CURRICULUM VITAE Joshua Page Department of Sociology 909 Social Sciences Building 267 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (510) 703-3523 [email protected] EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, January 2007- Present. 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 Page, Joshua. 2011. The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California. New York: Oxford University Press. Articles in Refereed Journals 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): 745- 777. 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. 1 Book Chapters and other Scholarly Publications Page, Joshua. Forthcoming. “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. Forthcoming. “Beyond the Trial: The Disproportionate Imprisonment of African Americans.” Teaching Race in the 21st Century. Edited by Ron Aminzade, David Pellow, and Kristin Haltinner. Page, Joshua and Shelly Shaefer. 2011. “From Risks to Assets: Toward a Strengths-Based 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. Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice. Book proposal under review at Oxford University Press. Page, Joshua. “No Apologies: The Rise of the California Prison Officers Association and the Case for Critiquing Destructive Union Policies.” Accept conditional upon revisions at Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society. Lerman, Amy and Joshua Page. “The State of the Job: An Embedded Work Role Perspective on Prison Officer Attitudes.” Under review at Punishment & Society. Page, Joshua and Joe Soss. “The Wire as Weathervane: Reflections on the Shifting Winds of Urban Poverty, State Surveillance, and Social Control.” Chapter in preparation for edited book, Everything is Connected: The Politics of HBO’s “The Wire.” Page, Joshua and Kia Heise. “The Modern Octopus: Newspapers Take On the ‘Powerful Prison Guards Union’.” 2 Page, Joshua and Sarah Shannon. “Bureaucrats Behind Bars: How Work Environment and Job Stress Affect Prison Officers” Attitudes Toward Prisoners.” 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. 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 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 The ASA Labor and Labor Movements Section, Distinguished Scholarly Article Award for “Manufacturing Affinity: The Fortification and Expression of Ties between Prison Officers and Crime Victims” 2010 ASA 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) 3 INVITED TALKS 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. 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, 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. 4 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. 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 2012 Introduction