Michelle Phelps

she/her

phelps@umn.edu

Sociology

1035 Social Sciences Building

267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Curriculum Vitae

Collegiate Affiliation

Sociology

Links

Personal Website

Prof. Phelps’ research is in the sociology of punishment, focusing in particular on the punitive turn in the U.S. Much of her work focuses on the rise of probation supervision as a criminal justice sanction and its relationship to mass incarceration. She has also examined a variety of criminal justice topics, including the build-up of mass incarceration and police reform.

For more detailed and up-to-date information, please find her personal website at: www.michellesphelps.com.

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Sociology and Social Policy, Princeton University, 2013
M.A: Sociology, Princeton University, 2010
B.A: Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 2005

Specialties

Crime, Law and Deviance
Inequality
Mixed Methods

Publications

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Publications

Phelps, Michelle S., Anneliese Ward, and Dwjuan Frazier. 2021. “From Police Reform to Police Abolition? How Minneapolis Activists Fought to Make Black Lives Matter.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly (Special Issue on the Black Lives Movement) 26(4): 421–441.
Phelps, Michelle S., Christopher E. Robertson,GS and Amber Joy Powell.GS 2021. “‘We're still dying quicker than we can effect change’: #BlackLivesMatter and the Limits of 21st-Century Policing Reform.” American Journal of Sociology 127(3): 867-903.
Goodman, Philip, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps. 2015. “The Long Struggle: An Agonistic Perspective on Penal Development.” Theoretical Criminology 19(3): 315-335.
Powell, Amber Joy and Michelle S. Phelps. 2021. “Gendered Racial Vulnerability: How Women Confront Crime and Criminalization.” Law & Society Review 55(4): 429-451. (First Published Online July 30, 2021.)
Phelps, Michelle S. and Amber M. Hamilton.GS 2022. “Visualizing Injustice or Reifying Racism? Images in the Digital Media Coverage of the Killing of Michael Brown.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 8(1): 160-175. (First Published Online June 9, 2021.)
Phelps, Michelle S. and Ebony L. Ruhland. 2021. “Governing Marginality: Coercion and Care in Probation.” Social Problems. Published Online (Jan. 6).
Winkelman, Tyler N.A., Michelle S. Phelps, Kelly Lyn Mitchell, Latasha Jennings, and Rebecca J. Shlafer. 2020. “Physical Health and Disability Among U.S. Adults Recently on Community Supervision.” Journal of Correctional Health Care 26(2): 129-137.
Page, Joshua, Michelle Phelps, and Philip Goodman. 2019. “Consensus in the Penal Field? Revisiting Breaking the Pendulum.” Law & Social Inquiry 44(3): 822-827.
Rubin, Ashley and Michelle S. Phelps. 2017. “Fracturing the Penal State: State Actors and the Role of Conflict in Penal Change.” Theoretical Criminology 21(4): 422-440.
Goodman, Philip, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps. 2017. Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press.
Phelps, Michelle S. 2013. “The Paradox of Probation: Community Supervision in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” Law & Policy 35(1-2): 51-80.
Phelps, Michelle S. 2011. “Rehabilitation in the Punitive Era: The Gap between Rhetoric and Reality in U.S. Prison Programs.” Law & Society Review 45(1): 33-68.

Awards

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Awards

Cooperman, Cooperman Sociology Summer Interdisciplinary Award, University of Minnesota, 2022
Public Sociology, Public Sociology Award, Dept. of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 2021
Talle, Talle Faculty Research Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2020
Mentoring , Faculty Mentoring Award, Dept. of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 2019
CURA FIRP, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs Faculty Interactive Research Program Award, 2018

Courses

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Courses

Soc 3101 - Sociological Perspectives on the American Criminal Justice System
Soc 4105 - Punishment and Corrections
SOC 4125 - Policing America
Soc 8190 - Law, Crime, and Deviance Special Topics (Race, Crime, & Punishment)