You have reached the personal web site of Joachim Savelsberg, a professor emeritus of sociology and (by courtesy) law of the University of Minnesota. I am also a past holder of the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, dedicated to issues of human rights and genocide.
Current research includes a project on NGO-prosecutorial networks in universal jurisdiction proceedings, funded by the National Science Foundation, and a cohort study of experiences of German Jews during the 1910s to 1930s in Germany, based on the USC Visual History Archives.
My most recent book, Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles, was published in 2021 with the University of California Press. For a 5-minute summary video see here, for a podcast here. In Representing Mass Violence, I contrast legal and human rights representations of mass violence in Darfur with those generated in the fields of humanitarianism and diplomacy and their selective transmission by media in eight countries. American Memories: Atrocities and the Law examines how legal interventions color collective memories of mass violence. Earlier work concerns comparative imprisonment rates, the sociology of criminology, sentencing guidelines and Weberian sociology of law, and the criminalization of white-collar offenses.
I earned my degrees in my native Germany (Cologne and Trier). After research positions at Bremen and Hanover (KFN) and post-doctoral fellowships at Johns Hopkins (1982) and Harvard (1986, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow), I joined the Minnesota faculty in 1989. Subsequent visiting professorships and fellowships brought me to Bellagio (Rockefeller Foundation), Berlin (Humboldt University), Bonn (Kaete Hamburger Institute), Graz (Karl Franzens University), Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University), Paris (Institut d'études avancées), Stellenbosch (STIAS), and the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati.
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. Here is a biographical interview, conducted by Ryan D. King.
Current research includes a project on NGO-prosecutorial networks in universal jurisdiction proceedings, funded by the National Science Foundation, and a cohort study of experiences of German Jews during the 1910s to 1930s in Germany, based on the USC Visual History Archives.
My most recent book, Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles, was published in 2021 with the University of California Press. For a 5-minute summary video see here, for a podcast here. In Representing Mass Violence, I contrast legal and human rights representations of mass violence in Darfur with those generated in the fields of humanitarianism and diplomacy and their selective transmission by media in eight countries. American Memories: Atrocities and the Law examines how legal interventions color collective memories of mass violence. Earlier work concerns comparative imprisonment rates, the sociology of criminology, sentencing guidelines and Weberian sociology of law, and the criminalization of white-collar offenses.
I earned my degrees in my native Germany (Cologne and Trier). After research positions at Bremen and Hanover (KFN) and post-doctoral fellowships at Johns Hopkins (1982) and Harvard (1986, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow), I joined the Minnesota faculty in 1989. Subsequent visiting professorships and fellowships brought me to Bellagio (Rockefeller Foundation), Berlin (Humboldt University), Bonn (Kaete Hamburger Institute), Graz (Karl Franzens University), Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University), Paris (Institut d'études avancées), Stellenbosch (STIAS), and the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati.
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. Here is a biographical interview, conducted by Ryan D. King.
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