Contents
Message from the Chair ......................................................................................... 2
Welcome to Three New Colleagues ..................................................................... 3
Cawo Abdi ................................................................................................................ 4
Zack Almquist .......................................................................................................... 4
Ronald R. Aminzade ............................................................................................... 4
Alejandro Baer ......................................................................................................... 4
Yanjie Bian ............................................................................................................... 4
Elizabeth Heger Boyle ............................................................................................ 4
Jeffrey P. Broadbent ............................................................................................... 4
Jack DeWaard ......................................................................................................... 4
Penny Edgell ............................................................................................................ 4
Gabrielle Ferrales.................................................................................................... 4
Joseph Gerteis. ....................................................................................................... 4
Michael Goldman .................................................................................................... 4
Teresa Gowan ......................................................................................................... 4
Douglas Hartmann .................................................................................................. 4
Kathy Hull ................................................................................................................. 4
Erin Kelly .................................................................................................................. 4
David Knoke............................................................................................................. 4
Carolyn Liebler ........................................................................................................ 4
Enid Logan ............................................................................................................... 4
Carl P. Malmquist. ................................................................................................... 4
Ann Meier ................................................................................................................. 4
Phyllis Moen ............................................................................................................. 4
Jeylan T. Mortimer .................................................................................................. 4
Joshua Page ............................................................................................................ 4
Lisa Sun-Hee Park .................................................................................................. 4
David Pellow ............................................................................................................ 4
Michelle Phelps ....................................................................................................... 4
Joel Samaha ............................................................................................................ 4
Joachim J. Savelsberg ........................................................................................... 4
Rachel Schurman.................................................................................................... 4
Teresa Toguchi Swartz .......................................................................................... 4
Chris Uggen ............................................................................................................. 4
John Robert “Rob” Warren .................................................................................... 4
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Message from the Chair
The Sociology Department at the University of
Minnesota emphasizes excellence and access.
In terms of excellence, we maintain our commitment to
create compelling, relevant scholarship. The
department upholds its reputation for intellectual
diversity, with faculty publishing in every type of
sociology journal, from Critical Sociology to the
American Sociological Review. In summer 2013, we
begin hosting two high-profile journals within the department, Sociology of
Education (one of the American Sociological Association's four journals) and
Law & Society Review (the interdisciplinary journal of the Law & Society
Association). Moving beyond the traditional academic outlets,
thesocietypages.org continues to attract millions of hits and received the
2013 MERLOT Award (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and
Online Teaching) for outstanding, peer-reviewed online resources. (See the
link on the Department website).
Our graduate students benefit from the dynamic environment of the
department, co-authoring with faculty and working closely with them on
externally-funded grants and other projects from the moment they enter the
program. This environment explains why a number of our students go on to
publish their own sole-authored work while still in graduate school. It also
explains why our students do well on the job market. Our graduate program
is stronger than ever, and we anticipate its continued improvement.
In terms of access, we are proud that our top-notch Sociology and Law,
Crime, and Deviance programs continue to serve a diverse cadre of
undergraduates, many of whom are first-generation college students. For
four of the past five years, Sociology faculty members have received the
College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Teaching Award. We are constantly
expanding pathways for undergraduates to conduct their own independent
research, participate in community service learning, engage in internships,
and join with faculty and graduate students on long-term research projects.
These are challenging times. Inequality is at an all-time high while highereducation excellence and access are threatened. A great, low-cost public
education opened doors for many of us—to successful careers, to revealing
intellectual insights, to solutions to pressing problems. I hope that you will
join with us to advocate to keep those doors open for today's young people.
Given the same opportunities we had, I guarantee they will amaze and
inspire us.
Elizabeth Boyle
Professor and Chair
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Welcome to Three New Colleagues
We would like to welcome and introduce three new colleagues who will be
joining the department this fall.
Zack Almquist will be joining our department as well as
the School of Statistics as an assistant professor, Fall
2013. He completed his Ph.D. in Sociology at the
University of California, Irvine where he was a Graduate
Student Fellow in the Center for Networks and
Relational Analysis.
He also has an M.A. in
Demography from UCI and an M.S. in Statistics from
Northwestern University. His research lies at the
intersection of sociology, social network analysis, and
demography and has been published in such journals
as Sociological Methodology, the Journal of Statistical Software,
Demographic Research, and Social Networks.
Jack DeWaard will be joining our department as an
assistant professor, Fall 2013, through a hiring
initiative instigated by the Minnesota Population
Center. He completed his Ph.D. in Sociology and was
an NICHD Trainee in the Center for Demography and
Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His
research explores the relationships between migration,
ethnic and racial stratification and inequality, and
public perceptions of and policies towards immigrants.
In his dissertation, he investigated the association
between country-level patterns of international migration and the prevalence
of anti-foreigner sentiment in Europe. His work appears in Demography,
Demographic Research, and International Migration Review.
Michelle Phelps will be joining our department as an
assistant professor, Fall of 2013. She completed her
Ph.D. at Princeton University in Sociology and Social
Policy. Her research is in the sociology of punishment,
focusing in particular on the punitive turn in the U.S.
Her dissertation work focused on the rise of probation
supervision as a criminal justice sanction and its
relationship to mass incarceration. She also has
projects looking at the changes in rehabilitative
programming in U.S. prisons since the 1970s, the
recent decarceration trend and its implications for inequality, and inmates'
trajectories across prison contexts. She is published in Law & Policy,
Journal of Criminal Justice, and Law & Society Review
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Cawo Abdi
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2006 University of Sussex
Room 1146 Social Sciences
(612) 624-3714
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Migration; Gender, Race and Class; Family; Islam; Development Studies;
Human Rights; Globalization; Africa; Middle East.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Book Manuscript: “Journeys of Hope: Somali Experiences in South Africa,
America and the United Arab Emirates.”
Journeys of Hope is a comparative study investigating the migration
experiences of Somalis in South Africa, the United States, and the United
Arab Emirates. Focus on an African Muslim migrant group dispersed around
the globe provides an opportunity to pose common migration questions, but
in a comparative broader scale. In addition to advancing the scant
knowledge about the divergent comparative model, this study’s focus of a
Western settlement as well as non-western migrant expands and
complicates our understanding of diverse immigration policies as well as the
resulting migrant experiences.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Threatened Identities and Gendered Opportunities: Somali Migration to
America.” Forthcoming. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
“Muslim-American Youth and Homeland Politics: Competing
the War on Terror.” 2011. pp. 273-289. In Looming Shadows:
Integration at a time of Upheaval. European and American
Vedran Dzihic/ Thomas Schmidinger (eds.), Center for
Relations: John Hopkins University.
Narratives on
Migration and
Perspectives.
Transatlantic
“Moving Beyond ‘Xenophobia’: Structural Violence, Conflict and Encounters
with the ‘Other’ Africans.” 2011. Development Southern Africa 28(5): 691704.
“A Gendered Perspective on the Impact of Conflict in the Horn of Africa.”
2011. Nordic Africa Institute Policy Note 3.
“Convergence of Civil War and the Religious Right: Re-Imagining Somali
Women.” 2007. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 33(1):183207.
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Zack Almquist
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2013 University of California, Irvine
Room 960 Social Sciences
(612) 624-1895
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Social Network Analysis, Mathematical and Computational Sociology,
Spatial Analysis, Demography, Public Health, Methodology, and Human
Judgment and Decision Making
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Prof. Almquist’s scholarship is centered in two primary areas: social
network analysis including research on the effects of geography and time on
social processes (and large-scale social structure) and the measurement
and sampling of social networks; and demography, where he looks to
integrate spatial analysis and social network analysis with classic and formal
demographic theory. Underlying both of these themes is a strong interest in
developing statistical techniques for application to social science problems,
especially social network analysis and demography.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Logistic Network Regression for Scalable Analysis of Networks with Joint
Edge/Vertex Dynamics” with Carter T Butts. Forthcoming. Sociological
Methodology.
“Random Errors in Egocentric Networks”. 2012. Social Networks 34:493505.
“Point Process Models for Household Distributions within Small Areal Units,”
with Carter T. Butts. 2012. Demographic Research 26:593–632.
“US Census Spatial and Demographic Data in R: The UScensus2000 Suite
of Packages”. 2010. Journal of Statistical Software 37:1-31.
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Ronald R. Aminzade
Professor
Ph.D. 1978 University of Michigan
Room 1031 Social Sciences
(612) 624-9570
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Historical and Comparative; Political Sociology; Sociology of Development;
Nationalism; Race Relations; Social Movements; Democratic Theory.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Prof. Aminzade is currently working on an article on the politics of
administrative corruption in East Africa and another article for an edited
volume on the sociology of development that explores the relationship
between nationalism and development in a global neoliberal economy.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Post-Colonial Africa: The
Case of Tanzania. Forthcoming. Fall 2013. Cambridge University Press.
“The Dialectic of Nation-Building in Post-Colonial
Sociological Quarterly Forthcoming. Summer 2013.
Tanzania.”
The
“Neoliberal Capitalism and the Death of Politics in Africa.” 2009. Symposium
on African Politics. Newsletter of the Political Sociology Section of the
American Sociological Association. Spring: 1, 3, 4.
“Nation Building in Post-Colonial Nation-States: The Cases of Tanzania and
Fiji,” with Erik Larson. 2009. International Social Science Journal 192:169182.
“Nation-States Confront the Global: Discourses of Indigenous Rights in Fiji
and Tanzania,” with Erik Larson. 2007. The Sociological Quarterly
48(4):801-831.
“From Race to Citizenship: The Indigenization Debate in Post-Socialist
Tanzania.” 2003. Studies in Comparative International Development 38(1):
43-63.
“The Politics of Race and Nation: Citizenship and Africanization in
Tanganyika.” 2001. Pp. 53-90 in Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 14,
edited by Diane E. Davis. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
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Alejandro Baer
Associate Professor &
Director, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
Ph.D 2003 Complutense University, Madrid
Room 252 & 1133 Social Sciences
612-624-7548
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Social Memory Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Sociology of
Religion, Media and Communication, Antisemitism, Judaism, Qualitative
Methods, Visual Sociology.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Prof. Baer conducts research on the representation of present and past
mass violence in a global arena of interconnected memory cultures
(particularly the cases of Spain, Argentina and the Holocaust). Recent work
involves a series of articles on how memories of the Holocaust condition
ways in which the memory building process takes shape in contemporary
Spain, and an assessment of theory and research methods for the study of
contemporary Antisemitism. With Bernt Schnettler he is editing a special
issue on “Visual Sociology” for the journal Soziale Welt.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“The Blind Spots of Secularization. A Qualitative Approach to the Study of
Antisemitism in Spain,” with Paula López. 2012. Special Issue of European
Societies 14(2):1-19.
“Holocaust Memory as Knowledge Network: Between Global Community of
Values and Universal Symbolic Culture,” with Bernt Schnettler. 2012. Pp
633-648 inTransnationale Vergesellschaftungen,Verhandlungen des 35.
Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Frankfurt 2010,
edited by H.G. Soeffner. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. German.
“The Voids of Sepharad. The Memory of the Holocaust in Spain.” 2011.
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. 12(1):95-120.
“Anthropology & Human Rights” 2010. Special Issue of Revista de
Antropologia Social, edited with M.J. Devillard. Spanish.
“Digital Memory: The Visual Recording of Mass Grave Exhumations in
Contemporary Spain,” with F. Ferrandiz. 2008. Forum Qualitative Social
Research 9(3).
Holocaust: Remembrance and Representation. 2006. Madrid: Losada.
Spanish.
Audio-visual Testimony. Image & Memory of the Holocaust. 2005. Madrid:
Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas. Spanish.
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Yanjie Bian
Professor
Ph.D. 1990 State University of New York, Albany
Room 967 Social Sciences
(612) 624-9554
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Economic sociology; Social networks; Social stratification; Chinese society.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Guanxi-based corporate social capital; Social networks and jobs in Chinese
cities; Institutional change and social mobility in post-Mao China.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Guanxi Culture and Guanxi Social Capital” With Lei Zhang, 2013. Journal
of Humanities (1): 107-113.
“Dual Social Networks and Their Distributions: A China-Britain Comparison”
With Mingsong Hao, 2013. Journal of Sociological Research (2).
Social Networks and Status Attainment: The 8-Chinese City Social Survey.
With others, 2012. Beijing: Social Science Academic Press.
“The Chinese General Social Survey (2003-2008): Sample Designs and
Data Evaluation” With Lulu Li, 2012. Chinese Sociological Review 45: 7097.
“A Social Network Model of Job-Search Processes: Testing the Guanxi
Effect Hypothesis.” With Wenhong Zhang and Cheng Cheng, 2012. Chinese
Journal of Sociology (3): 24-27.
“Network Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Environmentalism:
Findings from Chinese General Social Survey.” Pp. 37-53 in Social Capital
and Civic Engagement in Asia, edited by Amita Daniere and Hy Luong.
London and New York: Routledge.
“Sector-Crossing Social Capital and Its Impact on Wage Income” With
Wang, Zhang, and Cheng, 2012. Chinese Social Sciences. No. 2:110-126.
“Relational Sociology and Its Academic Significance.” 2010. Journal of
Xi’an Jiaotong University (Social Sciences) 30 (May): 1-6.
“Network Resources and Job Mobility in China’s Transitional Economy,” with
Xianbi Huang. 2009. Research in the Sociology of Work 19:255-282.
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Elizabeth Heger Boyle
Professor and Chair
Ph.D. 1996 Stanford University
J.D. 1987 University of Iowa
Room 909 Social Sciences
(612) 624-3343
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Sociology of Law; Globalization; Children’s and Women’s Rights.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Abortion Politics in the Global Arena. Transnational organizations from the
International Planned Parenthood Association to the Roman Catholic
Church have gotten involved in shaping abortion policies around the world.
How has this affected governments’ regulation of abortion and what are the
implications for women?
“Integrated Demographic and Health Survey Project.” Funded by the
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“When Do Laws Matter? National Minimum-Age-of-Marriage Laws, Child
Rights, and Adolescent Fertility, 1989-2007,” with Minzee Kim, Wesley
Longhofer & Hollie Nyseth Brehm. Forthcoming 2013. Law & Society
Review.
“Female Genital Cutting.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies. Ed.
Heather Montgomery. New York: Oxford University Press [online].
“Neoliberalism, Transnational Education Norms, and Education Spending in
the Developing World, 1983-2004,” with Minzee Kim. 2012. Law & Social
Inquiry 37(2): 367-394. (Reprinted in Transnational Legal Process and State
Change).
“Analyzing the Power of Child Rights Discourse in the Global Community,”
with Hollie Nyseth Brehm. 2011. Human Rights: New Possibilities/New
Problems, edited by Austin Sarat. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.
“Law and Culture in a Global Context: The Practice of Female Genital
Cutting,” with Amelia Corl. 2010. Annual Review of Law and
Social Science 6:195-215.
“Achieving Success in Business: A Comparison of Somali- and American
Born Entrepreneurs in Minneapolis,” with Shannon Golden and Yasin Jama.
2010. The CURA Reporter 40(1-2):43-51.
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Jeffrey P. Broadbent
Professor
Ph.D. 1982 Harvard University
Room 1026 Social Sciences
(612) 624-1828
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Political Sociology; Environmental Sociology; Social Movements; Network
Analysis; Discourse Analysis, Institutions and Culture; Cross-national
Comparative Methods; Climate Change; Japan; East Asia; Field Work.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
COMPON-Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks.
Comparative study of how discourse and mobilization affect national policies
to mitigate (reduce) climate change. Research teams in over 20 countries
and at the level of international negotiations collect equivalent data for
comparative analysis. Funded by National Science Foundation
Networks and Polities: Japan’s “Butterfly State” in U.S. and German
comparison. How do multiple political networks define polities?
Pathways to Participation: How do networks and resources affect the
participation of environmental NGOs in Japanese government policy
formation about climate change?
Culture and Governance: Does culture affect the authoritarian stateenvironmental movement relationship?—China, Taiwan, South Korea,
Soviet Union and Japan: Funded by East Asian Institute, Seoul, Korea.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Asian Societies and Climate Change: Global Events and Domestic
Discourse” with Sun-Jin Yun, Dowan Ku, Kazuhiro Ikeda, Keiichi Satoh,
Sony Pellissery, Pradip Swarnarkar, Tze-Luen Lin, Ho-Ching Lee and Jun
Jin. 2013. Globality Studies Journal (forthcoming)
“Introduction: East Asian Social Movements.” 2011. Pp. 1-30. East Asian
Social Movements: Power, Protest and Change in a Dynamic Region, J.
Broadbent and V. Brockman (editors). New York: Springer.
“Science and Climate Change Policy Making: A Comparative Network
Perspective.” 2010. Pp.187-214. Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for
Climate Change, A. Sumi, K. Fukushi, A. Hiramatsu (editors), New York:
Springer. Introduces framework of Compon project (see above).
“What do we know and what do we need to know?” 2010. Pp. 47-49. J.
Nagel, T. Dietz, J. Broadbent (editors). Workshop on Sociological
Perspectives on Global Climate Change. National Science Foundation and
Amer. Soc. Assoc.
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Jack DeWaard
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2013 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Room 1148 Social Sciences
(612) 624-9522
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
International and Internal Migration; Ethnic and Racial Stratification and
Inequality; Assimilation and Integration; Demography and Ecology,
Quantitative Methods—Demographic, Statistical, Mathematical and Spatial.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Curtis, Katherine J., Elizabeth Fussell and Jack DeWaard. “The impact of
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the Gulf of Mexico migration system.”
DeWaard, Jack and Guy J. Abel. “Migrants' expected time of residence in
receiving countries: A systems approach.”
DeWaard, Jack, Katherine J. Curtis and Glenn V. Fuguitt. “Reconsidering
black (and white) migration to the South: The temporal dynamics of
migration flows to southern counties.”
Fussell, Elizabeth, Katherine J. Curtis and Jack DeWaard. “Change in the
city of New Orleans’ migration system after Hurricane Katrina” (invited
submission).
Over the next few years my research agenda will be centered on the theme
of migration systems, and will include the following five components.
 A theoretical synthesis of migration systems theory, including past and
recent developments and emergent research needs.
 Descriptive efforts working with new global migration flow data.
 Empirical linkages to processes of ethnic and racial stratification and
inequality in the United States.
 Formal models connecting global migration patterns to immigrants’
[health] assimilation in the United States.
 A generalized systems framework for modeling and understanding
disaster-oriented migration.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Compositional and Temporal Dynamics of International Migration in the
EU/EFTA: A New Metric for Assessing Countries’ Immigration and
Integration Policies.” International Migration Review (lead article). In press.
“The Temporal Dynamics of International Migration in Europe: Recent
Trends” with James Raymer. 2012. Demographic Research, 26:543-592.
“Migration Systems in Europe: Evidence from Harmonized Flow Data” with
Keuntae Kim and James Raymer. 2012. Demography, 49:1307-1333.
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Penny Edgell
Professor
Ph.D. 1995 University of Chicago
Room 1039 Social Sciences
(612) 624-9828
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Culture; Religion; Gender & Family; Symbolic Boundaries & Inequality
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Prof. Edgell is working with a colleague, Prof. Hull, on a research project
funded by the National Science Foundation, analyzing how religious,
scientific, and legal frameworks intersect to shape citizens’ understandings
of controversial social issues (e.g. like genetic engineering, Intelligent
Design, or GLBT adoption). She is also working with colleagues on a
second wave of the American Mosaic Project, also funded by the National
Science Foundation, to analyze how Americans make sense of racial,
religious, and other forms of diversity in American life.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Making Ends Meet: Insufficiency and Work-Family Coordination in the New
Economy,” with Samantha Ammons & Eric Dahlin. 2012. Journal of Family
Issues 33(8): 999-1026.
“A Cultural Sociology of Religion – New Directions.” 2012. Annual Review
of Sociology (38): 247-265.
“Shared Visions? Diversity and Cultural Membership in American Life,” with
Eric Tranby. 2010. Social Problems 57(2):175-204.
“Religious Influences on Understandings of Racial Inequality in the United
States,” with Eric Tranby. 2007. Social Problems 54(2):263-288.
“Beyond the Nuclear Family? Familism and Gender Ideology in Diverse
Religious Communities,” with Danielle Docka. 2007. Sociological Forum
22(1):25-50.
“Atheists as ‘Other’: Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in
American Society,” with Joseph Gerteis and Douglas Hartmann. 2006.
American Sociological Review 72(2):211-234.
Religion and Family in a Changing Society. 2005. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press.
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Gabrielle Ferrales
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2009, Northwestern University
J.D. 1997, Georgetown University
Room 1152 Social Sciences
(612) 624-5021
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Law and Society; Gender; Criminology and Criminal Justice; International
Criminal Law; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods; Factorial Survey
Methods for Empirical Analysis.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Prof. Ferrales’s scholarship lies at the intersection of gender, crime and law.
Her current research examines in three distinct case studies the legal
treatment of gender-based violence in both domestic and international
contexts including: a factorial survey quantitative analysis of the sentencing
decisions of Iraqi judges; an examination of prosecutorial decision-making in
a domestic violence unit of a state district attorney’s office; and studying
rape victimization survey data and field interviews collected in the Darfur
region of Sudan.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Gender Violence in Warfare,” with Suzy Maves McElrath. 2012.
Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook on Gender, Sex, and Crime, edited by
Bill McCarthy and Rosemary Gartner.
“Collaboration and Resistance in the Punishment of Torture in Iraq: A
Judicial Sentencing Experiment,” with John Hagan and Guillermina Jasso.
2010. Wisconsin International Law Journal 28(1):1-33.
“The Public Sociology of Sanctioning Torture in Iraq: A Case Study of
Forced Democracy and the Rule of the Law,” with John Hagan and
Guillermina Jasso. 2008. Actes de la Recherché en Sciences Socials
174:34-43.
“How Law Rules: Torture, Terror, and the Normative Judgments of Iraqi
Judges,” with John Hagan and Guillermina Jasso. 2008. Law and Society
Review 42(3):605-643.
• 2008 Law and Society Association Best Article Prize
“Swaying the Hand of Justice: The Internal and External Dynamics of
Regime Change at the International Criminal Courts of the Former
Yugoslavia,” with John Hagan and Ron Levi. 2006. Law & Social Inquiry
31(3):585-616.
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Joseph Gerteis.
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Ph.D. 1999, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Room 1125 Social Sciences
(612) 624-1615
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Historical Sociology; Politics and Social Movements; Social Theory;
Diversity and Solidarity in American Society.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Prof. Gerteis is interested in the dynamics of difference and solidarity and
how these play into the formation of group boundaries, interests, and
identities. He is currently exploring how Americans think about both the
benefits and costs of diversity, as well as how claims about American
national identity often involve racial and religious exclusions. His recent
work has involved a book on interracial labor movements of the late 19 th
century and papers from the American Mosaic Project exploring how
Americans think about issues of diversity and solidarity in modern America
through the lenses of race and religion.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Classical Sociological Theory and Contemporary Sociological Theory,
edited with Craig Calhoun, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, and Indermohan
Virk. 2012. 3rd ed. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
“Ethnic Community and Ethnic Boundaries in a ‘Sauce Scented
Neighborhood’” with Jon Smajda. 2012. Social Forces 27(3):617-640.
“An Empirical Assessment of Whiteness Theory: Hidden from How Many?”
with Doug Hartmann and Paul Croll. 2009. Social Problems 56(3):403-424.
Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor
and the Populist Movement. 2007. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
“Atheists as 'Other': Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in American
Society,” with Penny Edgell and Douglas Hartmann. 2006. American
Sociological Review 71(2):211-234.
“Dealing with Diversity: Mapping Multiculturalism in Sociological Terms,”
with Douglas Hartmann. 2005. Sociological Theory 23(2):218-240.
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Michael Goldman
Associate Professor
Arthur Motley Exemplary Teaching Award Winner
Ph.D. 1994 University of California, Santa Cruz
Room 952 Social Sciences
(612) 624-0051
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Transnational, Political, and Environmental Sociology; Global Urbanization;
Transnational Institutions of Finance, Development, & Expert Networks.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Provincializing global urbanism; the making of a world city: Bangalore, India;
securitization, discipline and finance in the new global economy.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the next World City.” 2011.
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25:3.
“Speculating on the Next World City” Forthcoming. Aihwa Ong and Ananya
Roy, eds., Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global,
NY and London: Basil Blackwell Publishers.
"Making World Cities," with Wes Longhofer. 2009. Contexts 8(1, Winter),
reprinted in Hartmann and Uggen, Contexts Reader, NY: Norton 2011.
"How 'Water for All!' Became Hegemonic: The Power of the World Bank and
its Transnational Policy Networks." 2007. Special issue on global water
policy. Geoforum 38(5):786-800.
"Under New Management: Historical Context and Current Challenges at the
World Bank." 2007. Special issue on Wolfowitz’s bank. Brown Journal of
World Affairs 8(2, Summer):11-25.
“El neoliberalismo verde.” 2006. Pp. 185-210 in Las Politicas de la Tierra,
edited by A. Guerra and J. F. T. Tortajada. Madrid: Editorial Sistema.
Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age
of Globalization. 2005. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press.
Yale UP paperback edition, 2006; India edition, Hyderabad: Orient Longman
Press, 2006; Japanese edition, Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2008.
"Tracing the Routes/Roots of World Bank Power." 2005. Special issue on
new development policy. International Journal of Sociology and Social
Policy 25(1/2):10-29
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Teresa Gowan
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2003 University of California, Berkeley
Room 1080 Social Sciences
(612) 626-1863
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Urban Sociology; Ethnography; Poverty and Inequality; Consumption;
Alternative Economies
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Since 1980 there have been some deep shifts in the American
understanding and management of poverty. My 2010 book Hobos, Hustlers,
and Backsliders analyzes the medicalization and criminalization of
homelessness. A closely-related development has been the increasing
importance of 12-step discourse and a modified, “strong-arm” version of
rehab to contemporary strategies of poverty management. My most largescale project current project examines this crucial role of addiction treatment
within contemporary social policy. With several Minnesota students, I have
been studying local institutions applying the important contemporary
approaches to drug interventions. Two of the sites work closely with local
courts – one a “strong-arm” therapeutic community strongly shaped by the
12-step tradition, the other an evangelical institution focused on conversion
– both place a strong emphasis on a holistic makeover of the individual,
instilling a strict moral code, self-discipline and a strong work ethic. The third
site, now closed due to a funding crisis, was a needle and syringe exchange
and community center following the alternative “harm reduction” model
which emphasizes practical, "non-judgmental" health education and
outreach. With four co-authored articles on the different sites in print to date
I’m now working on a book manuscript bringing the elements of the project
together.
Other current research includes a) a collaborative project on branded labor
among young low-wage retail and service workers, and b) a forthcoming
chapter on the politics of micro-production in the Pyrenees.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Making the Criminal Addict: Subjectivity and Social Control in a Strong-arm
Rehab” with Sarah Whetstone. 2012. Punishment & Society 14(1):69–93.
“Addiction, Agency, and the Politics of Self-control: Doing Harm Reduction
in a Heroin Users’ Group” with Sarah Whetstone and Tanja Andic. 2012.
Social Science & Medicine 74:1251–60.
Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco. 2010.
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
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Douglas Hartmann
Professor
Ph.D. 1997 University of California, San Diego
Room 835 Social Sciences
(612) 624-0835
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Race, Ethnicity, Migration, Integration; Culture (including Popular Culture,
Sports, and Religion); Social Movements and Social Change; American
Society; Field Methods; Contemporary Theory.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Midnight Basketball; Sport and Social Intervention; Race, Religion, and
Pluralism (The American Mosaic Project); The Society Pages.org.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
The Contexts Reader, Second Edition with Christopher Uggen. 2011. New
York: Norton Press.
“Beyond the Sporting Boundary: The Racial Significance of Sport through
Midnight Basketball.” 2012. Ethnic and Racial Studies 35(6): 1-18.
“Sport and Development: An Overview, Critique, and Reconstruction,” with
Christina Kwauk. 2011. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 35(3): 284-305.
“How Americans Understand Racial and Religious Difference: A Test of
Parallel Items from a National Survey,” with Dan Winchester, Penny Edgell,
and Joe Gerteis. 2011. The Sociological Quarterly 52(3): 232-345.
“Race-Based Critical Theory and the ‘Happy Talk’ of Diversity in America,”
with Joyce Bell. 2011. Pp. 259-277 in Illuminating Social Life: Classical and
Contemporary Theory Revisited, edited by Peter Kivisto. Sage.
"An Empirical Assessment of Whiteness Theory: Hidden from How Many?,"
with Joseph Gerteis and Paul Croll. 2009. Social Problems 56(3):403-424.
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Kathy Hull
Associate Professor
Ph. D. 2001 Northwestern University
Room 1131 Social Sciences
(612) 624-4339
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Culture; Law; Social Movements; Family; Gender and Sexuality.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
“The Construction and Contestation of ‘Family’ in LGBT Communities.” This
project draws upon interviews and focus groups to examine the close
relationships in the lives of sexual minorities and gender variant people.
LGBT people are often invoked as threats to family in “family values”
discourses, even as the gay rights movement focuses more than ever on a
range of family issues including marriage and parenting rights. This project
seeks to advance theorizing about nontraditional families.
“The Role of Cognition in the Development of Social Fragmentation,
Commonalities, and Consensus.” This NSF-funded project with Professor
Penny Edgell uses focus group discussions of contemporary social
controversies to examine how ordinary citizens deliberate on complex
issues and evaluate competing forms of expert discourse from religion,
science and law.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Same-Sex Marriage and Constituent Perceptions of the LGBT Rights
Movement,” with Timothy Ortyl. Forthcoming in (Not) the Marrying Kind,
edited by V. Taylor and M. Bernstein, University of Minnesota Press.
“The Changing Landscape of Love and Marriage,” with Ann Meier and
Timothy Ortyl. 2010. Contexts 9(2):32-37.
Review of When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies
Legalize Same-Sex Marriage, by M. V. Lee Badgett. 2010. Contemporary
Sociology 39(6): 684-5.
“Young Adult Relationship Values at the Intersection of Gender and
Sexuality,” with Ann Meier and Timothy Ortyl. 2009. Journal of Marriage
and Family 71(3):510-525.
Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law. 2006.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Erin Kelly
Professor & Director, Life Course Center
Ph.D. 2000 Princeton University
Room 1133 Social Sciences
(612) 624-0228
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Organizations and Work; Gender; Family and the Life Course; Law and
Social Policy.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Prof. Kelly studies changes in U.S. workplaces and their effects on
employees, families, and organizations. She is principal investigator, with
Phyllis Moen, of the Flexible Work and Well-Being Center, part of the Work,
Family, and Health Network funded by the National Institutes of Health and
the Centers for Disease Control. See www.flexiblework.umn.edu/ for more
information.
Prof. Kelly has investigated flexibility initiatives, non-compliance with the
Family and Medical Leave Act, sexual harassment policies, and employersponsored child care benefits, as well as the effects of diversity policies on
the representation of women and African-Americans in managerial
positions.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Changing Workplaces to Reduce Work-Family Conflict: Schedule Control in
a White-Collar Organization,” with Phyllis Moen and Eric Tranby. 2011.
American Sociological Review 76:265-90.
“Does Enhancing Work-Time Control and Flexibility Reduce Turnover? A
Naturally Occurring Experiment,” with Phyllis Moen and Rachelle Hill. 2010.
Social Problems 58:69−98.
“Failure to Update: An Institutional Perspective on Noncompliance with the
Family & Medical Leave Act.” 2010. Law and Society Review 44:33-66.
“Gendered Challenge, Gendered Response: Confronting the Ideal Worker
Norm in a White-Collar Organization," with Samantha K. Ammons, Kelly
Chermack, and Phyllis Moen. 2010. Gender and Society 24:281-303.
“Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate
Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies,” with Alexandra Kaley and Frank
Dobbin. 2006. American Sociological Review 71(4):589-617.
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David Knoke
Professor
Ph.D. 1972 University of Michigan
Room 939 Social Sciences
(612) 624-6816
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Social Networks; Economic Sociology; Organizations and Work.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Investigations of diverse networks, including intra- and interorganizational,
health care, economic, financial, terrorist and counterterror networks.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Economic Networks. 2012. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
“Organizational Status Growth and Structure: An Alliance Network Analysis’”
with Francisco Granados. Forthcoming. Social Networks.
“‘It Takes a Network’: The Rise and Fall of Social Network Analysis in U.S.
Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine.” Forthcoming. Connections.
“The Origins of Social Network Analysis.” Forthcoming. Encyclopedia of
Social Network Analysis and Mining (ESNAM), edited by Reda Alhajj and
Jon Rockne. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
“‘We’re Still Dancing’: How Global Financial Networks Took the World
Economy to the Brink, and Could Yet Push It Over.” Forthcoming. Journal of
Sociology and Social Anthropology.
“Do Nonprofits Treat Their Employees Differently? Incentive Pay and
Health Benefits,” With Xinxiang Chen and Ting Ren. Forthcoming. Nonprofit
Management & Leadership.
“Policy Network Models,” with Chen-Yu Wu. 2012. The Routledge
Encyclopedia of Public Policy, edited by Eduardo Araral. London:
Routledge.
“The Teamwork in Assertive Community Treatment (TACT) Scale:
Development and Validation,” with Douglas R. Wholey, Xi Zhu, Pri Shah,
Mary Zellmer-Bruhn and Thomas F. Witheridge. 2012. Psychiatric Services
63(11):1108-1117.
“Social Networks and Terrorism.” 2012. Pp. 232-246 in Social Networking
and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures,
edited by M. Safar and K. Mahdi. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
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Carolyn Liebler
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2001 University of Wisconsin, Madison
Room 1135 Social Sciences
(612) 624-5506
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Race and Ethnicity; Social Demography; Indigenous Peoples; Social
Stratification; Sociology of the Family and Life Course; Social Support.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Prof. Liebler is fascinated by the translation of individuals’ racial identities
into their answers to standardized questions about race, as well as the ways
in which these answers are grouped to form the statistics used by social
scientists and policy makers. Ongoing projects address aspects of the
process of translation from racial identities of individuals to race statistics
describing a society, a process complicated by dynamic identities,
questionnaire wording, and place-specific social history.
The Minnesota Research Data Center is providing the best available data
for Prof. Liebler to study: Why do some people answer the new race
question differently than might be expected? What are the characteristics of
people who have especially fluid answers to census questions about race?
Prof. Liebler also studies American Indians, multiracial people, and
transracial adoption. For example, in a multi-organization collaboration, she
is gathering the stories of interracially adopted adult adoptees.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“American Indians without Tribes in the 21st Century” with Meghan Zacher.
2012. Ethnic and Racial Studies.
“Homelands and Indigenous Identities in a Multiracial Era.” 2010. Social
Science Research 39:596-609.
"A Group in Flux: Multiracial American Indians and the Social Construction
of Race." 2010. Pp. 131-144 in Multiracial Americans and Social Class: The
Influence of Social Class on Racial Identity, edited by K. O. Korgen. New
York and Oxford: Routledge Press.
“A Practical Approach to Using Multiple-Race Response Data: A Bridging
Method for Public-Use Microdata," with Andrew Halpern-Manners. 2008.
Demography 45(1):143-155.
“Pondering Poi Dog: The Importance of Place to the Racial Identification of
Mixed-Race Native Hawaiians," with Shawn Malia Kana'iupuni. 2005. Ethnic
and Racial Studies 28(4)687-721.
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Enid Logan
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2005 University of Michigan
Room 956 Social Sciences
(612) 624-3598
[email protected]
enidlogan.blogspot.com/
INTEREST AREAS:
Blackness in the Americas, Contemporary U.S. Race Relations; Race & the
Body, Race & Electoral Politics, Blacks and Social Class, Afro-Latin America
CURRENT RESEARCH:
At the center of Professor Logan’s research agenda is the study of the
evolving social construct of blackness in the 21 st century. At present, Logan
is working on a number of projects pertaining to race and to blackness, in
connection with electoral politics, social class, pedagogy, and the body.
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Desirable (?) Hispanics and The Problem with The Blacks – the
Republican Party’s Rocky Road to “Diversity”
Configuring the First Black President: Embodied Dimensions of the
New Politics of Race
Mainstream, Articulate and Not Too Black: Barack Obama and the
Conditional Embrace of the Black Middle Class
Black Racial Futures: Social Class and Disparate Trajectories of Black
Racialization
Crack Babies & Meth Moms: Bodies at the Intersections of Science,
Medicine, Gender & Race
The Natural Hair Movement- The Racial Politics of Beauty in a PostRacial Age
Using Autobiographical Narrative to Facilitate Student Learning about
Race, Gender, Class & Sexuality
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“At This Defining Moment”: Barack Obama's Presidential Candidacy and the
New
Politics
of
Race.
2011
New
York:
NYU
Press.
“Social Status, Race and the Timing of Marriage in Cuba’s First
Constitutional Era,1902-1940.” 2011. Journal of Family History 36(1): 52-71.
“Each Sheep with Its Mate: Marking Race and Legitimacy in Cuban
Ecclesiastical Archives, 1890-1940.” 2010. The New West Indian Guide/
Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 84(1): 5-39.
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Carl P. Malmquist.
Professor
M.D. 1959 University of Minnesota
Room 1174 Social Sciences
(612) 624-4147
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Juvenile Justice; Homicide; Adolescence; Law and Society; Law and the
Mental Health System.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Depression and Its Relationship to Violence; Characteristics of Juveniles
Who Commit Paracides; Infanticide and Comparative Legal Issues PostTermination Relationships with Professionals; Borderline Personality
Disorders: A High-Risk Group for Violence.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Adolescent Parricide as a Clinical and Legal Problem.” 2010. Journal of the
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 38(1):73-79.
“School Violence.” 2008. Pp. 537-554 in Textbook of Violence Assessment
and Management, edited by R. I. Simon and K. Tardiff. Arlington, VA:
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
“Combined Murder-Suicide.” 2006. Pp. 495-510 in Textbook of Suicide
Assessment and Management, edited by R. I. Simon and R. E. Hales.
Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Homicide: A Psychiatric Perspective. 2006. 2nd ed. Washington, DC:
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
• 2006 American Psychological Association Guttmacher Award
“Juveniles and the Adult Criminal Justice System.” 2003. Pp. 489-494 in
Textbook of Adolescent Psychiatry, edited by .R. Ratner and R. Rosner.
London: Arnold Press.
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Ann Meier
Associate Professor & Dir of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. 2003 University of Wisconsin, Madison
Room 1127 Social Sciences
(612) 626-7230
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Family and Life Course; Adolescent and Young Adult Development;
Research Methods.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
“Adolescent Sexual Activity and Well-Being.” This project examines the
effects of early sexual activity on a number of domains of adolescent life. A
current study examines the role of friend and school norms in shaping the
effects of sex on mental health, academic outcomes, and risk behaviors.
“Families and Variation in Adolescent Well-Being.” This project investigates
the ways that differences within families manifest in adolescent well-being.
One article finds the well-being of children from high conflict continuously
married parent families is similar to those from single-parent families. Other
studies examine the role of shared family dinners in promoting well-being
and conditions under which family dinner effects are positive or negative.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"Assessing Causality and Persistence in Associations between Family
Dinners and Adolescent Well-Being,” with Kelly Musick. 2012. Journal of
Marriage and Family. 74(June 2012): 476-493.
“Are Both Parents Always Better Than One? Parental Conflict and Young
Adult Well-being,” with Kelly Musick. 2010. Social Science Research 39(5):
814-830.
“Young Adult Relationship Values at the Intersection of Gender and
Sexuality,” with Kathleen Hull and Timothy Ortyl. 2009. Journal of Marriage
and Family 71(3):510-525.
“Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood: Evidence from the
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health,” with Gina Allen. 2009.
The Sociological Quarterly 50:308-335.
“Adolescent First Sex and Subsequent Mental Health.” 2007. American
Journal of Sociology 112(6):1811-1847.
“Adolescents' Transition to First Intercourse, Religiosity and Attitudes about
Sex.” 2003. Social Forces 81(3):1031-1052.
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Phyllis Moen
Professor, McKnight Presidential Chair in Sociology
Ph.D. 1978 University of Minnesota
Room 1123 Social Sciences
(612) 625-5483
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Work, Family, Health, Policy, Age and the Gendered Life Course
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Prof. Moen investigates organizational work-time policies and practices,
employee time strains, psychological and physical health outcomes; and the
work-family interface to make it more compatible with the rest of life. She codirects (with Prof. Erin Kelly) the Flexible Work and Well-Being Center, part
of a larger NIH-funded research network initiative studying ways to promote
individual and family health and life quality by increasing the degree of
flexibility around the clockworks of paid work. Prof. Moen also engages in
research on gender, couples, and time use, as well as work, retirement and
volunteering in the life course.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Time Work by Overworked Professionals: Strategies in Response to the
Stress of Higher Status” with Jack Lam, Samantha Ammons, and Erin L.
Kelly. 2013. Work & Occupations, 40(2): 79-114.
“Limited Engagements? Women’s and Men’s Work/Volunteer Time in the
Encore Life Course Stage” with Sarah Flood. 2013. Social Problems, 60(2):
1-28.
“Team-Level Flexibility, Work-Home Spillover, and Health Behavior” with
Wen Fan and Erin L. Kelly. 2013. Social Science & Medicine 84: 69-79.
“Healthy Work Revisited: Do Changes in Time Strain Predict Well-Being?”
with Erin L. Kelly and Jack Lam. 2013. Journal of Occupational Health
Psychology, 18(2): 157-172.
“Aging, Families and the Gendered Life Course” with Jack Lam, and
Melanie Jackson. 2013. In Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of
Families. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
“Constrained Choices: The Shifting Institutional Contexts of Aging and the
Life Course” 2012. In Perspectives on the Future of the Sociology of Aging
(pp. 81-119). Washington, DC: National Research Council.
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Jeylan T. Mortimer
Professor
Ph.D. 1972 University of Michigan
Room 1014b Social Sciences
(612) 624-4064
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
The Life Course; Social Psychology; Work.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
The “Youth Development Study” examines developmental pathways and
intergenerational dynamics from adolescence through early adulthood.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Work Values, Early Career Difficulties, and the U.S. Economic Recession.”
with Monica Johnson & Rayna Sage. Social Psychology Quarterly 75:242267. 2012
“Weathering the Great Recession: Psychological and Behavioral
Trajectories in the Transition from School to Work ,” with Mike Vuolo &
Jeremy Staff. Developmental Psychology 48:1759-1773. 2012
“The Evolution, Contributions, and Prospects of the Youth Development
Study: An Investigation in Life Course Social Psychology.” Social
Psychology Quarterly 75: 5-27. 2012
“Explaining the Motherhood Wage Penalty During the Early Occupational
Career,” with Jeremy Staff. Demography 49:1-21. 2012
“The Impact of Sexual Harassment on Depressive Symptoms during the
Early Occupational Career,” with Jason Houle, Jeremy Staff, Christopher
Uggen, & Amy Blackstone. Society and Mental Health 1: 89-105. 2011.
“Origins and Outcomes of Judgments about Work ,” with Monica Johnson.
Social Forces 89:1239-1260. 2011
“Safety Nets and Scaffolds: Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood,”
with Teresa Swartz, Minzee Kim, Mayumi Uno, & Kirsten Bengtson.
Journal of Marriage and the Family 73: 414-429. 2011
Classic and Contemporary Perspectives in Social Psychology, Edited with
Sharon E. Preves. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press. 2011.
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Joshua Page
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 2007 University of California, Berkeley
Room 935 Social Sciences
(612) 624-9333
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Crime, Law, Deviance, and Punishment; Labor and Unionization; Political
Sociology; Qualitative Research Methods; Social Theory.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
The Minnesota Juvenile Justice Transitions Project: This study analyzes the
transition of young offenders from Minnesota juvenile justice institutions
back into their communities. It investigates the following question: What
factors impede or facilitate the "reentry" process for juvenile offenders after
release?
Minnesota Correctional Officer Survey Project: This research analyzes the
living and working conditions in adult state prisons. It also examines
correctional officers’ attitudes and beliefs about correctional policies and
practices. Amy Lerman, a political scientist in California, conducted a
similar survey of correctional officers in that state (Professor Page adapted
Ms. Lerman’s survey instrument for the Minnesota study). Based on our
respective research, Ms. Lerman and Prof. Page will compare the
experiences and dispositions of correctional officers in California and
Minnesota.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
The 'Toughest Beat': Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers' Union in
California. 2011. New York: Oxford University Press.
“A Game You Can’t Win - A Culture Review,” with Ross Macmillan. 2009.
Contexts 8(3):70-72.
"Manufacturing Affinity: The Fortification and Expression of Ties between
Prison Officers and Crime Victims." 2008. Journal of Contemporary
Ethnography 37(6):745-777.
• 2010 American Sociological Association, Labor and Labor
Movements Section, Best Article Award
“Mr. Blue and the Fatal Circle: A Tribute to Edward Bunker.” 2005. The
Chronicle of Higher Education Review 52(3, September):B19.
"Eliminating the Enemy: The Import of Denying Prisoners Access to Higher
Education in Clinton's America." 2004. Punishment and Society 6(4):357-3
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Lisa Sun-Hee Park
Professor
Ph.D. 1998 Northwestern University
Room 1046 Social Sciences
(612) 624-8563
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Immigration and Welfare Policy; Immigrant Health Care; Race, Class, and
Gender; Asian American Studies; Environmental Justice; Urban Theory and
Methods.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Prof. Park’s interdisciplinary research focuses on immigrants and how their
experiences coincide and conflict with larger national ideologies and
histories. Her work explores how immigration politics functions within the
context of neoliberalism to endorse the retrenchment of public goods,
services, and space. Centering issues of gender, race, class and nation,
her publications delve into these issues from multiple vantage points
including environmental justice concerns among immigrant women workers
in Silicon Valley, social citizenship struggles among second generation
Asian Americans, health care access for low-income pregnant immigrant
women in California, and nativist environmental movements in Colorado.
Prof. Park is currently in the early stages of several new projects: 1) medical
deportations of low-income immigrants in need of long-term care, 2)
contemporary politics and application of public charge policy, and 3) a
comparative study on the interaction of immigration politics and refugee
policy. Prof. Park is also the director of the Asian American Studies
Program at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Entitled to Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of
Welfare Reform. 2011. New York University Press.
The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden.
2011. Co-authored with D. N. Pellow. New York University Press.
“Continuing Significance of the Model Minority Myth: The Second
Generation.” 2008. Social Justice 35(2):134-144.
Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs. 2005.
Stanford University Press.
Silicon Valley of Dreams: Immigrant Labor, Environmental Injustice, and the
High Tech Global Economy. 2002. Co-authored with D. N. Pellow. New York
University Press.
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David Pellow
Professor, Don Martindale Endowed Chair
Ph.D. 1998 Northwestern University
Room 1070 Social Science
(612) 624-5006
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Environmental Justice Studies; Racial and Ethnic Inequality; Social
Movements; Qualitative Research Methods; Political Ecology; Immigration.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Prof. Pellow is mainly interested in the intersections between social
inequality and environmental conflict. He continues to work on local,
national, and transnational environmental justice movements and global
policy frameworks concerning sustainability. He is working on a study of
radical environmental and animal rights movements and their experiences
with state repression.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“An Environmental Sociology for the 21st Century” with Hollie Nyseth
Forthcoming. Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 39.
“Environmental Justice, Animal Rights, and Total Liberation: From Conflict
and Distance to Points of Common Focus.” 2013. Chapter 21 in Nigel South
and Avi Brisman (Eds). Routledge International Handbook of Green
Criminology. Routledge.
“Roots of Nativist Environmentalism in America’s Eden” with Lisa Sun-Hee
Park. 2013. Chapter 12 in Joni Adamson and Kimberly N. Ruffin (Eds).
American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship: Thinking and Acting in the
Local and Global Commons. Routledge.
The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden
with Park, Lisa Sun-Hee 2011. New York University Press.
“Politics by Other Greens: The Importance of Transnational Environmental
Justice Movement Networks.” 2011. Pp. 247-265 in JoAnn Carmin and
Julian Agyeman (Eds). Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders: Local
Perspectives on Global Injustices. MIT Press.
“Environmental Justice,” with Paul Mohai and J. Timmons Roberts. 2009.
Annual Review of Environment and Resources 34:405-430.
“The Global Waste Trade and Environmental Justice Struggles.” 2009. Pp.
225-236 in Handbook on Trade and the Environment, edited by K. P.
Gallagher. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Michelle Phelps
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2013 Princeton University
Room 1035 Social Sciences
(612) 626-0863
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Crime, Law, and Deviance; Inequality; Mixed Methods
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Prof. Phelps’ research is in the sociology of punishment, focusing in
particular on the punitive turn in the U.S. Her current work focuses on the
rise of probation supervision as a criminal justice sanction and its
relationship to mass incarceration. She has also examined a variety of
criminal justice topics, including: changes in rehabilitative programming in
U.S. prisons since the 1970s, the recent decarceration trend and its
implications for inequality, and inmates' wellbeing across prison contexts.
Together with Prof. Joshua Page and Philip Goodman, she is also working
on a book tentatively titled Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over
Criminal Justice.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Inequality and Punishment: The End of Mass Incarceration?” with Devah
Pager. Forthcoming in McLean, Alair and David Grusky (Eds), Living in a
High Inequality Regime. New York: Russell Sage Press.
“The Paradox of Probation: Community Supervision in the Age of Mass
Incarceration.” 2013. Law & Policy 35(1-2): 51-80.
“The Place of Punishment: Variation in the Provision of Inmate Services
Staff Across the Punitive Turn.” 2012. Journal of Criminal Justice 40(5): 348357.
“Rehabilitation in the Punitive Era: The Gap between Rhetoric and Reality in
U.S. Prison Programs.” 2011. Law & Society Review 45(1): 33-68.
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Joel Samaha
Professor
Ph.D. 1972 Northwestern University
J.D. 1961 Northwestern University
1033 Social Sciences
(612) 624-3529
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Criminal Law and Procedure in U.S. Society; History of Criminal Justice.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Prof. Samaha has written three influential textbooks, which are used at 465
colleges in 48 states. Joel’s teaching methods challenge students’ ideas
and assumptions about criminal justice, and forces them to admit that other
ideas are worth considering and studying. Prof. Samaha’s students find their
lives and academic careers changed by this experience. A former student
claims, “Joel’s style challenges the student to take the risks necessary to
learn and achieve new understandings of the subject matter—and a great
deal about themselves.”
Prof. Liz Boyle, Department Chair, recognizes his influence and success,
claiming that Prof. Samaha has “shaped the instruction of criminal justice
courses in every state and had a profound impact on the administration of
criminal justice in Minnesota.”
Many of his former students have gone on to become professors,
academics, and criminal justice leaders. “I have never met anyone who
combined the depth of knowledge of law and history with [the] genius for
analytical reasoning and powerful oratory,” stated a former student. “Joel is
one of a kind.”
“Teaching undergraduates, to me, means making students
uncomfortable with their assumptions.… I don’t see my job as
picking the right or best assumptions for students, but as
driving home a different point: that there are several
reasonable meanings to any topic worth studying.”
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Criminal Procedure. 2010. 8th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Criminal Law. 2009. 10th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Criminal Justice. 2008. 7th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
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Joachim J. Savelsberg
Professor
Dr. rer. pol. 1982 University of Trier, FRG
Room 1144 Social Sciences
(612) 624-0273
[email protected]
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, 2010-13); related book project:
Representations of Human Rights Crimes: Justice and its Competitors in a
Globalizing World (U of California Press); supporting fellowship: Käte
Hamburger Institute for Advanced Study “Law as Culture,” Bonn, 2013-14.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Writing Human Rights History – and Social Science Encounters: Review
Essay on Aryeh Neier’s The International Human Rights Movement: A
History. 2013. Law and Social Inquiry (in press).
“Trials, Collective Memory, and Prospects of Human Rights.” In Tribunals,
edited by W. Gephart. Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann (in press).
“Formal and Substantive Rationality: Tensions in International Criminal
Law.” In Law as Culture: Max Weber’s Comparative Sociology of Law,
edited by W. Gephart. Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann (in press).
“Crime, Law, Deviance.” 2013. Pp. 129-138 In: The Handbook of Sociology
and Human Rights, edited by D. Brunsma et al. Boulder, CO: Paradigm.
“Law and Society,” with Lara Cleveland. 2013. Oxford Bibliography Online:
Sociology, edited by J. Manza. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
“Social & Intellectual Contexts of Criminology,” with S. Flood. 2012. Oxford
Bibliography Online: Criminology, edited by R. Rosenfeld. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
American Memories: Atrocities and the Law with R. King. 2011. (ASA Rose
Monograph Series.) New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Crime and Human Rights: Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities. 2010.
London: Sage.
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Rachel Schurman
Professor
Ph.D. 1993 University of Wisconsin, Madison
Room 1078 Social Sciences
(612) 624-1039
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Agri-food Studies, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Global Political
Economy, Development/Post-Development Studies.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
My current project, “Science for the Poor: Foundations, Firms and the New
Green Revolution for Africa,” focuses on efforts being made by
philanthropic, corporate, and other actors to address chronic hunger and low
agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. I am interested in the
contours of this new agricultural humanitarianism in terms of its central
actors and discourses, its visions of agricultural change, and the new
knowledge networks, public-private partnerships, and North and South
collaborations it is generating. My last book analyzed organized social
activism against agricultural biotechnology and explored how the contending
“life worlds” of anti-biotech activists and the biotechnology industry shaped
the development and deployment of genetically modified organisms at a
global scale.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists Vs. Agribusiness in the Struggle
Over Biotechnology with and William A. Munro. 2010. Minneapolis, MN:
University of Minnesota Press.
"Targeting Capital: A Cultural Economy Approach to Understanding the
Efficacy of Two Anti-Genetic Engineering Movements," with William A.
Munro 2009. American Journal of Sociology 115(1):155–202.
"Sustaining Outrage: Motivating
Movement,” with William A. Munro.
Food: Producers, Consumers, and
System, edited by W. Wright and G.
State University Press.
Sensibilities in the U.S. Anti-GE
2007. Pp. 145-176 in The Fight Over
Activists Challenge the Global Food
Middendorf. University Park, PA: Penn
"Ideas, Thinkers, and Social Networks: The Process of Grievance
Construction in the Anti-Genetic Engineering Movement," with William A.
Munro. 2006. Theory and Society 35(1): 1-38.
Engineering Trouble: Biotechnology and Its Discontents (University of
California Press 2003), co-edited with D. Takahashi-Kelso.
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Teresa Toguchi Swartz
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. 2001 University of California, San Diego
Room 933 Social Sciences
(612) 626-1862
[email protected]
INTEREST AREAS:
Families; Intergenerational Relations; Social Inequality; Asian American
Studies; Gender; Foster Care and Welfare State; Transitions to Adulthood;
and Carework.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Growing Up But Not Apart: Young Adults’ Relationships with Their Parents.
This study focuses on the changing transition to adulthood and what this has
meant for intergenerational relationships among families from diverse racial,
ethnic and social class backgrounds.
Segmented Assimilation in Cultural Cross Generational Perspective: The
Incorporation Experience of Hmong Young Adults and their Parents (with
Douglas Hartmann and Pao Lee). This project explores how young adult
Hmong children of immigrants have understood and experienced their ethnic
identities and cultural heritage over the course of growing up in St. Paul,
Minnesota. Attention is focused on how ethnic identity formation is mediated
through intergenerational family relationships, aspirations for social mobility,
and experiences with racial discrimination.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Safety Nets and Scaffolds: Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood.”
2011. Journal of Marriage and Family 73: 414-429.
“Intergenerational Family Relations in Adulthood: Patterns, Variations, and
Implications in the Contemporary United States.” 2009. Annual Review of
Sociology 35:191-212.
“Welfare and Citizenship: The Effects of Governmental Assistance on Young
Adults’ Civic Participation.” 2009. The Sociological Quarterly 50:633-665.
“Family Capital and the Invisible Transfer of Privilege: Intergenerational
Support and Social Class in Early Adulthood.” 2008. New Directions for Child
and Adolescent Development 119:11-24.
Parenting for the State: An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care.
2005. New York: Routledge.
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Chris Uggen
Distinguished McKnight Professor
Ph.D. 1995 University of Wisconsin, Madison
Room 1167 Social Sciences
(612) 624-4016
[email protected]
www.chrisuggen.com
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. 2010-2014. R.W. Johnson
Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.
TheSocietyPages.org, editor and publisher, with Doug Hartmann.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
”Taste Clusters of Music and Drugs,” with Mike Vuolo and Sarah Lageson
Forthcoming in British Journal of Sociology.
“Sexual Harassment, Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power,” with
Heather McLaughlin and Amy Blackstone. 2012. American Sociological
Review 77:625-47.
“Employment and Exile: U.S. Criminal Deportations, 1908-2005,” with Ryan
King and Michael Massoglia. 2012. American Journal of Sociology
117:1786-1825.
“Dealers, Thieves, and the Common Determinants of Drug and Non-Drug
Illegal Earnings,” with Melissa Thompson. 2012. Criminology 50:1057-87.
“Out and Down: Incarceration and Psychiatric Disorders,” with Jason
Schnittker and Michael Massoglia. 2012. Journal of Health and Social
Behavior 53:448-64.
“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.
“Incarceration and Stratification,” with Sara Wakefield. 2010. Annual Review
of Sociology 36:387-406.
Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy with Jeff
Manza. 2006, 2008. New York: Oxford University Press.
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John Robert “Rob” Warren
Professor
Ph.D. 1998 University of Wisconsin, Madison
Room 1172 Social Sciences
(612) 624-2310
[email protected]
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~warre046/
INTEREST AREAS:
Social Inequality; Education; Health Disparities; Demography
CURRENT RESEARCH: (More projects are described on my web site)
Work and Family Across the Life Course (with Jim Raymo)
Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, we are modeling the
impact of work and family roles and conditions across the life course on
health, well-being, financial security, and other outcomes in late adulthood.
Integrating, Harmonizing, and Linking Data from the Current Population
Survey (with Sarah Flood) Despite the longitudinal design of the Current
Population Survey (CPS), researchers have almost exclusively analyzed
these data as though they were collected through a series of cross-sectional
surveys. With support from the National Institute for Child Health and
Human Development, we are developing integrated data, dissemination
software, and associated metadata that will make longitudinal analyses of
CPS data radically easier.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: (Links to publications are provided on my web site)
“Annual Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population in the United
States, by State: 1990 to 2010” with Robert E Warren. Forthcoming.
International Migration Review.
“Wage Penalties for Foreign Degrees Among College Educated
Immigrants” with Caren Arbeit. Forthcoming. Social Science Research.
“High-Stakes Testing and the Rise of the GED” with Andrew HalpernManners. Forthcoming. Chapter to appear in Studies of the GED Testing
Program, edited by James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries and Nicholas
Mader.
“First through Eighth Grade Retention Rates for All 50 States: A New
Method and Initial Results" with jim saliba. 2012. Educational Researcher
41:320-329.
“Panel Conditioning Effects in Longitudinal Social Science Surveys” with
Andrew Halpern-Manners. 2012 Sociological Methods & Research 41: 491534.
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Administrative Staff
Elizabeth Boyle
Joseph Gerteis
Ann Miller
Ann Meier
Becky Drasin
Teresa Swartz
Bobby Bryant
Chair
Associate Chair
Assistant to the Chair
Director of Graduate Studies
Graduate Program Associate
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising
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