Elizabeth Hoffmann

Promoted to Professor

Department of Sociology

hoffmanne@purdue.edu

Elizabeth Hoffmann completed both her PhD in sociology and Juris Doctor in Law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She joined Purdue’s faculty in 2001.

Hoffmann’s research examines how people understand and relate to the laws and rules that effect their daily lives. Her research is situated at the intersection of law-and-society and work-and-occupations and often emphasizes gender. Her scholarly work centers around four main projects: workplace dispute resolution; organizational responses to employment laws; historic legal consciousness; community mobilization and neighborhood activism.

She has published two books, 24 peer-review papers, and four peer-review book chapters. Hoffmann’s work has appeared in Law & Society Review, the top specialty journal in her area, and in Social Forces, a top general sociology journal.

Hoffmann continues to use innovative methods to shift extant discussion with her study of lactation-at-work laws – a multi-stage study built around multiple, matched actors: lactating workers, their managers, and their human resources representatives.