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CURRENT GRADUATE ADVISEES

Sarah Shannon (2013 Ph.D. Advisor, University of Georgia, Assistant Professor) Dissertation: Does the Right Hand Know What the Left Hand is Doing? General Assistance Welfare, Crime, and Punishment Areas: Law, Crime and Deviance, especially the intersections between punishment, neighborhoods, and public welfare programs.

Heather McLaughlin (2013 Ph.D. Advisor, Oklahoma State U., Assistant Professor) Dissertation: Playing Like a Boy: Gender, High School Sport Participation, and Early Career Success Areas: Gender and Sexuality, Youth and Adolescence, Law, Sexual Harassment and Workplace Inequality, Family, Life Course, Sport and Popular Culture

Jessica Molina (Ph.D. Advisor) Dissertation: TBD Areas: Criminology, Sociology of Law, Violence, Race and Ethnicity

Sarah Lageson (Ph.D. Advisor) Dissertation: Crime News in a Virtual World Areas: Media, Culture, and Music, Crime and Deviance, Incarceration and Prisoner Reentry

Suzy Maves McElrath (Ph.D. Co-Advisor) Dissertation: TBD Areas: Criminology, Law, Knowledge, Transitional Justice, Genocide, Human Rights, Gender

FORMER GRADUATE ADVISEES (BY YEAR)

Jesse Wozniak (2012 Ph.D. Advisor, West Virginia U., Assistant Professor) Dissertation: Iraq and the Centrality of Policing to State Formation Areas: Critical Criminology, Political Sociology, Policing, Social Control, Social Movements, Marxist Theory

 

Shelly Schaefer (2011 Ph.D. Co-Advisor, Hamline U., Assistant Professor) Dissertation: Blurring the Lines: Blended Sentencing and the Juvenile Justice System Areas: Juvenile Justice, Punishment, Sentencing

 

Julie Barrows (2010 Ph.D. Advisor, Federal Agent) Dissertation: Formation, Network Structure, and Effectiveness of Multi-agency Gang Task Forces. Areas: Criminal Justice, Gangs, Social Networks

Mike Vuolo (2009 Ph.D. Advisor, Purdue U., Assistant Professor) Dissertation: Legal Context and Youth Drug Use: A Multilevel Analysis of the European Union Areas: Criminology, Sociology of Law, Statistics and Quantitative Methodology

Heather Hlavka (2008 Ph.D. Co-Advisor, Marquette U., Assistant Professor) Dissertation: When Disclosure Becomes Discourse: Children’s Meaning Making of Sexual Abuse Areas: Crime, Law, and Deviance, Gender and Sexuality, Mental Health, Qualitative Methods

Sara Wakefield (2007 Ph.D. Advisor, U. of California-Irvine, Assistant Professor) Dissertation: The Consequences of Incarceration for Parents and Children Areas: Crime, Law, and Deviance, Life Course Studies, Stratification

Bamidele (Andrew) Odubote (2006 Ph.D. Advisor, Bethel U., Assistant Professor) Dissertation: Race, Parenting Style, and Delinquency: A Comparative Study of European-American, African American and Nigerian Families Areas: Criminology, Family, Race and Ethnicity

Darren Wheelock (2006 Ph.D. Co-Advisor, Marquette U., Assistant Professor) Dissertation: Felon Jury Exclusion: Racial Threat and Racial Inequality in United States Criminal Courts Areas: Criminology, Punishment, Race and Ethnicity

Michael Massoglia (2006 Ph.D. Advisor, University of Wisconsin, Assistant Professor) Dissertation: Health Consequences of Crime and Punishment Areas: Criminology, Life course, Mental Health, Statistics and Methods

Jeremy Staff (2004 Ph.D. Co-Advisor, Pennsylvania State U., Associate Professor) Dissertation: Precocious Maturity and the Process of Occupational Attainment Areas: Life course, Criminology, Work and Occupations

Melissa Thompson (2003 Ph.D. Co-Advisor, Portland State U., Associate Professor) Dissertation: Expectations of Madness: Race, Gender, and Mental Health Evaluations Areas: Criminology, Gender, Mental Illness, Sociology of Law

Amy Blackstone (2003 Ph.D. Co-Investigator, U. of Maine, Associate Professor) Dissertation: Racing for the Cure and Taking Back the Night: The Social Construction of Gender, Politics, and Public Participation in Women's Activist and Volunteer Work Areas: Gender, Movements, Methods, Life Course, Law

 

COMMITTEES

• Heather McLaughlin (Ph.D. Advisor), Asst. Prof., Oklahoma State University
• Jesse Wozniak (2012 Ph.D. Advisor), Asst. Prof., West Virginia University
• Shelly Schaefer (2011 Ph.D. Advisor), Asst. Prof., Hamline University
• Julie Barrows (2010 Ph.D. Advisor), Federal Agent
• Michael Vuolo (2009 Ph.D. Advisor), Asst. Prof., Purdue University
• Pao Lee (2009, Ph.D. committee), Asst. Prof., U. of Wisconsin-River Falls
• Heather Hlavka (2008 Ph.D. Co-Advisor), Asst. Prof., Marquette University
• Sara Wakefield (2007 Ph.D. Advisor), Asst. Prof., University of California-Irvine
• Jennifer C. Lee (2007 Ph.D. committee), Asst. Prof., Indiana University
• Andrew Odubote (2006 Ph.D. Advisor), Asst. Prof., Bethel University
• Darren Wheelock (2006 Ph.D. Co-Advisor), Asst. Prof., Marquette University
• Kristin Carbone-Lopez (2006 Ph.D. committee), Asst. Prof., University of Missouri-St. Louis
• Michael Massoglia (2005 Ph.D. Advisor), Asst. Prof., University of Wisconsin
• Jeremy Staff (2004 Ph.D. Co-Advisor), Associate Prof., Pennsylvania State University
• Melissa Thompson (2003 Ph.D. Co-Advisor), Associate Prof., Portland State University
• Amy Blackstone (2003 Ph.D. Co-Investigator), Associate Prof., University of Maine
• Deborah Eckberg (2001 Ph.D. committee), Asst. Prof., Metropolitan State University
• Ann Beutel (1997 Ph.D. committee), Associate Prof., University of Oklahoma
• Sarah Shannon (Ph.D. Advisor)
• Jessica Molina (Ph.D. Advisor)
• Sarah Lageson (Ph.D. Advisor)
• Suzy Maves McElrath (Ph.D. Co-Advisor)
• Sarah Walker (initial Ph.D. Advisor)
• Rob Stewart (initial Ph.D. Co-Advisor)
• Jeanette Hussemann (Ph.D. committee)
• Andrew Johnson (Ph.D. committee)
• Gina Allen (Ph.D. committee)
• Hollie Nyseth Brehm (Ph.D. committee)
• Kia Heise (Ph.D. committee)
• Mayumi Uno (Ph.D. committee)
• Naomi Isaacson (Ph.D. committee)
• Cindy Crimmins (Ph.D. committee)
• Virginia Lane (Ph.D. committee)
• Kenneth Wu Hopkins (Ph.D. committee)
• Lisette Haro (Initial Ph.D. Advisor)
• Donna Cernohous (M.A. Thesis committee)
• Kelly Shelton (M.A. Thesis committee)
• Glenna Siekert (M.A. Thesis committee)
• Jim Zaffiro (M.A. Thesis committee)
• Valentine Namakula (Advisor to Humphrey International Fellow)
• Leon Dundas (Advisor to Humphrey International Fellow)
• Rebecca Colwell (Geography, M.S. Thesis committee)
• Kristin Gallagher (Industrial Relations, M.A. Thesis committee)
• Amir Ijaz (Industrial Relations, M.A. Thesis committee)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BY AND WITH GRADUATE STUDENTS

• Michael Vuolo, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah Lageson. “Taste Clusters of Music and Drugs: Evidence from Three Analytic Levels.” Conditionally accepted at British Journal of Sociology.
• Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2012. “Sexual Harassment, Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power." American Sociological Review 77:625-47.
• Jason N. Houle, Jeremy Staff, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2011. “The Psychological Impact of Sexual Harassment during the Early Occupational Career.” Society and Mental Health 1:89-105.
• Sarah Shannon and Christopher Uggen. 2011. “Incarceration as a Political Institution in the United States.” Prepared for The New Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, edited by Kate Nash, Alan Scott, and Edwin Amenta. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. [pdf] [copyright]
• Terence P. Thornberry, Peggy C. Giordano, Christopher Uggen, Mauri Matsuda, and Ann S. Masten. 2011. “Theoretical Explanations for Offending during the Transition to Adulthood.” Forthcoming in volume on Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Offending, edited by Rolf Loeber and David Farrington. Oxford University Press.
• Christopher Uggen, Sarah Shannon, and D. Wayne Osgood. “From Daddy’s Liquor Cabinet to Home Depot: Shifts in Leisure Activity in the Transition to Adulthood.” Conditionally accepted for forthcoming volume, edited by Teresa Swartz, Doug Hartmann, and Ruben Rumbaut.
• Jason N. Houle, Jeremy Staff, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2011. “The Psychological Impact of Sexual Harassment during the Early Occupational Career.” Society and Mental Health 1:89-105.
• Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia, and Christopher Uggen. 2011. “Incarceration and the Health of the African American Community.” Du Bois Review 8:133-41. [pdf] [copyright]
• Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. 2010. “Settling Down and Aging Out: Toward an Interactionist Theory of Desistance and the Transition to Adulthood.” American Journal of Sociology 116:543-82. [pdf] [copyright]
• Sara Wakefield and Christopher Uggen. 2010. “Incarceration and Stratification.” Annual Review of Sociology 36:387-406. [pdf] [copyright]
• Amy Blackstone, Christopher Uggen, and Heather McLaughlin. 2009. “Legal Consciousness and Responses to Sexual Harassment.” Forthcoming in Law & Society Review.
• Teresa Swartz, Amy Blackstone, Christopher Uggen, and Heather McLaughlin. 2009. “Welfare and Citizenship: The Effects of Government Assistance on Voting Behavior.” Forthcoming in The Sociological Quarterly.
• Jesse Wozniak and Christopher Uggen. 2009. “Real Men Use Non-Lethals: Appeals to Masculinity in Marketing Police Weaponry." Forthcoming in Feminist Criminology. [pdf] [copyright]
• Shelly Schaefer and Christopher Uggen. 2009. “Juvenile Delinquency and Desistance.” Forthcoming in Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood, edited by Andy Furlong. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge.
• Christopher Uggen and Chika Shinohara. 2009. “Sexual Harassment Comes of Age: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japan."The Sociological Quarterly. 50:201-34. [pdf] [copyright]
• Christopher Uggen, Mischelle Van Brakle, and Heather McLaughlin. 2009. “Punishment and Social Exclusion: National Differences in Prisoner Disenfranchisement.” Pages 59-78 in Criminal Disenfranchisement in an International Perspective, edited by Alec Ewald and Brandon Rottinghaus. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Heather Hlavka and Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Does Stigmatizing Sex Offenders Drive Down Reporting Rates? Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences” Northern Kentucky Law Review 35:347-69.
• Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2008. “Social Class and Workplace Harassment During the Transition to Adulthood.” New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development 119:85-98.
• Christopher Uggen and Heather Hlavka. 2008. “No More Lame Pro-sems: Professional Development Seminars in Sociology.” Pages 191-216 in Academic Street Smarts: Informal Professionalization of Graduate Students, edited by Ira Silver and David Shulman. New York: American Sociological Association. [pdf] [copyright]
• Christopher Uggen and Sara Wakefield. 2007. “What Have We Learned from Longitudinal Studies of Adolescent Employment and Crime?” Pages 189-218 in The Long View of Crime: A Synthesis of Longitudinal Research, edited by Akiva Liberman. New York: Springer.
• Darren Wheelock and Christopher Uggen. 2007. "Race, Poverty and Punishment: The Impact of Criminal Sanctions on Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Inequality." Forthcoming in The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist, edited by David Harris and Ann Chih Lin for the National Poverty Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
• Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. 2007. “Subjective Desistance and the Transition to Adulthood.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 23:90-103. [pdf] [copyright]
• Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Melissa Thompson, 2006. “Citizenship, Democracy, and the Civic Reintegration of Criminal Offenders.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 605:281-310. [pdf] [copyright]
• Angela Behrens, Christopher Uggen, and Jeff Manza. 2006. “Felon Disenfranchisement." Pages 582-585 in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties. New York: Routledge.
• Christopher Uggen and Mike Vuolo. 2006. “Getting the Truth about Consequences.” Amici: Newsletter of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association 13:6-8.
• Christopher Uggen and Sara Wakefield. 2005. “Young Adults Reentering the Community from the Criminal Justice System: Challenges to Adulthood.” Pages 114-144 in On Your Own Without a Net: The Transition to Adulthood for Vulnerable Populations, edited by D. Wayne Osgood, E. Michael Foster, Constance Flanagan, and Gretchen R. Ruth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
• Christopher Uggen, Sara Wakefield, and Bruce Western. 2005. “Work and Family Perspectives on Reentry.” Pages 209-243 in Prisoner Reentry and Public Safety in America, edited by Jeremy Travis and Christy Visher. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Darren Wheelock. 2005. "Collateral Consequences and Racial Inequality: Felon Status Restrictions as a System of Disadvantage." Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 21:82-90.
• Christopher Uggen and Amy Blackstone. 2004. "Sexual Harassment as a Gendered Expression of Power."American Sociological Review. [abstract] [ASA release] [pdf]
• Sara Wakefield and Christopher Uggen. 2004. "The Declining Significance of Race in Federal Civil Rights Law: The Social Structure of Employment Discrimination Claims." Sociological Inquiry 74:128-57. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright info]
• Christopher Uggen and Melissa Thompson. 2003. "The Socioeconomic Determinants of Ill-Gotten Gains: Within-Person Changes in Drug Use and Illegal Earnings." American Journal of Sociology 109:146-85. [abstract] [pdf]
• Jeremy Staff and Christopher Uggen. 2003. "The Fruits of Good Work: Job Quality and Adolescent Deviance." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 40:263-90. [abstract] [pdf]
• Jeremy Staff, Jeylan Mortimer, and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Work and Leisure in Adolescence.” Forthcoming in The Handbook of Adolescent Psychology, edited by Richard Lerner and Laurence Steinberg. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
• Christopher Uggen and Michael Massoglia. 2003. “Desistance from Crime as a Turning Point in the Life Course.” Forthcoming in Handbook of the Life Course, edited by Jeylan T. Mortimer and Michael Shanahan. New York: Plenum Publishing. [abstract]
• Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. 2002. “Life Course Theories.” Pages 1008-12 in Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. [abstract]
• Christopher Uggen and Jeremy Staff. 2001. “Work as a Turning Point for Criminal Offenders.” Corrections Management Quarterly 5:1-16. [Reprinted 2003 in Crime and Employment: Critical Issues in Crime Reduction for Corrections, edited by Jessie L. Krienert and Mark S. Fleisher. Rowman and Littlefield]. [abstract] [pdf]
• Candace Kruttschnitt, Christopher Uggen, and Kelly Shelton. 2000. “Predictors of Desistance among Sex Offenders: The Interaction of Formal and Informal Social Controls.” Justice Quarterly 17:61-87. [abstract] [Excerpted in Criminological Highlights 3, #3]
• Christopher Uggen and Melissa Thompson. 2001. “Prevention: Juveniles as Potential Offenders.” Pages 1152-55 in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. New York: MacMillan. [abstract]
• Christopher Uggen and Melissa Thompson. 1999. National Institute of Justice Final Report: Careers in Crime and Substance Use.

PUBLICATIONS BY AND WITH UNDERGRADUATES

• Angela Behrens, Christopher Uggen, and Jeff Manza. 2006. “Felon Disenfranchisement." Forthcoming in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties. New York: Routledge.
• Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Angela Behrens. 2003. “Felon Voting Rights and the Disenfranchisement of African Americans.” Forthcoming in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 5:48-57. [pdf]
• Angela Behrens, Christopher Uggen, and Jeff Manza. 2003. “Ballot Manipulation and the ‘Menace of Negro Domination’: Racial Threat and Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2002.” American Journal of Sociology 109:559-605. [abstract] [pdf]
• Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Angela Behrens. 2004. “Less than the Average Citizen: Stigma, Role Transition, and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons.” Pages 258-290 in After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to Offender Reintegration, edited by Shadd Maruna and Russ Immarigeon. Cullompton, Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. [abstract] [pdf]
• Jessica Huiras, Christopher Uggen, and Barbara McMorris. 2000. “Career Jobs, Survival Jobs, and Employee Deviance: A Social Investment Model of Workplace Misconduct.” The Sociological Quarterly 41:245-63. [abstract] [pdf]
• Christopher Uggen and Jennifer Janikula. 1999. "Volunteerism and Arrest in the Transition to Adulthood." Social Forces 78:331-62. [abstract] [pdf]

OTHER GRADUATE SUPERVISION AND INDEPENDENT WORK

• Sarah Lageson, Sociology, 2012
• Sarah Shannon, Social Work, 2006
• Shelly Schaefer, Sociology, 2005
• Sarah Walker, Political Science, 2005
• Valentine Namakula, Advisor to Humphrey International Fellow, 2004-2005
• Rebecca Colwell, Spring 2004
• Leon Dundas, Advisor to Humphrey International Fellow, 2003-2004
• Sara Wakefield, Fall 2003
• Darren Wheelock, Summer 2003
• Amy Blackstone, Summer 2002
• Julie Barrows, Summer 2001
• Jeremy Staff, Summer 2000
• Lori Schabo-Grabowski, Winter 1999 and Fall 1998
• Andrew Odubote, Spring and Summer 1998
• Anne Hoffman, Winter 1997
• Alexandra Goulding, Winter 1996

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SUPERVISION

• Charissa Jones, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2011.
• Nate Gibbs, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2010
• Shanicia Goston and Chantel Johnson, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2009
• Lindsey Merritt, Undergraduate research opportunity project, 2009
• Janelle Rainwater and Jessica Molina, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2008
• Claudio Perez and Jessica Molina, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2007• Hayley Castro, Multicultural Summer Research Opportunities Program advisor, 2007
• Shannon Ryan, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2006
• Jessica Gonzalez, McNair fellowship faculty advisor, 2005
• Kimberly Gardner, Trumaine Lindsey, Jr., Elisabeth Wells, Heather Leyse, Independent Research 2005
• Sarah Davis, Adam Basil, Moua Xiong, Independent Research 2004
• Pamela Parnell, McNair Fellowship Faculty Advisor, 2004
• Amanda Allen, Senior project and independent research, 2004
• Sean Elder, Senior project and independent research, 2004
• Gina Kubits, Senior project and independent research, 2004
• Danielle Saracino, Senior project and independent research, 2004
• Julie Korts, Senior project and independent study, 2003-4
• Corey Boyer, Senior project and independent study, 2003-4
• Marsha Skalsky, Senior project and independent study, 2003
• Justine Jones, McNair Fellowship Faculty Advisor, 2003
• Chris Hogg, Senior project and independent study, 2003
• Angela Behrens, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Project, 2001-2 (project published in American Journal of Sociology)
• Ebony Ruhland, McNair Fellowship Faculty Advisor; Senior project, 2002-3
• Danielle Riester, Senior project and independent study, 2002
• Michelle Lopez, McNair Fellowship Faculty Advisor, 2001
• Stephanie Miller, MacArthur Honors Program Faculty Advisor, 2001
• Brian Duginske, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Project, 2001
• Les Andrist, Directed Study, 2000
• Megan Carollo, Directed Study, 2000
• Kelly Healey, Directed Study, 2000
• Eric Hedberg, Directed Study, 2000
• Keia Johnson, McNair Fellowship Faculty Advisor, 2000
• Janna Cheney, Honors Project Reader, 2000
• Ann Hewitt, Directed Study, 2000
• Martin Lloyd, Directed Study, 2000
• Shushanie Isaacson, Honors Project Advisor, 1999 (ASA Sociology of Law section undergraduate award winner)
• Mark Fredkove, Honors Project Reader, 1999
• Ryan King, Honors Project Reader, 1999
• Molly Koscianski, Directed Study (Internship), 1999
• Sara Miller, Directed Study Project, 1999
• Michael Johnson, Directed Study Project, 1999
• Michael Steiner, Directed Study Project, 1999
• Kelly Simons, Directed Study Project, 1999
• Molly Koscianski, Directed Study, 1999
• Miriam Rea, McNair Fellowship Faculty Advisor, 1999
• Sindy Lopez, McNair Fellowship Faculty Advisor, 1999
• Jessica Huiras, Senior project and Undergraduate Research Opportunity Project 1999 (project published in The Sociological Quarterly)
• Sara Peterson, Individualized Major Reader, 1998-99
• Shani Greene, McNair Fellowship Faculty Advisor, 1998
• Sara Wakefield, Research Advisor, 1998 (project published in Sociological Inquiry)
• Sara Wakefield, Honors Project Reader, 1998
• Jeremy Blackowicz, Honors Project Reader, 1998
• Greg Gentz, Honors Project Reader, 1998
• Christopher Page, Directed Study, 1997
• Bridget Cleary, Directed Study, 1997
• Jennifer Halko, Senior Project and independent study, 1997 (project published in Social Forces)
• Chikako Sato, Senior Project and independent study, 1997
• Kimberly Lemcke, Senior project and independent study, 1997
• Tina Platt, Senior project and two independent studies, 1997
• Rachel Greene, Directed Study, 1996
• Tami Lin Grimmer, Directed Study, 1996
• Humara Ali, Individualized Major Reader, 1996
• Andrea Andrews, Senior project, 1996
• Jody Matteson, Reader for SPAN Research Project, 1996
• Jennifer Holden, Reader for SPAN Research Project, 1996-8
• James Warren, Honors Thesis Committee Member, 1996
• Carolyn Murphy, Senior project and independent study, 1995-96

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