16, 2003
Christian Science Monitor, September 25, 2003, Alexandra Marks interview
Palm Beach Post, August 19, 2003, felon voting
Reason Online, July 25, 2003, felon voting
Washington Times, July 23, 2003, felon voting
Frontpage Magazine, July 18, 2003, felon voting
Los Angeles Times, July 18, 2003, p. B15 (Uggen/Manza Op-Ed): ex-felon voting
Minnesota, March-April 2003, felon voting
KCSN Radio (Los Angeles), February 20, 2003, felon voting
Footnotes (American Sociological Association), February 2003, felon voting
Minnesota Public Radio (Morning Edition), January 8, 2003, felon voting
WCCO Radio (Minneapolis), January 8, 2003, felon voting
Brisbane Courier-Mail (Australia), December 30, 2002, incarceration
New York Times, December 29, 2002, ex-felons
The Economist, August 10, 2002, ex-felons
The Washington Times, July 14, 2002, felon voting
National Review Online, May 2, 2002, felon voting
Time, January 21, 2002, felon voting
KMSP-TV News (Minneapolis), December 30, 2001, crime rates
Rolling Stone, August 20, 2001, felon voting
KUOW (Seattle)/National Public Radio, May 16, 2001, prison training
New York Times, May 15, 2001, felon voting
National Public Radio (All Things Considered), February 7, 2001, reentry
The Independent, January 14, 2001, Noam Chomsky on 2000 election
Washington Monthly, January/February 2001, felon voting
The Village Voice, December 6-12 2000, 2000 election
Minnesota Public Radio, November 16, 2001, felon voting
ABC-TV News, November 5, 2000, felon voting
New York Times, November 3, 2000, Felon voting
National Post (Canada), October 2, 2000, Felon voting
Mother Jones Online, October 16, 2000, Felon voting
National Law Journal, October 24, 2000, Felon voting
KSTP-TV News (Minneapolis), June, 2000, employment and crime
Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, May 8, 2000: Crime rates
KTCA-TV Almanac (St. Paul), July 9, 1999, crime statistics
Minneapolis Star-Tribune, January 30, 2007; December 31, 2005; June 5, 2005; June 13, 2004; April 1, 2004; October 15, 2003; May 30, 2001; May 8, 2000, September 17, 1998; November 15, 1995
St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 30, 2007; November 14, 2005; January 1, 2005; April 18, 2004; March 28, 2004; January 21, 2004; January 4, 2004; January 9, 2003; January 3, 2003; November 6, 2002; October 30, 2002; April 17, 2002; February 12, 2002; December 30, 2001; December 18, 2001; July 15, 2001; May 30, 2001; April 23, 2001; December 19, 2000, May 17, 1998
KTCA-TV Newsnight (St. Paul), several appearances, crime ratesprofiles and extended interviews
The Rights Stuff, April 2009, “Providing a Second Chance.”
Footnotes, July/August 2007, "Hartmann and Uggen are the New Editors of Contexts."
Facets, Spring 2005, "Doing Justice to Criminals."
CLA Today, Summer 2002, “Behrens and Uggen: From Questioning to Discovery.” Discussion of race and disenfranchisement collaboration.
University of Minnesota Foundation 2002 Report, “Vote of Confidence.” Photo and brief profile.
Sociology Faculty Research Activities, One-page bio in department brochure and website.
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