Michelle S. Phelps
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology website: www.princeton.edu/~phelps Wallace Hall, Princeton University email: [email protected] Princeton, NJ 08544 phone: (609) 751-6055
EDUCATION
2013 (exp.) 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
2010 M.A., Sociology, Princeton University Exam Areas: Demography, Inequality, and Crime and Punishment
2005 B.A., Psychology, University of California, Berkeley (Highest Honors)
BOOKS
Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice (with Philip Goodman & Joshua Page). Under Contract with Oxford University Press.
SCHOLARLY ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
In Publication and Forthcoming “The Paradox of Probation: Community Supervision in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” Conditional Acceptance at Law & Policy.
“Inequality and Punishment: The End of Mass Incarceration?” (with Devah Pager) in McLean, Alair and David Grusky (Eds), Living in a High Inequality Regime. Forthcoming. New York: Russell Sage Press.
“The Place of Punishment: Variation in the Provision of Inmate Services Staff Across the Punitive Turn.” 2012. Journal of Criminal Justice 40(5): 348-357.
“Rehabilitation in the Punitive Era: The Gap between Rhetoric and Reality in U.S. Prison Programs.” 2011. Law & Society Review 45(1): 33-68.
Work Under Review and In Progress “Prison as a Social Context: Residential Mobility, Social Ties, and Disorder in Prison” (with Devah Pager). Under Review.
“The End of Mass Incarceration? The Social, Political, and Economic Contexts in which Prison Populations Decline” (with Devah Pager). Under Review.
“Reconceptualizing the Scale of Punishment: State Variation in Mass Probation.” In Preparation.
“The Development of Mass Probation in Michigan.” In Progress. Phelps C.V., p. 2
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2012 Dissertation Seed Grant, Department of Sociology, Princeton University ($1,000) 2010-2013 Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation 2008-2010 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education 2008 Summer Fellowship, Arthur Liman Public Interest Program, Yale Law School 2007-2012 Travel Grant, Department of Sociology, Office of Population Research, and Graduate School, Princeton University (various years) 2007-2008 University Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
AWARDS & HONORS
2010 Graduate Student Workshop Invite & Travel Award, Law and Society Association 2010 Distinction on Qualifying Exams, Department of Sociology, Princeton University 2005 Highest Honors, University of California, Berkeley
CONFERENCE & INVITED PRESENTATIONS
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, Aug. 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 & Joshua Page). Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, June 2012.
2011 “Inequality and Punishment: A Turning Point for Mass Incarceration?” (with Devah Pager). Invited talk, Festschrift for Robert Hauser, Stanford University, Nov. 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.
“A Turning Point for Mass Incarceration?” (with Devah Pager). Invited talk, Neil A. Wiener Research Speaker Series, Vera Institute of Justice, New York, NY, Oct. 2011.
“Mass Incarceration and (Mass) Probation: Two Sides of Punishment or Different Strategies of State Control?” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, Aug. 2011.
September 2012 Phelps C.V., p. 3
“The Other Face of Punishment: Probation and the Punitive Turn.” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, June 2011.
“Inequality and Punishment: A Turning Point for Mass Incarceration?” (with Devah Pager). Invited Paper, Festschrift for Robert Hauser, University of Wisconsin, May 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.
2010 “Prison as a Social Context: Inmate Trajectories and their Facility Environments over Time” (with Devah Pager). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Aug. 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.
“The Prison as a Socializing Institution” (with Devah Pager). Invited talk, 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.
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.
"The Decline of Rehabilitation: Rhetoric or Reality?" Crime and Punishment Workshop, Princeton University, May 2009.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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)
Volunteer Tutor/Instructor 2005-2007 G.E.D. program, Fortune Society, New York, NY 2003-2004 G.E.D. and college program, San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, CA
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 Development Associate, Center for Court Innovation, New York, NY 2003-2005 Research Associate, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, Oakland, CA
September 2012 Phelps C.V., p. 4
SERVICE & ACTIVITIES
Department Service, Princeton University 2009-2010 Sociology Department Representative, Graduate Student Government 2008-2009 Co-Chair, Student Social Fund, Office of Population Research
External Service Conference Panel Organizer (O), Chair (C), and/or Discussant (D) 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)
Occasional Reviewer Ethnography Social Psychology Quarterly
University Affiliations 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 2007—2013 Graduate Student, Joint Degree Program in Sociology, Princeton University
Professional Memberships American Sociological Association, Law & Society Association, American Society of Criminology, Population Association of America
REFERENCES
Professor Devah Pager (609) 258-8725 Department of Sociology [email protected] Princeton University
Professor Kim Lane Scheppele (609) 258-6949 Program on Law and Public Affairs [email protected] Princeton University
Professor Miguel Centeno (609) 258-4452 Department of Sociology [email protected] Princeton University
Professor Amy Lerman (609) 258-0559 Department of Politics [email protected] Princeton University
September 2012