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.
Much of my 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 institutional conditions of knowledge about crime and punishment in international and temporal comparison and associated dynamics of criminal punishment. Specific themes include 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 United States in 1989. Subsequent moves back and forth across the Atlantic, with visiting professorships and fellowships in Bellagio (Rockefeller Foundation), Berlin (Humboldt University), Bonn (Kaete Hamburger Institute), Graz (Karl Franzens University), Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University) and Stellenbosch (STIAS), contributed to inspiring my comparative perspective and critical attention to globalization issues.
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 a biographical essay see: Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2007. “Between Worlds: Marginalities, Comparisons, Sociology.” Pp. 49-64 in Lessons from Sociology: Global Perspectives on Sociological Careers, edited by Mathieu Deflem. Aldershot: Ashgate.
For a biographical interview, conducted by Ryan D. King, see: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQRGDg7iPr4>
Much of my 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 institutional conditions of knowledge about crime and punishment in international and temporal comparison and associated dynamics of criminal punishment. Specific themes include 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 United States in 1989. Subsequent moves back and forth across the Atlantic, with visiting professorships and fellowships in Bellagio (Rockefeller Foundation), Berlin (Humboldt University), Bonn (Kaete Hamburger Institute), Graz (Karl Franzens University), Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University) and Stellenbosch (STIAS), contributed to inspiring my comparative perspective and critical attention to globalization issues.
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 a biographical essay see: Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2007. “Between Worlds: Marginalities, Comparisons, Sociology.” Pp. 49-64 in Lessons from Sociology: Global Perspectives on Sociological Careers, edited by Mathieu Deflem. Aldershot: Ashgate.
For a biographical interview, conducted by Ryan D. King, see: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQRGDg7iPr4>
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