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Sarah Esther Lageson

909 Social Sciences


267 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
sarahlageson@gmail.com
www.sarahlageson.com
Education

Ph.D., Sociology, expected 2015


University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Dissertation: Crime Reporting in a Wired World: Surveillance, Online Records & the
Digital Punishment Revolution
Committee: Chris Uggen (Advisor), Josh Page, Gabrielle Ferrales,
Amy Kristin Sanders (Journalism, Northwestern University)
M.A. Sociology, 2012 (entered 2009)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Thesis: Legal Ambiguity in Managerial Assessments of Criminal Records
B.A. Anthropology & History, 2007
Washington University in St. Louis

Journal
Articles

Mike Vuolo, Chris Uggen, and Sarah Lageson. Forthcoming. Statistical Power in
Experimental Audit Studies: Cautions and Calculations for Paired Tests with Dichotomous
Outcomes. Sociological Methods & Research.
Sarah Lageson, Mike Vuolo, and Chris Uggen. 2014. Legal Ambiguity in Managerial
Assessments of Criminal Records. Law and Social Inquiry. Early view online.
Chris Uggen, Mike Vuolo, Sarah Lageson, Ebony Ruhland, Hilary Whitham. 2014. The
Edge of Stigma: An Experimental Audit of the Effects of Low-level Criminal Records on
Employment. Criminology 52(4).
Mike Vuolo, Chris Uggen, and Sarah Lageson. 2014. Taste Clusters of Music and Drugs:
Evidence from Three Analytical Levels. British Journal of Sociology 65(3).
Sarah Lageson, Kyle Green, and Sinan Erensu. 2011. The Wire Goes to College. Contexts
(10)3: 12-15.

Book
Chapters

Sarah Lageson. 2014. Correcting American Corrections, with Francis Cullen, David
Garland, David Jacobs, and Jeremy Travis. Crime and the Punished, edited by Doug
Hartmann and Chris Uggen. New York: W.W. Norton.
Sarah Shannon and Sarah Lageson. 2014. "Discovering Desistance." Crime and the
Punished, edited by Doug Hartmann and Chris Uggen. New York: W.W. Norton.
Sarah Lageson and Chris Uggen. 2013. Crime, Punishment and Employment Over the Life
Course. Handbook of Life Course Criminology, edited by Marvin Krohn and Chris Gibson.
New York: Springer.
Sarah Lageson, Sinan Erensu, and Kyle Green. 2013. "Laughter and the Political
Landscape. The Social Side of Politics, edited by Doug Hartmann and Chris Uggen. New
York: W.W. Norton.
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Articles Under
Review &
In Progress

Sarah Lageson. First Amendment Consciousness and Online Crime Reporting. Manuscript
under review.
Sarah Lageson. Digital Punishment: The Persistence of Online Criminal Histories in an
Expungement Clinic Setting. Manuscript in preparation for 2016 ANNALS of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Sarah Lageson. The Field of Digital Crime Reporting: Evidence from Crime Website
Publishers. Manuscript available.
Mike Vuolo, Chris Uggen, and Sarah Lageson. Race, Recession, and Social Closure in the
Low Wage Labor Market: Experimental and Observational Evidence. Manuscript available.
Sarah Lageson. The Effects of Online Reader Comments on Crime News: An Online
Experiment. Research in progress.
Mike Vuolo, Sarah Lageson, and Chris Uggen. Criminal Records, Employment, and
Compliance to Ban the Box. Research in Progress.
Kyle Green and Sarah Lageson. Give Methods a Chance: Interviews with Social Scientists.
Edited volume in progress.

Awards &
Grants

2014-2015. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. University of Minnesota. ($22,500)


2013-2014. Bilinski Educational Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. ($25,500)
2013. Selected Participant for Law and Society Association Graduate Student Workshop
2012. Ron Anderson Technology and Social Cohesion Award ($2,500)
2011-2013. Graduate Digital Media Fellowship. College of Liberal Arts Office of
Information Technology, University of Minnesota ($45,000)
2011-2013. University of Minnesota Professional Development Award ($3,000)
2010. Public Sociology Award, University of Minnesota Department of Sociology
2010. Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota ($4,000)
2010. Academic Technology Grant, University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts Office
of Information Technology ($5,000)
2008. Segal Americorps Education Award ($5,000)
2007. Helen & Isaac Izenberg Writing Award, Washington University in St. Louis

Academic
Appointments

Research Assistant, Minnesota Population Center. 2014-present.


PI: Erin Kelly & Phyllis Moen
Managed current survey wave of longitudinal study of employment policies
Digital Media Fellow, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. 2011-2013.
Produced research and teaching media for Sociology Department and College

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Research Assistant, University of Minnesota Law School. 2010-2012.


PI: Barry C. Feld.
Conducted quantitative analyses published in Kids, Cops and Confessions: Inside the
Interrogation Room, NYU Press
Research Assistant, University of Minnesota Sociology. 2009-2010
PI: Chris Uggen
Collected data for experimental field audit of criminal records and employment
Courses
Designed and
Taught

Sociology 4161: Criminal Law in American Society


University of Minnesota, 2014
Sociology 3101: Introduction to American Criminal Justice
University of Minnesota, 2013-14
Century College, 2012
Sociology 100: Introduction to Sociology
University of St. Thomas, 2014

Editorial

Graduate Editorial Board, Law & Society Review. 2014-present.


Graduate Editorial Board, The Society Pages. 2010-present.
Founding Producer and Host, Office Hours Social Science Podcast. 2008-present.
Graduate Editorial Board, Contexts Magazine. 2009-2011.

Applied
Research &
Nonprofit
Work

Grants, Program Evaluation & Statistical Consulting


Mind the Gap Prisoner Reentry Project. 2012.
Seward Towers Housing Complex Community Survey. 2012.
Families in Focus Prison Parenting Program, Minnesota Department of Corrections.
2010-2012.
Prisoner Re-Entry Family Strengthening Project, Council on Crime and Justice. 20072011.
Healthy Educational Lifestyles Project, Prison Education Program, Minnesota
Department of Corrections. 2008-2010.
Qualitative Research, Writing & Editing
Crime Victim Service Access Project. 2014.
Domestic Violence Research Initiative Report for United Way. 2010.
Minnesota FATHER Project Program Documentation. 2009.
Minneapolis Public Schools, Institutional Ethnography, Minneapolis Public Schools
Special School District #1. 2008.
The State of Fatherhood Programming in Minnesota, Special Report: Minnesota Fathers
and Families Network. 2008.
Research Staff Positions
Research Coordinator, Council on Crime and Justice, Minneapolis, MN. 2008-2009.
Research Assistant, Americorps VISTA Minnesota Prisoner Reentry Initiative. 20072008.

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Presentations

2014
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Public
Sociology:
Writing

*The Effects of Online Reader Comments on Crime News. American Society of


Criminology Annual Meeting: San Francisco, CA.
How Do Employers Ask about Criminal Records on Entry-Level Job
Applications? American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting: San Francisco,
CA., with Mike Vuolo and Chris Uggen.
*Conceptions of the First Amendment and Online Crime Reporting. Law and
Society Association Annual Meeting: Minneapolis, MN.
Invited Discussant. Mass Media and the Public Sphere. Midwest Sociological
Society Annual Meeting: Omaha, NE.
*The Construction of Crime through News and Blogging. American Society of
Criminology Annual Meeting: Atlanta, GA.
Statistical Power in Experimental Audit Studies: Cautions and Calculations for
Paired Tests with Dichotomous Outcomes. American Criminological Association
Annual Meeting: Atlanta, GA., with Mike Vuolo and Chris Uggen
*Punishment, Society and Journalism: Interviews with Bloggers and Journalists.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting: Boston, MA.
Critical Dialogue: New Media and Sociology. Society for the Study of Social
Problems Annual Meeting: New York, NY.
*Public Sociology Online. Media Sociology Pre-Conference to ASA Annual
Meeting: New York, NY.
*The Construction of Crime through News and Blogging. American Society of
Criminology Annual Meeting: Atlanta, GA.
The Effect of the Great Recession on Entry-Level Job Applicants by Race: A
Happenstance Field Experiment. American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting: New York, NY, with Mike Vuolo and Chris Uggen.
Statistical Power in Experimental Audit Studies: Cautions and Calculations for
Paired Tests with Dichotomous Outcomes. American Criminological Society
Annual Meting: Atlanta, GA.
Evaluation of a Federally-Funded Prisoner Reentry Program. American Society of
Criminology Annual Meeting: Chicago, IL., with Ebony Ruhland.
*Employer Perspectives on Criminal Records. Midwest Sociological Society
Annual Meeting: Minneapolis, MN., with Mike Vuolo and Chris Uggen.
Music and Drugs: Evidence from Three Analytical Levels. American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting: Las Vegas, NV.
*Qualitative Evidence for Employer Decision-Making for Applicants with Criminal
Records. Sociology Research Institute, University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, MN.
*Employer Decisions Regarding Criminal Records: A Comparison of Self-Reported
and Observed Behavior. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting: San
Francisco, CA., with Mike Vuolo and Chris Uggen.
An Experimental Audit of the Effects of Low-level Criminal Records on
Employment. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting: San Francisco,
CA. Also presented at the Department of Sociology Workshop, Department of
Sociology, University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, MN.
*denotes solo presentation or lead presenter

The Enduring Effects of Online Mug Shots. The Society Pages roundtable. 2014.
Music and the Quest for a Tribe. The Society Pages feature. 2014.
Health, Science and Shared Disparities. The Society Pages feature 2014.
Correcting American Corrections, with Jeremy Travis, Frank Cullen, David Garland,
and David Jacobs. 2012. The Society Pages roundtable.
Laughter and the Political Landscape. 2012. The Society Pages roundtable.
Love, Family and Incarceration: A Conversation with Megan Comfort. 2012. The
Society Pages feature.
Social Scientists Studying Social Movements. 2012. The Society Pages roundtable,
with Kyle Green and Sinan Erensu.
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Public
Sociology:
Podcasts

Emily Bazelon on Academia and Journalism. 2014. Office Hours Podcast.


John Skrentny on Racial Realism and Civil Rights. 2014. Office Hours Podcast.
Osagie Obasogie on Race and Colorblindness. 2014. Office Hours Podcast.
Jennifer Silva on Working Class Growing Pains. 2014. Contexts Podcast.
Colter Ellis on Boundary Labor. 2014. Office Hours Podcast.
Brian Southwell on Social Networks and Health. 2014. Office Hours Podcast.
Jamie Longazel & Benjamin Fleury-Steiner on The Pains of Mass Incarceration. 2013.
Office Hours Podcast.
Emily Baxter on We Are All Criminals. 2013. Office Hours Podcast.
Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores on Gated Communities. 2013. Contexts Podcast.
John Bateson on The Deadly Span. 2013. Contexts Podcast.
Shadd Maruna & Fergus McNeill on Criminology & Film. 2012. Office Hours Podcast.
David Harris on Law Enforcement and Science. 2012. Office Hours Podcast.
Michael Schudson on the Sociology of News. 2012. Office Hours Podcast.
Jenn Lena on Banding Together. 2012. Office Hours Podcast.
Joel Best on Social Problems. 2012. Office Hours Podcast.
David Garland on the Death Penalty. 2012. Office Hours Podcast.
Heather LaMarre on Humor and Politics. 2012. Office Hours Podcast.
Megan Comfort on Prison and Families. 2012. Office Hours Podcast.
Charis Kubrin on Criminology and Culture. 2011. Office Hours Podcast.
Corey Shdaimah on Progressive Lawyering. 2011. Office Hours Podcast.

Service

Promotion, Tenure & Salary Committee Representative, University of Minnesota, 2014.


Graduate Representative to Faculty Meetings, University of Minnesota, 2011-2012.
Sociology Research Institute Planning Committee, University of Minnesota, 2010-2011.
McNair Scholars Program Research Mentor, University of Minnesota, 2008-2009.
Documentary Producer. KFAI Community Radio, Minneapolis MN. 2007-present.
Photography Instructor, C-Dreams Photography Class for Children of Incarcerated Parents.
Minneapolis, MN. 2008.
Mentor, Youth News Initiative. Minneapolis, MN. 2007.
Mentor, International Womens Day Radio Programming. Minneapolis, MN. 2007.

Media

Online/Print: Examiner.com, Using the Internet for Social Control


Radio/Podcast: KFAI 90.3 FM Minneapolis, KMOJ 89.9 FM Minneapolis, Public Radio
Exchange, Minnesota Legacy Project

Memberships

American Sociological Association, American Society of Criminology, Midwest


Sociological Society, Law and Society Association

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