Dr. Vincent received her Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from the Louisiana Scholars' College, nested in Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She earned a Masters of Arts in Sociology and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Sociology from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her areas of specialization and research interests include crime and deviance and women and gender studies. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Deviant Behavior, Technology in Society, and Environmental Science and Policy. Currently, she teaches courses in Intro to Sociology, Sociology of Family, and Criminology. As a Renaissance Scholars faculty she has taught honors Sociology of the Family paired with World Literature.