Title
Associate Professor

Department
Dept of Sociology


Faculty URL
http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/christopher-muller

Email
cmuller@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
inequality, incarceration, historical sociology, social theory

Research Description
Christopher Muller studies?the political economy of incarceration in the United States from Reconstruction to the present. He?is particularly interested in how?agricultural labor markets,?migration, and?struggles over land and labor?have affected incarceration and racial and class inequality in incarceration. He?has also written on the causes and effects of environmental inequality and inequality in death from infectious disease.