Michael Walker

Michael L. Walker earned his PhD in 2014 from the University of California–Riverside. In 2017 he joined the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities where he is the Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts in the Department of Sociology. He is the author of Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail which won the 2022 C. Wright Mills Book Award and the Charles H. Cooley Award for Best Recent Book. Walker’s research focuses on social interaction, social exchange, punishment, identities, time, and race relations. His current project is a book length examination of the socioemotional landscape of law enforcement work.