Michelle S. Phelps
@michellesphelps.bsky.social
Professor at UMN, Sociologist, Mom | Books: Breaking the Pendulum on criminal justice & The Minneapolis Reckoning on the politics of policing | www.michellesphelps.com.
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Jury said no, it mayo not please the court
November 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Jury said no, it mayo not please the court
Minneapolis is not New York. Four more years of teaching folks how to pronounce "Frey" I guess.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Jacob Frey wins re-election as mayor of Minneapolis.
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Minneapolis is not New York. Four more years of teaching folks how to pronounce "Frey" I guess.
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You can get a hardback copy of The Minneapolis Reckoning now for just $9 as PUP books go on sale (sale code: SAVE70). The paperback version is coming May 2026 but this is an even better deal.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
October 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
You can get a hardback copy of The Minneapolis Reckoning now for just $9 as PUP books go on sale (sale code: SAVE70). The paperback version is coming May 2026 but this is an even better deal.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
You can get a hardback copy of The Minneapolis Reckoning now for just $9 as PUP books go on sale (sale code: SAVE70). The paperback version is coming May 2026 but this is an even better deal.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
October 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
You can get a hardback copy of The Minneapolis Reckoning now for just $9 as PUP books go on sale (sale code: SAVE70). The paperback version is coming May 2026 but this is an even better deal.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Obama wore a tan suit.
October 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Obama wore a tan suit.
I'm apparently a month behind on this news, but the 2024 ASA Jobs report is up -- www.asanet.org/wp-content/u.... See below for the banner finding (new asst prof jobs posted down from 283 in 2023 to 200 in 2024).
October 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I'm apparently a month behind on this news, but the 2024 ASA Jobs report is up -- www.asanet.org/wp-content/u.... See below for the banner finding (new asst prof jobs posted down from 283 in 2023 to 200 in 2024).
Coming off a recruitment event for UMN Sociology (where as of now, we are still admitting a small but fully-funded cohort...) and oof. Gonna have to sit with this one. I think it really hinges on whether jobs are ever coming back. There's no Q tho that higher ed is at a grim inflection point.
This is very bleak for institutional science, but as someone on the job market this cycle, I think it is kind of a blessing in disguise for people who were considering applying to PhD programs next cycle... The academic jobs just don't really exist anymore
October 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Coming off a recruitment event for UMN Sociology (where as of now, we are still admitting a small but fully-funded cohort...) and oof. Gonna have to sit with this one. I think it really hinges on whether jobs are ever coming back. There's no Q tho that higher ed is at a grim inflection point.
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
I recorded this podcast last year, when the openings around creative public safety models felt more robust. But the lessons today are the same. You can't police your way out of crisis.
📣 Professor Michelle Phelps was a recent guest on the Guns Unpacked podcast, where she discussed her latest book and the real-world impact of police abolition policy.
Check it out!
Check it out!
Dr. Michelle Phelps on Lessons from Minneapolis on Policing and Community Violence Intervention | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
In today’s episode of Guns Unpacked, we welcome Dr. Michelle Phelps, an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Phelps is an expert on probation, criminal justice reform, and ...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I recorded this podcast last year, when the openings around creative public safety models felt more robust. But the lessons today are the same. You can't police your way out of crisis.
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Once again, we are where we are bc there aren't yet enough Republicans who are now former Republicans like @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social, who put democracy & the rule of law above power & policy wins. The only way democracy will survive is if more folks follow his lead.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
This sign spoke to me.
(apologies for being such a bad photographer that I cut this fellow former Republican’s head out of the photo)
(apologies for being such a bad photographer that I cut this fellow former Republican’s head out of the photo)
October 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Once again, we are where we are bc there aren't yet enough Republicans who are now former Republicans like @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social, who put democracy & the rule of law above power & policy wins. The only way democracy will survive is if more folks follow his lead.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
October 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
every news story is worse than the one before
October 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
every news story is worse than the one before
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I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.
October 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.
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We are excited to announce the upcoming conference of the Sociologists of Minnesota, hosted by Macalester College in St. Paul, on October 3rd and 4th, 2025.
For more information about the conference or its details, please visit the Sociologists of Minnesota | 2025 Conference website.
For more information about the conference or its details, please visit the Sociologists of Minnesota | 2025 Conference website.
Sociologists of Minnesota | 2025 Conference
A professional association whose mission is to promote and develop an understanding of sociology and sociological practice in the state of Minnesota.
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September 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We are excited to announce the upcoming conference of the Sociologists of Minnesota, hosted by Macalester College in St. Paul, on October 3rd and 4th, 2025.
For more information about the conference or its details, please visit the Sociologists of Minnesota | 2025 Conference website.
For more information about the conference or its details, please visit the Sociologists of Minnesota | 2025 Conference website.
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there's been a rash of recent mass shootings in minneapolis. but crime is actually down. why doesn't it always feel that way? i looked into it. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Minneapolis crime is down — even if it doesn’t always feel that way
Producer Gretchen Brown talked with University of Minnesota Sociology Professor Michelle Phelps to try to make sense of the gap in crime perception versus reality.
www.mprnews.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
there's been a rash of recent mass shootings in minneapolis. but crime is actually down. why doesn't it always feel that way? i looked into it. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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There is no next step in the road to authoritarianism - it's just a matter of implementation. Trump declares war on the "enemy within" and his Secretary of War says the crackdown will be illegal and merciless. That's the whole enchilada right there.
At the same event, Hegseth said "We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country."
September 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
There is no next step in the road to authoritarianism - it's just a matter of implementation. Trump declares war on the "enemy within" and his Secretary of War says the crackdown will be illegal and merciless. That's the whole enchilada right there.
Pls share w/ your students -- Univ. of Minnesota's Sociology department is hosting a "how to apply" event for PhD applicants. Visit cla.umn.edu/sociology/gr... for more info. The world of higher ed (and beyond) is in crisis, but sociology can help us better understand the problems + solutions.
September 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Pls share w/ your students -- Univ. of Minnesota's Sociology department is hosting a "how to apply" event for PhD applicants. Visit cla.umn.edu/sociology/gr... for more info. The world of higher ed (and beyond) is in crisis, but sociology can help us better understand the problems + solutions.
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New in Social Problems: @michellesphelps.bsky.social & @dacuetovilla.bsky.social trace how Minneapolis activists debated public safety after George Floyd, showing how “racial demands” shape policy fights. doi.org/10.1093/socp...
Making racial demands: tracing the struggle over public safety in Minneapolis
Abstract. In May 2020, the world erupted in protest after officers with the Minneapolis Police Department murdered George Floyd. In response, abolitionist
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September 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
New in Social Problems: @michellesphelps.bsky.social & @dacuetovilla.bsky.social trace how Minneapolis activists debated public safety after George Floyd, showing how “racial demands” shape policy fights. doi.org/10.1093/socp...
That is 2 in 5! Every time I see these stats it breaks my brain how fractured America is.
Well, the rapture didn't happen this week. A few years ago, 39% of Americans said they think we are living in the end times.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
About four-in-ten U.S. adults believe humanity is ‘living in the end times’
58% of U.S. adults say they do not believe “we are living in the end times” – the destruction of the world as we know it.
www.pewresearch.org
September 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
That is 2 in 5! Every time I see these stats it breaks my brain how fractured America is.
New paper out with @dacuetovilla.bsky.social today at
@socprobsjournal.bsky.social -- in it we build a model for understanding how competing movement orgs make racial demands, using the debates in Minneapolis over public safety in 2021.
@socprobsjournal.bsky.social -- in it we build a model for understanding how competing movement orgs make racial demands, using the debates in Minneapolis over public safety in 2021.
September 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New paper out with @dacuetovilla.bsky.social today at
@socprobsjournal.bsky.social -- in it we build a model for understanding how competing movement orgs make racial demands, using the debates in Minneapolis over public safety in 2021.
@socprobsjournal.bsky.social -- in it we build a model for understanding how competing movement orgs make racial demands, using the debates in Minneapolis over public safety in 2021.
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Farm Aid 40, happening Sat @ U's Huntington Bank Stadium. Minnesota's 1st Farm Aid only happened bc Willie Nelson stood up for U of M Teamsters to help them get a fair contract + end their strike. Farm Aid 40 stands for good causes & good music. www.farmaid.org/festival/
Farm Aid 40 | Sept. 20 | Minneapolis | Tickets, Lineup, Info
Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Margo Price, Billy Strings and more artists come together for our annual festival.
www.farmaid.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Farm Aid 40, happening Sat @ U's Huntington Bank Stadium. Minnesota's 1st Farm Aid only happened bc Willie Nelson stood up for U of M Teamsters to help them get a fair contract + end their strike. Farm Aid 40 stands for good causes & good music. www.farmaid.org/festival/
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It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it
September 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it
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I am a professor because the McNair Scholars Program showed me what I was capable of. I will fight with everything I have to make sure others have the same opportunities.
McNair matters!
McNair matters!
Not surprisingly but still unfortunately, the McNair program is under attack.
I was not a beneficiary of the program but have participated in it as a mentor and speaker, and I have seen how it positively impacts the lives of its students.
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I was not a beneficiary of the program but have participated in it as a mentor and speaker, and I have seen how it positively impacts the lives of its students.
coenet.org/protect-the-...
Protect the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program - Council for Opportunity in Education
We’re stronger together. Call your Member of Congress, send an email, post on social media, host a phone party, invite your Member to campus, and report your actions. Every voice protects students and...
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September 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I am a professor because the McNair Scholars Program showed me what I was capable of. I will fight with everything I have to make sure others have the same opportunities.
McNair matters!
McNair matters!