You have reached the personal web site of Joachim Savelsberg, a professor in the Department of Sociology and an affiliate with the Law School of the University of Minnesota. I am also a holder of the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, dedicated to issues of human rights and genocide.
Recent work addresses representations and memories of mass violence, especially through legal intervention. I am currently working toward a sociology of genocide knowledge, focusing on the Armenian case. Previous research concerned comparative imprisonment rates, the sociology of criminology, sentencing guidelines and the criminalization of white collar offenses.
I earned my degrees in my native Germany (Cologne and Trier), where I also worked as a researcher at University of Bremen and the KFN in Hanover. I first came to the United States in 1982 (Research Fellowship at Johns Hopkins) and 1986 (John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard). I joined the University of Minnesota and relocated to the US in 1989. Subsequent moves back and forth across the Atlantic enhanced my comparative perspective and attention to globalization issues. They include visiting professorships and fellowships in Bellagio (Rockefeller Foundation), Berlin (Humboldt University), Bonn (Kaete Hamburger Institute), Graz (Karl Franzens University), Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University), Paris (IEA), and Stellenbosch (STIAS).
I am married to Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, a cultural anthropologist and Africanist on the faculty of Carleton College. We have two adult daughters, Anna and Rebecca. For an auto-biographical essay see: Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2007. “Between Worlds: Marginalities, Comparisons, Sociology.” Pp. 49-64 in Sociologists in a Global Age: Biographical Perspectives, edited by Mathieu Deflem. Ashgate. For a biographical interview, conducted by Ryan D. King, see: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQRGDg7iPr4>
Recent work addresses representations and memories of mass violence, especially through legal intervention. I am currently working toward a sociology of genocide knowledge, focusing on the Armenian case. Previous research concerned comparative imprisonment rates, the sociology of criminology, sentencing guidelines and the criminalization of white collar offenses.
I earned my degrees in my native Germany (Cologne and Trier), where I also worked as a researcher at University of Bremen and the KFN in Hanover. I first came to the United States in 1982 (Research Fellowship at Johns Hopkins) and 1986 (John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard). I joined the University of Minnesota and relocated to the US in 1989. Subsequent moves back and forth across the Atlantic enhanced my comparative perspective and attention to globalization issues. They include visiting professorships and fellowships in Bellagio (Rockefeller Foundation), Berlin (Humboldt University), Bonn (Kaete Hamburger Institute), Graz (Karl Franzens University), Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University), Paris (IEA), and Stellenbosch (STIAS).
I am married to Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, a cultural anthropologist and Africanist on the faculty of Carleton College. We have two adult daughters, Anna and Rebecca. For an auto-biographical essay see: Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2007. “Between Worlds: Marginalities, Comparisons, Sociology.” Pp. 49-64 in Sociologists in a Global Age: Biographical Perspectives, edited by Mathieu Deflem. Ashgate. For a biographical interview, conducted by Ryan D. King, see: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQRGDg7iPr4>
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