CURRICULUM VITAE Joshua Page

CURRICULUM VITAE
Joshua Page
Department of Sociology
909 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
612-624-9333
[email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, January 2007Present.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, Sociology, May 2007
M.A. University of California at Berkeley, Sociology, May 2001
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Law, Crime, and Punishment; Labor and Labor Movements; Organizations and Politics;
Qualitative Research Methods; and Social Theory
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Goodman, Phil, Joshua Page and Michelle Phelps. Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle
Over Criminal Justice. Under contract with Oxford University Press.
Page, Joshua. 2011. The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in
California. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Co-Winner, 2012 Law and Society Association’s Herbert Jacob Book Prize
Honorable Mention, 2013 American Sociology Association’s Sociology of Law
Section Outstanding Book Prize
Articles in Refereed Journals
Lerman, Amy and Joshua Page. 2012. “The State of the Job: An Embedded Work Role
Perspective on Prison Officer Attitudes.” Punishment & Society 14(5): 503-529.
Page, Joshua. 2012. “Why Punishment is Purple,” The Society Pages. Published September 26,
2012. Available at http://thesocietypages.org/papers/purple-punishment. Peer-reviewed.
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Page, Joshua. 2012. “Politically Realistic Unionism: The California Prison Officers
Association and the Struggle over the ‘Public Good’.” Working USA: The Journal of
Labor and Society, 15: 377-396.
Hussemann, Jeannette and Joshua Page. 2011. “Gender Diversity and the Prospects for
Progressive Prison Reform.” Women and Criminal Justice, 21(4): 267-289.
Page, Joshua. 2011. “Fear of Change: Prison Officer Unions and the Perpetuation of the Penal
Status Quo.” Criminology and Public Policy, 10(3): 733-770.
Page, Joshua. 2008. “Manufacturing Affinity: The Fortification and Expression of Ties between
Prison Officers and Crime Victims.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 37(6): 745777.
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Co-Winner, 2010 Distinguished Scholarly Article Award, American Sociological
Association Section on Labor and Labor Movements
Page, Joshua. 2004. “Eliminating the Enemy: The Import of Denying Prisoners Access to Higher
Education in Clinton’s America.” Punishment and Society, 6(4): 357-378.
Book Chapters and other Scholarly Publications
Page, Joshua and Joe Soss. Forthcoming. “‘It Can’t Be a Lie’: The Wire as Breaching
Experiment.” Everything is Connected: The Politics of HBO’s “The Wire.” Edited by
Shirin Deylami and Jonathan Havercroft. New York: Routledge. Invited.
Page, Joshua. 2013. “Realigning the Toughest Beat: Why the California Officers Union Changed
its Tune.” ACJS Today 38(3): 25-29.
Page, Joshua. 2013. “The Shape of Re-Entry: Probation and the Penal Field in Minnesota.” Guest
blog post for the Offender Supervision in Europe (OSE) Network, a working group of the
European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST). Available:
http://www.offendersupervision.eu/blog-post/the-shape-of-re-entry-probation-and-thepenal-field-in-minnesota
Page, Joshua. 2012. “Punishment and the Penal Field.” The Handbook on Punishment
and Society. Edited by Jonathan Simon and Richard Sparks. New York: Sage.
Page, Joshua and Sarah Whetstone. 2013. “Beyond the Trial: The Disproportionate
Imprisonment of African Americans.” Teaching Race in the 21st Century. Edited by
Kristin Haltinner. New York: Springer.
Page, Joshua. Forthcoming. “Review of Outsourcing Justice: The Role of Nonprofit Caseworkers
in Pretrial Release Programs.” Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews.
Page, Joshua and Shelly Shaefer. 2011. “From Risks to Assets: Toward a Strengths-Based
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Approach to Juvenile Justice Reentry.” CURA Reporter, 41(1): 434-441.
Macmillan, Ross and Joshua Page. 2009. “A Game You Can’t Win—A Culture Review.”
Contexts, 8 (3): 70-72.
Page, Joshua. 2009. “Review of Pockets of Crime: Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the
Criminal Point of View.” Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 38(1): 41-42.
Page, Joshua. 2008. “Review of The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration
in America.” Criminal Justice Review, 33: 256-258.
Austin, James, Todd Clear, Troy Duster, David Greenberg, John Irwin, Candace McCoy, Alan
Mobley, Barbara Owen, and Joshua Page. 2007. Unlocking America: Why and How to
Reduce America’s Prison Population, Washington, DC: JFA Institute.
Page, Joshua. 2005. “Mr. Blue and the Fatal Circle: A Tribute to Edward Bunker,” The
Chronicle of Higher Education Review, 52:(3), B19.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW AND WORKS IN PROGRESS
Goodman, Phil, Joshua Page and Michelle Phelps. “The Long Struggle: An Agonistic
Perspective on Penal Development.” Under review at Theoretical Criminology.
Lerman, Amy and Joshua Page. “Does the Front Line Reflect the Party Line? Politicization,
Partisanship, and Prison Officers’ Perspectives Toward Incarceration.” Revise and
Resubmit at Social Problems.
Dabney, Dean, Page, Joshua, and Volkan Topalli. “The Past in the Present: Bail and the Tinting
of Punishment.” Under review at Law and Social Inquiry.
Page, Joshua and Sarah Shannon. “Bureaucrats Behind Bars: How Work Environment and Job
Stress Affect Prison Officers’ Attitudes Toward Prisoners.” Under review at Social
Service Review.
Page, Joshua. On the Edge: Juvenile Ex-Prisoners and the Struggle to Make It in Urban
America. Book manuscript.
Page, Joshua and Tersa Toguchi Schwartz. “Family Strain and the Desire to be ‘Good Men’
among Former Juvenile Offenders.”
EDITORIALS
Page, Joshua. “On Sentencing Commissions and Reform, Some Final Thoughts,” KALW (NPR
affiliate), “The Informant: Cops, Courts and Communities in the Bay Area,” July 14,
2011.
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Page, Joshua. “Sentencing Reform in the Golden State, Part 2,” KALW (NPR affiliate), “The
Informant: Cops, Courts and Communities in the Bay Area,” July 12, 2011.
Page, Joshua. “Sentencing Reform in the Golden State, Part 1,” KALW (NPR affiliate), “The
Informant: Cops, Courts and Communities in the Bay Area,” July 5, 2011.
Page, Joshua. “Crime Victims United of California: A Powerful Voice in State Politics,” Los
Angeles Times, June 5, 2001.
Page, Joshua. “Guarding Against Reform,” Zócalo Public Square, May 5, 2011. (Reprinted in
California Progress Report, May 6, 2011).
Page, Joshua. “Prison Officers, Crime Victims, and the Prospects of Sentencing Reform,”
California Progress Report, March 22, 2011.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2013
Honorable Mention, 2013 American Sociology Association’s Sociology of Law
Section Outstanding Book Prize
2013
Sabbatical Leave with Supplement Authorization, Academic Year 2013/14,
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota.
2012
Co-winner, Law and Society Association’s Herbert Jacob Book Prize
2012
Outstanding Service Award, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
2011
The University of Minnesota Department of Sociology Cooperman Award for
summer support ($5,000)
2011
Single Semester Leave, Fall 2011, College of Liberal Arts, University of
Minnesota
2010
Co-winner, Distinguished Scholarly Article Award, American Sociological
Association Section on Labor and Labor Movements
2010
American Sociological Association Community Action Research Initiative
($3,000)
2008-2009
Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (“Faculty Interactive Research Program”),
University of Minnesota ($35,471)
2007
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship, Graduate School, University
of Minnesota ($30,348)
INVITED TALKS
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Page, Joshua. 2013. “What’s in a Name? Prison Officers and the Struggle for Recognition.”
Prisons Research Center, Cambridge University. April 29.
Page, Joshua. 2013. “The Penal Field and Its Implications for Probation Policy and Practice.”
Offender Supervision in Europe. Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, England. April
26.
Page, Joshua 2013. “On the Edge: Juvenile Former Prisoners and the Struggle to Make It in
Urban America.” European Society of Criminology, Working Group on Offender
Supervision. Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, England. April 25.
Page, Joshua. 2013. “Probation and the Penal Field,” Joint Seminar of The Department of
Sociology and The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of
Glasgow, April 23.
Page, Joshua. 2013. “On the Edge: Juvenile Former Prisoners and the Struggle to Make It in
Urban America.” Law School Colloquium, University of Edinburgh. April 22.
Page, Joshua. 2012. “Getting Denied: Juvenile Reentry and the Criminal Record.” 2012
Minnesota Justice Forum on Collateral Consequences of Criminal Records. Sponsored
by the Robina Institute and Council on Crime and Justice. October 19, 2012.
Page, Joshua. 2012. “Moving Toward Minnesota: The Future of American Imprisonment?”
Graduate Colloquium Series. Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University—
April 12.
Page, Joshua. 2011. “What's Possible? A Union's Less Obvious Effects on Criminal
Punishment.” Sociology Workshop Series. Department of Sociology, University of
Toronto, Sociology—St. George. November 2.
Page, Joshua. 2011. “Moving Toward Minnesota: The Future of American Imprisonment?” First
Annual Sociology and Criminology Society's Lecture. University of Toronto—
Mississauga. November 1.
Page, Joshua. 2011. “The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in
California.” The Ann Lucas Series in Law & Justice. San Jose State University. October
25.
Page, Joshua. 2011. “Prison Officer Unions and the Politics of Victimhood.” 40 Years After the
Attica Uprising: Looking Back, Moving Forward. University at Buffalo Law School.
September 12-13.
Page, Joshua. 2010. “David Garland and the Struggle over Penality.” A Special Sociology
Workshop on the Work of David Garland: On Punishment, Culture, and Social Theory.
University of California, Berkeley. November 16.
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Page, Joshua and Kia Heise. 2009. “The New Octopus: Newspapers Take on the ‘Powerful
Prison Guards Union’.” Sociology Workshop Series. Department of Sociology, University
of Minnesota. December 8.
Page, Joshua. 2009. “The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in
California.” Crime and Punishment Workshop. Princeton University. December 3.
Page, Joshua. 2008. “Unlocking America: Why and How to Reduce America’s Prison
Population.” National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyer’s 7th Annual State
Legislative Network Conference. Milwaukee, WI. July 31-August 1.
Page, Joshua and Jeannette Hussemann. 2008. “The Minnesota Prison Officers Survey Project:
A Progress Report.” Sociology Workshop Series. Department of Sociology, University of
Minnesota. April 1.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Page, Joshua. 2013. “Punishment is Purple.” American Society of Criminology. Atlanta, GA.
November 20-24.
Page, Joshua. 2013. “‘It Can’t Be a Lie’: The Wire as Breaching Experiment.” American
Sociological Association, New York, NY. August 10-13.
Page, Joshua. 2013. “Alternative in Action? A Case Study of Juvenile Justice Reform.” Law &
Society Association. Boston, MA. May 31-June 2.
Page, Joshua. 2012. “Punishment and the Penal Field.” American Society of Criminology.
Chicago, IL. November 14 -17.
Page, Joshua. 2012. “The Toughest Beat, Author-Meets-Readers.” Law & Society Association.
Honolulu, HI. June 5-8.
Purser, Gretchen and Joshua Page. “The Business of Bail and the Politics of Punishment.” Law
& Society Association. Honolulu, HI. June 5-8.
Goodman, Phil, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps. “Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle
over Punishment.” Law & Society Association. Honolulu, HI. June 5-8.
Page, Joshua, Teresa Swartz, and Joy Williams. 2011. “Family Strain and the Desire to be ‘Good
Men’ among Former Juvenile Offenders.” American Society of Criminology.
Washington, DC. November 16-19.
Page, Joshua. 2011. “A Sticky Path: Mass Imprisonment, Policy Feedback, and the Prison
Officers Union in California” (Regular Session). American Sociological Association. Las
Vegas, NV. August 19-23.
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Shannon, Sarah and Joshua Page. 2011. “Bureaucrats Behind Bars: How Work Environment and
Job Stress Affect Prison Officers’ Attitudes Toward Prisoners” (Roundtable Session).
American Sociological Association. Las Vegas, NV. August 19-23.
Page, Joshua. 2011. “An American Exception: The Bail Bond Industry and Contemporary
Punishment.” Law & Society Association. San Francisco, CA. June 2-5.
Page, Joshua. 2010. “Interest Groups and Contemporary Criminal Punishment.” American
Society of Criminology. San Francisco, CA. November 17-20.
Page, Joshua. 2010. “Reflections on John Irwin and Phenomenological Criminology,” American
Society of Criminology. San Francisco, CA. November 17-20.
Shannon, Sarah and Joshua Page. 2010. “Prison Officer Job Satisfaction and Attitudes Toward
Rehabilitation.” American Society of Criminology. San Francisco, CA. November 17-20.
Page, Joshua. 2010. “What is the Penal Field? Lessons from California.” Law & Society
Association. Chicago, IL. May 27-29.
Hussemann, Jeannette and Joshua Page. 2009. “The Not-so-New Penology: An Empirical
Analysis of Prison Officers.” American Society of Criminology. Philadelphia, PA.
November 4-7.
Hussemann, Jeannette and Joshua Page. 2008. “Maintaining Perspective in a Gendered Society:
Female Prison Officers and the Purpose of Imprisonment.” American Society of
Criminology. St. Louis, MO. November 12-15.
Page, Joshua. 2007. “Organized Vengeance: Crime Victims’ Rights in California,” American
Society of Criminology. Atlanta, GA, November 14-17.
Page, Joshua. 2005. “Sentimental Movement: Prison Officers and Crime Victims in Action,”
Putting Pierre Bourdieu to Work II. University of California, Berkeley, May 12-13.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
-University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology
Spring 2013
Contemporary Social Theory and Public Policy (Graduate Seminar)
Fall 2012
Sociology of Punishment and Corrections
Spring 2012
Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System
Juvenile Justice and Law
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Spring 2011
Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System
Sociology of Punishment and Corrections
Fall 2010
Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System
Spring 2010
Sociology of Punishment and Corrections
Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System
Fall 2009
Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System
Sociology of Punishment Graduate Seminar
Spring 2009
Contemporary Social Theory Graduate Seminar (co-taught with Michael Goldman)
Juvenile Justice and Law
Fall 2008
Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System
Sociology of Punishment and Corrections
Spring 2008
Policing American Society
Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System
Fall 2007
Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System
Spring 2007
Sociology of Punishment and Corrections
PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE
Editorial Board, Law & Society Review, Fall 2013-present.
Editorial Board, Punishment & Society, Summer 2013-present.
Advocacy and Public Policy Consultant, Council on Crime and Justice, Summer 2011Present.
Discussant, “Late-Modern Prison Ethnography: Punishment and Penal Practice.” Regular
Session, American Society of Criminology. Atlanta, GA. November 20-24, 2013.
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Organizer, “Alternative Penal Strategies in the Era of Mass Incarceration.” Regular Session, Law
& Society Association, Boston, MA. May 31-June 2, 2013.
Presenter, “Critiquing Presentence Investigations,” 1st District Public Defender Quarterly
Training.” Dakota County, Minnesota, May 10, 2013.
Reviewer, 2013 Law & Society Dissertation Award, Law & Society Association.
Discussant, “Penal Disenfranchisement,” Collateral Sanctions on Ex-Offenders, Robina Institute
of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, University of Minnesota Law School, March 2,
2013.
Moderator, Conservative Case for Prison Reform (Sponsored by Right on Crime and Second
Chance Coalition), January 14, 2013.
Discussant, “Race in Juvenile Justice and Sentencing Policy,” 2012 Law and Inequality
Symposium (“Children are Different: Culpability and Mandatory Sentencing of Juveniles
under Miller v. Alabama & Jackson v. Hobbs”), University Minnesota Law School.
October 4, 2012.
Mentor, ASA Section on Labor and Labor Movements, Graduate Student Mentoring Program,
2011
Reviewer, 2011 Distinguished Scholarly Article Award, ASA Section on Labor and Labor
Movements.
Discussant, “Prison Policy Inside & Out,” Law & Society Association. San Francisco, CA. June
2-June 5, 2011.
Steering Committee Member, Juvenile Justice Coalition of Minnesota, 2007-2011.
Area Chair, The American Society of Criminology, November 2007.
Reviewer, Graduate Student Paper Competition, Crime, Law, and Deviance section,
American Sociological Association, 2007.
Moderator, The Sociology of Law roundtable, American Sociological Association,
August 11, 2007.
RECENT MEDIA
KSTP (ABC), “What’s Next for Aaron Schaffhausen,” July 15, 2013 (television interview on
prison dynamics)
Minneapolis StarTribune, “Aaron Schaffhausen, who killed his 3 daughters, faces extra prison
risks,” July 15, 2013 (quoted in article).
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Mother Jones, “Big Labor’s Lock ‘Em Up Mentality,” February 22, 2013. Interview about prison
officer unions and penal policy (quoted in article).
The Sacramento Bee, “Correctional Officers Union Stays Low-Profile for Election.” October 22,
2012. Interview about CCPOA and political action.
The Sacramento Bee, “Union Money, Personal Sorrow Join to Shape Public Policy.” April 26,
2012. Interview about penal politics in California.
Minnesota Public Radio (“The Daily Circuit”), “Educating Inmates: Is it Worth It?”
March 14, 2012. In-studio guest.
KCSB (Santa Barbara, CA), “No Alibis.” November 2, 2011. Radio interview about The
Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California.
The Associated Press, “Calif. Prison Restructuring Brings Layoff Warnings.” October 26, 2011.
Interview about Downsizing of California prison system.
The Sacramento Bee, “California Prisons Unions Make Concessions to Avert Layoffs.” October
19, 2011. Interview about CCPOA and layoffs.
The Minnesota Daily, “Minneapolis Violent Crime Down 15%.” July 28, 2011. Interview about
crime decline.
KALW News (NPR Affiliate), “Just How Powerful is California’s Prison Guards Union?” July 19,
2011. Radio interview about The Toughest Beat and CCPOA.
New York Times, “Public Unions Take on Boss to Win Big Pensions.” June 23, 2011. Interview
about public sector unions and CCPOA.
Sacramento Bee, “California Highway Patrol, Prison Officers Compete for Pay, Respect.” May
31, 2011. Interview about competition between California Highway Patrol and Prison
Officers Union, quotes from The Toughest Beat.
Los Angeles Times, “Hope for Reform of California’s Prison System?” May 24, 2011. Interview
about prison and sentencing reform in California.
Uprising Radio (KPFK), “The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers
Union in California,” April 18, 2011. Radio interview about The Toughest Beat.
Sacramento Bee, “Reading Rack,” March 27, 2011. Editorial recommendation of The Toughest
Beat.
Access Minnesota, “The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in
California,” March 16, 2011. Radio interview about The Toughest Beat and mass
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imprisonment.
Sacramento Bee, “Visit a Prison to See Costs of ‘Three Strikes,” March 3, 2011. Editorial by
Dan Morain, quotes from The Toughest Beat.
St. Paul Pioneer Press, “Dakota County Seeks a Middle Ground for Young Sex Offenders,”
November 27, 2010. Interview about juvenile justice programs.
The Minnesota Daily, “Anatomy of a Riot,” May 3, 2009. Interview about “riots” in
Dinkytown neighborhood of Minneapolis, MN.
San Francisco Chronicle, “Union Behind the Recall Pounds its Foes,” September 14, 2008.
Interview about the CCPOA and California politics.
The Minnesota Daily, “Report Suggests Prison Reforms Needed,” November 27, 2007.
Interview about sentencing reform.
Minnesota Public Radio (“Midmorning”) “Prison Reform and the Revolving Door,”
November 26, 2007. In-studio guest.
Access Minnesota (Television News Program), November 27, 2007. In-studio interview
about sentencing reform.
St. Paul Pioneer Press, “Taking on Our Teeming Prisons,” November 24, 2007.
Interview about sentencing reform.
Sacramento Bee, “Rancor Rules Prison Guard Negotiations,” September 30, 2007.
Interview about CCPOA contract negotiations.
REVIEWER FOR:
American Journal of Sociology
American Sociological Review
National Science Foundation, Law and Society, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
Contexts
Punishment & Society
Law and Social Inquiry
Journal of Black Studies
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Law & Society Review
NYU Press
Oxford University Press
Routledge Press
Sage Press
Social Problems
Theoretical Criminology
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University of California Press
Women and Criminal Justice
Ethnography
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Sociological Association
American Society of Criminology
Law and Society Association
Life Course Center, University of Minnesota
Robina Institute on Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, University of Minnesota Law School
Society for the Study of Social Problems
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