Michelle S. Phelps
Assistant Professor 909 Social Sciences, 267 19th Ave S. Department of Sociology Minneapolis, MN 55455 University of Minnesota [email protected]
EDUCATION
2013 Ph.D., Sociology and Social Policy, Princeton University Dissertation: The Paradox of Probation: Understanding the Expansion of an “Alternative” to Incarceration during the Prison Boom Committee: Devah Pager, Kim Scheppele, Amy Lerman
2010 M.A., Sociology, Princeton University Exam Areas: Demography, Inequality, and Crime and Punishment (Passed with Distinction)
2005 B.A., Psychology, University of California, Berkeley (Highest Honors)
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2013- Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus) Faculty Affiliate, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota Faculty Affiliate, Robina Institute, University of Minnesota Law School
BOOKS
Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice (with Philip Goodman and Joshua Page). Under Contract with Oxford University Press.
SCHOLARLY ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
In Publication 2013 “The Paradox of Probation: Community Supervision in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” Law & Policy 35(1-2): 51-80.
2012 “The Place of Punishment: Variation in the Provision of Inmate Services Staff Across the Punitive Turn.” Journal of Criminal Justice 40(5): 348-357.
2011 “Rehabilitation in the Punitive Era: The Gap between Rhetoric and Reality in U.S. Prison Programs.” Law & Society Review 45(1): 33-68.
Forthcoming “Inequality and Punishment: The End of Mass Incarceration?” (with Devah Pager) in McLean, Alair and David Grusky (Eds), Living in a High Inequality Regime. New York: Russell Sage Press.
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Under Review “Prison as a Social Context: Residential Mobility, Social Ties, and Disorder in Prison” (with Devah Pager).
“The End of Mass Incarceration? The Social, Political, and Economic Contexts in which Prison Populations Decline” (with Devah Pager).
In Progress “Reconceptualizing the Scale of Punishment: State Variation in Mass Probation.” *Winner of the 2nd Place Award (Honorable Mention) for the American Society of Criminology Division on Corrections and Sentencing’s Student Paper Award
“From Managing Risk to Reforming Punishment: The Development of Mass Probation in Michigan.”
OTHER WRITING
“Book Review: The Perils of Federalism: Race, Poverty, and the Politics of Crime Control, by Lisa Miller.” Punishment and Society 15(3): 323-325.
“The Paradox of Probation: Understanding Probation Expansion during the Prison Boom.” March 6, 2013. Guest blog post for the Offender Supervision in Europe (OSE) Network, a working group of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST).
“The Dangerous Trade-Off between Education and Incarceration.” June 2, 2011. Guest blog post on Sociological Images.
AWARDS, HONORS & FELLOWSHIPS
2012 2nd Place Award (Honorable Mention), Student Paper Award, Division on Corrections and Sentencing, American Society of Criminology 2010 Graduate Student Workshop Invitation and Travel Award, Law and Society Association 2010 Distinction on Qualifying Exams, Department of Sociology, Princeton University 2010-2013 Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation 2008 Summer Fellowship, Arthur Liman Public Interest Program, Yale Law School 2008-2010 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education 2005 Highest Honors, University of California, Berkeley
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“The Paradox of Probation—Understanding the Expansion of an Alternative to Incarceration during the Prison Boom” Opening Plenary, Offender Supervision in Europe (OSE) Network Launch Conference, Liverpool, April 2013 Seminar Series, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow, April 2013
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Spring Festival (organized by the Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group), University of Edinburgh School of Law, Centre for Law and Society, April 2013
“Inequality and Punishment: A Turning Point for Mass Incarceration?” (with Devah Pager) Festschrift for Robert Hauser Conference, Stanford University, Nov. 2011 Neil A. Wiener Research Speaker Series, Vera Institute of Justice, New York, NY, Oct. 2011 Festschrift for Robert Hauser Conference, University of Wisconsin, May 2011
“The Prison as a Socializing Institution” (with Devah Pager) The New Inequalities: Race, Crime, and the Life Course in the Era of Hyper-Incarceration Mini Conference, University of Minnesota, Life Course Center, Feb. 2010
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2013 “Reconceptualizing the Scale of Punishment: State Variation in Mass Probation.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, August 2013.
“From Managing Risk to Reforming Punishment: The Development of Mass Probation in Michigan.” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, June 2013
2012 “Understanding a Liminal Institution: The Development of Mass Probation in Michigan.” Midwest Law and Society Retreat, University of Wisconsin Law School, Institute for Legal Studies, Sept. 2012.
“Inequality and Punishment: A Turning Point for Mass Incarceration?” (with Devah Pager). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, August 2012.
“Mass Probation and the Punitive Turn.” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, June 2012.
“Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle over Punishment” (with Phillip Goodman and Joshua Page). Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, June 2012.
2011 “Regional and State-Level Variations in the Transformation of Rehabilitation in U.S. Prisons.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Nov. 2011.
“Mass Incarceration and (Mass) Probation: Two Sides of Punishment or Different Strategies of State Control?” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, August 2011.
“The Other Face of Punishment: Probation and the Punitive Turn.” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, June 2011.
“Mass Incarceration and (Mass) Probation: A Policy Feedback Example or Two Faces of State Control?” Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 2011.
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2010 “Prison as a Social Context: Inmate Trajectories and their Facility Environments over Time” (with Devah Pager). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2010.
“Regional and State-Level Variations in the Transformation of Rehabilitation in U.S. Prisons.” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2010.
2009 “The Decline of Prisoner Rehabilitation: Rhetoric or Reality? Inmate Services in U.S. State Prisons from 1974-2005.” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 2009.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota Fall 2013 Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System
Assistant in Instruction, Department of Sociology, Princeton University Fall 2008 The Sociological Perspective (Professors Duneier, Pager, and Centeno) Spring 2008 Sociology of Law (Professor Scheppele)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008-2009 Research Consultant, Correctional Association of New York, New York, NY 2008-2009 Prison Monitor, Correctional Association of New York, New York, NY 2005-2007 Volunteer Instructor, Fortune Society G.E.D. Program, New York, NY 2005-2007 Development Associate, Center for Court Innovation, New York, NY 2003-2005 Research Associate, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, Oakland, CA 2003-2004 Volunteer Tutor, San Quentin State Prison Education Program, San Quentin, CA
SERVICE & ACTIVITIES
Internal Service 2009-2010 Sociology Department Representative, Graduate Student Government 2008-2009 Co-Chair, Student Events Group, Office of Population Research
External Service Conference Panel Organizer (O), Chair (C), and/or Discussant (D) 2013 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (C) 2012 Law & Society Association Annual Meeting (O&C) 2011 American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting (C) 2011 Law & Society Association Annual Meeting (O&C) 2011 Population Association of America Annual Meeting (D)
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Occasional Reviewer American Journal of Sociology, Law & Society Review, Punishment & Society, Law & Policy, Ethnography, Social Psychology Quarterly
University Affiliations 2013- Faculty Affiliate, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota 2013- Faculty Affiliate, Robina Institute, University of Minnesota Law School 2011-2013 Visiting Student Affiliate, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan 2007-2013 Graduate Associate, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University 2007-2013 Graduate Student, Office of Population Research, Princeton University
Professional Memberships American Sociological Association Law & Society Association American Society of Criminology Population Association of America
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