Michael Lawrence Walker
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., University of California-Riverside, Sociology
Advisor: Ellen Reese, 2014
M.A., University of California-Riverside, Sociology, 2011
B.A., University of California-Riverside, Economics, 2006
Fellowships & Residencies
Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2022 - 2026
Crime and Justice Summer Research Institute Fellow
Ohio State University 2014
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2022 - present
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2017 - present
Assistant Professor
University of Nebraska-Omaha, 2014 -2017
Research
Publications
Walker, Michael L. 2022. Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Walker, Michael L. 2021. "Ethnographic Reflections on Event-Time in Jail."
Pp. 553 - 71 in Oxford University Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice, edited by S. Bucerius, K. Haggerty, and L. Beradrdi. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Walker, Michael L. 2021. "Still Taking His Class: A Meditation on the
Significance of Jonathan H. Turner's Influence." Pp. 340 - 48 in Theoretical Sociology: The Future of a Disciplinary Foundation, edited by S. Abrutyn and K. McCaffree. New York: Routledge.
Lopez-Aguado, Patrick and Michael L. Walker. 2019. "'I Don't Bang: I'm Just a
Blood': Situating Gang Identities in Their Proper Place." Theoretical Criminology 25(1): 107-26.
Walker, Michael L. 2016. "Race Making in a Penal Institution." American
Journal of Sociology 121(4): 1051-78.
Outstanding Article Award, American Society of Criminology, 2018
Book Reviews
Walker, Michael L. Forthcoming. Privilege and Punishment: How Race and
Class Matter in Court, by Matthew Clair. Punishment & Society.
Walker, Michael L. 2016. The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison
Gangs Govern the American Penal System, by David Skarbek. Theoretical Criminology 20(1): 116-18.
Reese, Ellen and Michael L. Walker. 2013. Three Worlds of Relief: Race,
Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal, by Cybelle Fox. American Journal of Sociology 118(6): 393.
Under Review
Walker, Michael L. "Carceral Autonomy: A Study of Social Exchange in a
Carceral Setting." (revise & resubmit)
Patterson, Evelyn J., Michael L. Walker, Darwin A. Baluran, and Rachel
Zajdel. "Cloistered Population Research Designs: A Set of Heuristics for the Study of Social Arrangements."
In Progress
Walker, Michael L. and Patrick Lopez-Aguado. "Towards a General Theory
of Criminal Objectification."
Walker, Michael L. "Negotiating Racist Ifs and When's through Anticipatory
Activity."
Selected Presentations
"The Master's Tool: Problems of Sleep Hygiene in Jail"
Crime, Law, and Society Workshop, Northwester University, Zoom [invited], 4-26-21
"Jailing through Penal Time"
University of Southern California, Zoom of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Zoom [invited], 12-3-20
"'Who's Your Rep?': A Social Exchange Perspective on Control"
Centre for Criminological Research Inaugural Conference, University of Alberta, Zoom [invited], 11-18-20
"Race, Race Relations, and Penal Management"
College of the Desert, Zoom [invited], 10-5-20
"'Who's Your Rep?': Power-Dependence in the Management of Prisoners"
Duke University, Zoom [invited], 9-25-20
"Power and Control: A Social Exchange Perspective on Penal Management"
University of Southern California, Zoom [invited], 2-12-20
"'Who's Your Rep?': Marshaling Classification for Control"
American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA, 11-14-19
"The Social Science is in the Details"
American Voices Project, Baltimore, MD [invited], 6-28-19
"Ethnographic Insights on the Concept of Degradation"
American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA, 11-14-18
"Weathering Adaptation and Punishment"
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ [invited], 3-20-16
"Race Making in a Penal Institution"
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN [invited], 4-20-16
"Weathering Adaptation and Punishment"
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI [invited], 5-4-16
"Spatializing Gang Identity in the Context of Youth Criminalization"
Society for the Study of Social Problems, Seattle, WA (presented with Patrick Lopez-Aguado), 8-19-16
Teaching
Law, Crime, & Punishment, SOC 1101
Criminal Behavior & Social Control, SOC 3102
Deviant Behavior, SOC 4111
Sociology of Violence, SOC 4113
Democracy Under Threat, SOC 1930
Advanced Research Methods: Ethnography, SOC 8852
Advanced Sociological Theory: Social Psychological Theories of Power and
Emotion, SOC 8790
Service & Consulting
Professional
Editorial Advisory Board Member
Punishment & Society, 2022 - present
Editorial Advisory Board Member
Incarceration, 2021 - present
Advisory Board Member
Advancing Pretrial Policy & Research, RTI International, 2020 - present
Editorial Advisory Board Member
Criminology, 2020 - 2023
Session Organizer: Criminology
American Sociological Association, 2019
University
Black Grads Race Talk, Organizer
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2020 - present
Community
Manly Deeds Scholarship Committee Member
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, ΗΠΛ Chapter, 2012 - present