Christopher Uggen

Christopher Uggen
Born	c. 1964 (age 51–52)
Fields	Sociology
Institutions	University of Minnesota
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin–Madison
Doctoral advisor	Ross Matsueda
Website www.soc.umn.edu/~uggen/

Christopher Uggen (born c. 1964) is the Distinguished McKnight Professor of sociology and law at the University of Minnesota, and earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.^[1] Uggen is best known for his sociological work on crime in the workplace, the life course, sexual harassment, and the effects of mass incarceration, including felon disenfranchisement, re-entry, recidivism, and inequality.

Background and early education

Uggen grew up in West St. Paul, Minnesota and attended Henry Sibley High School, graduating in 1982.^[2] He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison for undergraduate and graduate school, earning his PhD in 1995.

Career

Uggen began at the University of Minnesota in 1995, and was chair of the University of Minnesota Sociology Department from 2006 to 2012. Uggen gained recognition in the early 2000s for a 2003 American Sociological Review article with sociologist Jeff Manza, "Democratic Contraction: Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States," which gained significant attention after finding that the 2000 United States presidential election could have gone to Al Gore if felons were not disenfranchised.^[3] His research on race in the United States criminal justice system and collateral consequences of criminal conviction have also been widely cited, both in and out of the sociology discipline.

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