Jamie Harris
Senior Lecturer
Office: Bolton Hall 766
Phone: (414) 229-4629
E-mail: jmh@uwm.edu
Office Hours: M 3-4pm and by appointment
Degree: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Courses Taught at UWM:
SOCIOL 102: Social Problems in American Society
SOCIOL 261: Introduction to Statistical Thinking in Sociology
SOCIOL 307: Industrial Sociology
Research Interests:
Welfare Reform and Policy, Privatization, Government-nonprofit Relations, Community Organizations, Sociology of Space.
Teaching Interests:
Social Problems, Social Class and Inequality, Urbanism and Urbanization, Industrial Sociology, Sociology of Welfare, Political Sociology, Research Methods (qualitative and quantitative).
Recent Publications:
Lengyel, T. & Harris, J. 2005. "Connecting need and capacity: A study of Mental Health Services for Milwaukee County youth." Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Alliance for Children and Families.
Lengyel, T. & Harris, J. 2003. "Emerging issues for incarcerated parents and their children: Hawaii in national perspective." Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Alliance for Children and Families.
Harris, J. & Lengyel, T. 2002. "Ends that don’t meet: Employment under welfare reform in Welfare Policy through the Lens of Personal Experience." (Eds.) Tom Lengyel and David Campbell. (pp. 9-28). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Alliance for Children and Families.
Harris, J. & Zipp, J. 1999. "Black candidates, roll-off, and the black vote." Urban Affairs Review, 34(3): 489-498.
