She is a faculty affiliate with OU’s Center for Law, Justice and Culture. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014. Dr. Kaufman’s research areas cover political sociology (especially citizenship), criminology and penology, law & society, and qualitative methods. Her research broadly examines institutional arrangements that facilitate and preclude social inclusion. She has a substantive interest in several social problems: prisoner reentry, women’s incarceration, faith-based treatment, and environmental racism. Her dissertation focused on the process of incorporation of formerly incarcerated women and men as citizens through policy and through work in the civic sector.