- Professor
- Cowles Chair for the Study of Public Service
Office: 245 Humphrey Center
Phone: 612-626-9865
E-mail: jbsoss@umn.edu
http://umn.edu/~jbsoss
Areas of expertise: welfare reform; public service; organization and governance of social policy; politics of inequality and poverty; role of race, class, and gender in public affairs
Joe Soss is the inaugural Cowles Chair for the Study of Public Service, a leading scholar on the reformed U.S. welfare system who has studied and written extensively on issues surrounding race in America.
Soss is the author of Unwanted Claims: The Politics of Participation in the U.S. Welfare System (University of Michigan Press, 2000), co-editor of Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform (University of Michigan Press, 2003), co-editor of Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality (Russell Sage Foundation, 2007), and author or co-author of numerous scholarly articles.
Soss received his master's and doctoral degrees in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he previously taught and also worked with the Institute for Research on Poverty. His research explores the politics of policy organization and public management, focusing on public policies that govern the life conditions, behaviors, and statuses of socially marginal groups.
Courses taught for the Humphrey Institute
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Fall 2007
PA 5490 - Topics in Social Policy
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