JOACHIM J. SAVELSBERG
  • About
  • Research & Publications
    • Armenian Genocide between Denial and Acknowledgement >
      • Massachusetts Curriculum Case
      • Swiss Perincek Case and the ECHR
      • French Denial Legislation
    • Collective Representations and Memories of Mass Violence >
      • Darfur
      • American Memories
      • Crime and Human Rights
    • Punishment and Society >
      • Comparative Punishment Rates
      • Sentencing and Guidelines
      • Criminalizing White-Collar Offenses
    • Sociology of Criminology
    • Other Activities
  • Teaching & Advising
    • Current Classes
    • Other Courses
    • Advising Practices & History
  • Grants & Honors
    • Scholarly Associations
    • Scholarly Journals
    • Fellowships & Visiting Professorships
  • CV
  • Contact
  • 2022: Barrington Moore Best Book Award, Section for Comparative and Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association, for Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles (University of California Press, 2021).
  • 2022 Gordon Hirabayashi Best Book Award--Honorable Mention, Section on Human Rights, American Sociological Association, for Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles (University of California Press, 2021)
  • 2021: Harry J. Kalven, Jr.  Award, Law & Society Association (for "empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in law and society.)
  • 2019: Lee Founders Award (for lifetime of work in the tradition of humanist sociology), Society for the Study of Social Problems.
  • 2019: Lifetime Achievement Award, Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems.
  • 2019: Fellowship, Paris Institute for Advanced Studies (February through June 2019).
  • 2018: Fellowship, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa (July through December 2018).
  • 2017: Visiting Scholar, Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, Belfast (June).
  • 2017: Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Scholar Award, Section for Crime, Law and Deviance, American Sociological Association.
  • 2017: William J. Chambliss Lifetime Achievement Award, Law & Society Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems.
  • 2016-17: Candidate for President, Society for the Study of Social Problems.
  • 2016-17: Elected Chair, Section for Human Rights, American Sociological Association.
  • 2015: Guest Scholar, Fondation Maison des Science de l’Homme, Paris (summer).
  • 2014-23: Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, College of Liberal Arts, University of  Minnesota.
  • 2014- : Affiliate Faculty, University of Minnesota School of Law
  • 2013-14: Fellowship, Käte Hamburger Institute for Advanced Study “Law as Culture” (Bonn, Germany).
  • 2010-11: Visiting Research Professor, Humboldt Center for Social and Political Research, Humboldt University, Berlin: “Collective Representations and Memories of Atrocities after Judicial Intervention.”
  • 2010: Collaborative Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center: “Collective Criminality and Human Rights: Violence, Memory, Responsibility” (with John Hagan and Jens Meierhenrich).
  • 2008: Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Minnesota, Fall Semester 2008.
  • 2003-04: Visiting Professor, Karl-Franzens Universität (Graz, Austria).
  • 2000: Visiting Professor, Ludwig-Maximilian Universität München, (Munich, Germany—Spring Semester).
  • 1987-88: John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University (supplemental funds from DAAD): “The Construction of Federal Sentencing Guidelines in Light of Max Weber’s Sociology of Law.”
  • 1986: Senior Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research (declined in favor of a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University).
  • 1982: Research Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research, and DAAD, “Community based Crime Prevention and Ethnic Minorities: How to Learn from American Experiences for West German Cities.”
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  • About
  • Research & Publications
    • Armenian Genocide between Denial and Acknowledgement >
      • Massachusetts Curriculum Case
      • Swiss Perincek Case and the ECHR
      • French Denial Legislation
    • Collective Representations and Memories of Mass Violence >
      • Darfur
      • American Memories
      • Crime and Human Rights
    • Punishment and Society >
      • Comparative Punishment Rates
      • Sentencing and Guidelines
      • Criminalizing White-Collar Offenses
    • Sociology of Criminology
    • Other Activities
  • Teaching & Advising
    • Current Classes
    • Other Courses
    • Advising Practices & History
  • Grants & Honors
    • Scholarly Associations
    • Scholarly Journals
    • Fellowships & Visiting Professorships
  • CV
  • Contact