Stephen Wulff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Tennessee (UT). He recently completed his PhD in sociology at the University of Minnesota. Professor Wulff’s research interests include policing, critical criminology, punishment, law and society, and social movements. His dissertation, “Police Misconduct, Monetary Sanctions, and Insurance Models in the Modern Police Accountability Era,” investigated existing and potential insurance models to increase police accountability and reduce misconduct.

His work has been published in Law & Social Inquiry (official journal of the American Bar Foundation), the International Journal of Criminology & Sociology, and The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements. His sole-authored article recently published in Law & Social Inquiry analyzes the innovative but ultimately unsuccessful 2016 ballot campaign of the Committee for Professional Policing, a police accountability group in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which attempted to make Minneapolis the first city nationwide to require police to carry professional liability insurance. Currently, he is co-authoring a report with Arizona State University’s Center for Work and Democracy on the financial costs stemming from George Floyd’s murder.

At UT, Professor Wulff looks forward to teaching courses in the Sociology Department’s Criminology and Criminal Justice Concentration, including Criminology, Criminal Justice, Policing America, Punishment and Society, and Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice. He is also excited to teach graduate-level courses such as Foundations of Criminology, Criminal Justice Theories, and Law and Society.

In his free time, he enjoys playing basketball, guitar, and attending concerts.

For more information, visit his academic website at http://www.StephenWulff.net .