Conference Papers and Panels

  • “Survival Art: Communal Strategies of Care and Survival During Long Term Incarceration.” Law and Society Association Conference. Puerto Rico. June 3, 2023.

  • “The Prison History Project at the Indiana Women’s Prison and Its Implications for Implementing STEM in Prisons.” AERA Conference. Chicago, IL. April 15, 2023.

  • “Rewriting U.S. History From Prison.” 2023 OAH Conference on American History. Los Angeles, CA. April 1, 2023.

  • “Rewriting Prison History From Prison.” Beyond the Bars, Columbia University. New York, NY. March 25, 2023.

  • “Ethics Grand Rounds: Improving Equity, Transparency, and Accountability of Research in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” Columbia University.  Virtual Panel. March 1, 2023.

  • “Health Disparities in the Incarcerated Population.” Indiana University School of Medicine. Virtual Panel. September 12, 2022.

  • “COVID-19 Behind Prison Walls: A Culture of Disposability.” Coalition to Decarcerate IL, University of Illinois at Chicago Criminology, Law, and Justice Department and Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy. Virtual Panel. January 26, 2022.

  • “The Women Transcending Oral History Research Project (OHRP).” The Oral History Research Project Panel + Stand Up Speak Out Film Festival. Virtual Panel. Marymount Community College. Virtual Panel. December 9, 2021.

  • “Art as Pathway: A Conversation with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project.” Closing Event for Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration and the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA) center for University of Alabama at Birmingham. Virtual Panel. December 7, 2021.

  • “Magdalene Laundries: The First Prison for Women in the United States.” Panel Title: Women, Religion, and U.S. Carceral History. American Academy of Religion Annual Conference. Virtual Panel. November 21, 2021.

  • “Lessons for Louisiana: Incarceration and Public History.” Indiana Women’s Prison History Project Film Debut. Words and Music Festival – New Orleans. Virtual Panel. November 19, 2021. 

  • “This is How we Do It...Answering the Question "What is To Be Done?": Black Women Addressing Intersection and Isms in Higher Education in Prison Programming.” 11th Annual National Council for Higher Education in Prison Conference. Denver, Colorado. November 13, 2021. 

  • “A Conversation with Michelle Daniel Jones.” Series Title; Historical Perspectives on State Gendered Violence in the United States. University of Oxford/ Rothermere American Institute. Virtual. October 20, 2021. 

  • “Code for America Fellowship Community of Practice Panel Discussion.” Code for America. Virtual Panel. September 27, 2021.

  • “Prison to Ph.D.” Howard University Social Justice Consortium. Howard University’s Social Justice Week. Virtual Panel. August 3, 2021.

  • “Medicine, Gender, and the Carceral State: Part Two – Advocacy Today: Conversations with the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project Scholars.” Indiana University School of Medicine Correctional Medicine Outreach Project. Virtual Panel, June 10, 2021.

  • “Medicine, Gender, and the Carceral State: Part One – Setting the Stage: Conversations with the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project Scholars.” Indiana University School of Medicine Correctional Medicine Outreach Project. Virtual Panel, June 3, 2021.

  • “Feminist communities of struggle within prisons: Interrogating the carceral state with ‘criminalized survivors.’” Inside-out Outside-in Corrections Interest Group. University of South AfricaDepartment of Psychology. Virtual Panel, May 11, 2021.

  • “The Oral History Project of Bedford-Illuminating Women’s Leadership.” Sustaining Connection: Community Building in Prisons Through Higher Education– Marymount Manhattan Conference. Virtual Panel, April 9, 2021.

  • “Art and Imagination Inside Prisons: Understanding and Responding to Mass Incarceration.” Human Rights Lab Pozen Center. Virtual Panel. April 6, 2021. 

  • “Lessons Learned: Part II - Barriers and Opportunities in On- and Off-Campus Housing.” Alliance for Higher Education in Prison. Virtual Panel, April 1, 2021.

  • “Pedagogies & Coalition Building.” Abolitionist Imaginaries Symposium, MoMA PS1, Virtual Panel, March 26, 2021.

  • “College Behind Bars: Access to Higher Education in Prison and Restoring TAP.” New York City Bar Association: Minorities in the Profession Committee. Virtual Panel. March 11, 2021.

  • “Flash Forward: Flash grants in Focus.” Shuttleworth Foundation Conference. Virtual Panel. February 24, 2021.

  • “Antiracism in Practice: The Politics of Prison.” The 4th International Shakespeare in Prisons Conference. Virtual Panel. February 23, 2021.

  • Respondent on Dr. Issacharoff’s paper, “Domestic Terror: Assata Shakur and the Birth of Rikers Women’s Facility.” Newcomb Institute 2021 Postdoctoral Symposium. Virtual Panel. February 5, 2021.

  • “Confined Observers Setting a STEM Research Agenda: Lessons from the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project.” STEM-OPS Interactive Research Workshops. Virtual Panel. February 4, 2021.

  • “What’s Happening with College Behind Bars.” Education Writers Association. Virtual Panel. December 3, 2020. 

  • “History of Pandemics in Prisons.”  SEICHE Center for Health and Justice at Yale. Virtual Panel.  December 2, 2020

  • “Constructing Our Future.” JAT Forum: Women in Prison in Indiana.” North United Methodist Church, Indianapolis. Virtual Panel. December 1, 2020.

  • “Rendering Justice: Point of Triangulation: Intersections of Identity.” Mural Arts Philadelphia. Virtual Panel. November 10, 2020.

  • “Strada Framework Webinar – Impact Coalition VP Framework Coalition Presentation.” United Negro College Fund/Strada Foundation. Virtual Webinar. November 6, 2020. 

  • “Survivors Justice Project Research Collective.” All-in-All Together Conference. UC Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation. Virtual Conference. October 23, 2020.

  • “Constructing Our Future.” Inside Out: Women in Reentry Forum. University of Iowa: Inside Out Reentry Community. Virtual Panel. October 22, 2020.

  • “COVID-19 and the Administration of Higher Education Programming.” National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions Conference. Virtual Panel. October 20, 2020.

  • “#EquityisJustice: Universal Eligibility and Pell Restoration.” #EquityisJustice Taskforce. Virtual Panel. October 14, 2020.

  • “The Carceral State and Education.” The Petey Greene Program. Virtual Panel. October 8, 2020.

  • “Pell Restoration and Racial Equity.” #EquityisJustice Taskforce. Virtual Panel. September 30, 2020.

  • “The University and the Prison.” Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration Conference. Oxford, Mississippi. December 5, 2019.

  • “Applying and Succeeding in Graduate School.” National Council for Higher Education in Prison. St. Louis, Missouri. November 16, 2019.

  • “Rewriting Local Histories of Slavery and Incarceration: A Dialogue between Two Prison History Projects.” National Council for Higher Education in Prison. St. Louis, Missouri. November 16, 2019.

  • “Epistemic Violence and the University.” American Studies Association Annual Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii. November 9, 2019.

  • “Human Rights in Practice: Building a Prison-to-School Pipeline.” Posen Family Center for Human Rights – University of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois. October 31, 2019.

  • “Indiana Women’s Prison History Project.” Indiana Studies Symposium: The Lost Histories of Indiana. Indiana University. Bloomington, Indiana. October 25, 2019.

  • “College in Prison: Pathways to Re-entry.” Grantmakers for Education Annual Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana. October 23, 2019.

  • “Supporting Incarcerated and Re-Entering Learners.” Lumina Foundation State Convening. Indianapolis, IN, July 11-12, 2019. 

  • “Educational Justice: Centering the Voices and Experiences of Incarcerated Individuals and Higher Education in Prison from the Student Lens Panel.” The Education Trust, Washington, DC, April 24, 2019.

  • “The Work of ‘Unfreedom’: Re-examining Women and the Carceral State in 19th-Century America.” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 5, 2019.

  • “Access to Higher Education and Mass Incarceration.” Outlaw(ed) Intellectuals: Critiquing Structures of Power From Within Colloquium. University of California Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, California, January 23, 2019.

  • “Magdalene Laundries: The First Prisons for Women’s Prisons in the United States.” Panel Title: Magdalene Laundries and Women’s Carceral Institutions. American Historical Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois, January 4, 2019.

  • “Privileging the Experiences of Scholars Incarcerated: Women, Prison, History.” Restoring Promise: Bringing the Past to the Present in Reform. Vera Institute for Justice. Montgomery, Alabama, November 13, 2018. 

  • “Restoring Promise: An Intergenerational Perspective.” Restoring Promise: Bringing the Past to the Present in Reform. Vera Institute for Justice. Montgomery, Alabama, November 13, 2018. 

  • “Critical Prison Studies Teach-In: An Organizer’s Toolkit for Opening the University to Post-Incarcerated People.” American Studies Association Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, November 10, 2018.

  • “Rewriting Prison History: What’s Being Done, How Your Program Can Participate, and What That’s a Good Idea.” National Council for Higher Education in Prison Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana, November 9, 2018. 

  • “Ending Discrimination in Higher Education Against Post-incarcerated Students and Employees.” National Council for Higher Education in Prison Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana, November 9, 2018. 

  • “Human Involved: Rehabilitation and Re-entry.” The Milwaukee Model: Envisioning the Role of Arts in Criminal Justice Reform. Milwaukee Art Museum and Marquette University. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 2, 2018. 

  • “Liberating the Voice through Improvisation.” Transformative Imaginations: Decarceration and Liberatory Future. Imagining America Conference. Chicago, Illinois, October 20, 2018.

  • “Incarcerated Women Construct a Future for Themselves – Constructing Our Future, Indianapolis, Indiana.” Transformative Imaginations: Decarceration and Liberatory Future. Imagining America Conference. Chicago, Illinois, October 19, 2018.

  • “Human Consequences.” MacArthur Foundation. Safety and Justice Challenge Network Conference. Chicago, Illinois, October 19, 2018. 

  • “Constructing Our Future.” National Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, Free Her Conference. Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 29, 2018. 

  • “How Legal and Social Collateral Consequences Create and Sustain Artificial Personhood.” National Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, Free Her Conference. Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 28, 2018. 

  • “Returning Citizens’ Views About Education, Reentry and Work.” Criminal Justice Research and Reform Working Group, Center for Advancing Opportunity. Gallup Building, Washington, DC, August 28-29, 2018.

  • “Bending Towards Justice?” New York Live Arts, Live Ideas 2018: Radical Vision, New York, New York, April 19, 2018. 

  • “Stories of Hope from Beyond the Razor Wire with Returned Citizens Theatre Troupe.” Shakespeare in Prisons Conference. The Old Globe Theater, San Diego, California, March 23, 2018. 

  • “Women in Prison and After Prison.” Center for Wrongful Convictions Spring Symposium – Celebrating the Fifth Anniversary of the Women’s Project. Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, March 16, 2018.

  • “The Past and Future of Prison Education at Harvard.” Beyond the Gates Conference. Harvard University, Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 6, 2018.

  • “Envisioning the End Incarceration for Women and Girls.” Beyond the Bars – Closing Jails and Prisons – Eight Annual Justice Conference. Columbia University Law School, New York, March 1, 2018.

  • “Women: Criminals or Survivors: The Unique Criminal Justice Pathways of Women and Girls.” The Kennedy Forum’s Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, January 16, 2018.

  • “Epistemic Injustice and the University.” Seventh National Conference on Higher Education in Prison. Sheraton Arlington, Arlington, Texas, November 2-5, 2017.

  • “The Big Set Back: Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions.” Indiana State University, Women’s History Month Colloquium. March 24, 2017. 

  • “From Debt to Debt: The Realities of the Post-Incarcerated.” American Studies Association Conference. Denver, Colorado, November 18, 2016.

  • “Epistemic Injustice, Subjugated Knowledge, and the Mechanics of Pedagogy: Inside the Incarcerated Student Experience.” Presented at the Sixth National Conference on Higher Education in Prison. Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee, November 5, 2016.

  • “Qualitative Inquiry, Mass Incarceration and History: Why the academy needs incarcerated and post-incarcerated scholars in the age of Mass Incarceration.” International Qualitative Inquiry Conference, University of Illinois, May 20, 2016.

  • “Rhoda Coffin and the Fallout of the Cult of Domesticity in Indiana’s Gilded Age.” Indiana Women’s Bicentennial History Conference, Hoosier Women at Work, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 26, 2016. 

  • “Subjugated Knowledges and Women’s Prison History.” Crossroads: The Future of Graduate History Education, Drew University, March, 11, 2016.

  • “Failing the Fallen: Sexual and Gendered Violence on Incarcerated Women in the Gilded Age.” American Historical Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia January 7, 2016. 

  • Panel discussion for American Historical Association conference, with Elizabeth Hinton (Harvard University), January 2016. 

  • Panel discussion for American Historical Association conference, with Alex Lichtenstein (Indiana University), January 2016.

  • Origins of the Indiana Women’s Prison and the Criminalized Sexuality of Incarcerated Women.” American Correctional Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 14, 2015.

  • “Sexual Violence is an Old Hat: Criminalized Sexuality of Incarcerated Women in Indiana in the Gilded Age.” Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest Annual Conference, June 12, 2015. 

  • “Magdalene Laundries: The First Prisons for Women in the USA.” Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Annual Conference, Anderson University, Anderson, Indiana Oct. 10, 2014. 

  • “Indiana's Own Magdalene Laundry.” Indiana Association of Historians Annual Conference, Bloomington Indiana, March 8, 2014. 

 Talks & keynote Addresses

  • “ASA's Beside Fire Chat: Make a World – Are Prisons Obsolete.”  American Studies Association. June 16, 2023. 

  • “Advocacy Across the Spectrum.” The Education Trust Fellowship. Virtual Presentation. February 23, 2023.

  • “Doing Research Within Carceral Systems: Privileging the Voices of Scholars Incarcerated and Navigating Insider/Outsider Status.” Women and Gender Studies Event - Clark University. Virtual Presentation. March 3, 2022.

  • “Rewriting History and the Effects of Agency and Research.” Community Conversations with the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project. Virtual Presentation. March 2, 2022.

  • “Human Rights Writing and Research Class.” University of Chicago. Virtual Presentation. October 29, 2021.

  • PSSC Future Fridays: Public Service Panel.” New York University Leadership Initiative/Global Awards. Virtual Presentation. June 25, 2021.

  • “When You Are The User.” People of Color Social Hour Code for America Summit/ NAVA. Virtual Presentation. May 13, 2021.

  • “Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions.” Maimonides Moot Court Competition Yom Iyyun. Virtual Presentation. February 21, 2021.

  • “Privileging the Experiences of Scholars Incarcerated: Indiana Women’s Prison History Project.” STEM-OPS Interactive Research Workshops. STEM-OPS NSF INCLUDES Alliance—2021 Virtual Convening. Virtual Panel. February 4, 2021.

  • “Indiana Women’s Prison History Project.” Teach-in at Hunter College – Instructor, Susan Rosenberg. Hunter College. Virtual. November 12, 2020.

  • “A Conversation with Kate Mogulescu and Michelle Daniel Jones.” Brooklyn Law School Center for Criminal Justice. September 28, 2020.

  • “Attica Lessons: Decarcerate During COVID-19: Virtual Conference.” The Sentencing Project. September 21, 2020.

  • “NYU Reads: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.” New York University Webinar. September 16, 2020.

  • “Tell Them We Are Not Monsters: A Preview.” Jamii: Purpose, Politics and Pedagogy Webinar. August 3, 2020.

  • “A Deeper Dive Conversation: Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration” Harlem Stage: Facebook Live. May 11, 2020. 

  • “Now is Not the Time to Rest: Mass Incarceration, Higher Education and Strategic Activism in the Liberal University.” National Council for Higher Education in Prison. St. Louis, Missouri. November 15, 2019.

  • “Epistemic Violence and the University.” Posen Family Center for Human Rights – University of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois. October 30, 2019.

  • “Point of Triangulation and the Weaponization of Stigma,” Abyssinian Baptist Church Restorative Ministry. October 17, 2019. 

  • “Evaluating Media Portrayals of System-Involved and Formerly System-Involved People.” National Council on Crime and Deviancy. June 24, 2019.

  • “The Real Act and Pell Grant Restoration.” Meetings with Indiana State Senators. Russell Sage Senate Building, Washington DC, May 28, 2019. 

  • “Sexual Violence is an Old Hat: Criminalized Sexuality of Incarcerated Women in Indiana in the Gilded Age.” #MeToo and Mass Incarceration: Sexual Violence against Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System.” New York Reentry Education Network Conference, Interchurch. New York, April 26, 2019.

  • “Privileging the Experiences of Scholars Incarcerated: Indiana Women’s Prison History Project” Yale University: Histories of the Carceral State Working Group, New Haven, Connecticut, April 17, 2019.

  • “Importance of a High-Quality Education.” Opening Plenary: Advancing an Opportunity: Message about Crime and Criminal Justice, State of Opportunity in America Summit 2019, Washington, DC, April 15, 2019.

  • “Privileging the Experiences of Scholars Incarcerated: Women, Prisons, and History.” SPEAR Conference: Tracing the Violence Conference, Princeton University, New Jersey, April 12, 2019.

  • “White House African-American Empowerment and Revitalization Summit.” Russell Sage Senate Building, Washington DC, March 19, 2019. 

  • “American Enterprise Institute’s Launch of “Education for Liberation.” American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC, March 19, 2019.

  • “Privileging the Experiences of Scholars Incarcerated: Women, Prisons, and History.” Building a Prison to School Pipeline in Indiana Conference. John H. Boner Center. Indianapolis, Indiana, December 1, 2018.

  • “Building Leadership Pathways to Freedom for Justice-Involved Women.” Art for Justice Convening. New Orleans, Louisiana, November 30, 2018.

  • “No Limits, No Boundaries.” NYU PEP Commencement Ceremony. Wallkill Correctional Facility, Wallkill, New York, October 29, 2018. 

  • “Prison Education.” The Petey Greene Program: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, October 15, 2018.

  • “The Body of the State” and scholars/students incarcerated at the Indiana women’s prison, Indianapolis, Indiana.” Jefferson Scholars Foundation: Forum for Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Charlottesville, Virginia, October 4, 2018.

  • “Faces of Women Imprisoned: Barriers for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women.” The Ladies of Hope Ministries and The Education Trust. Washington, DC, October 1, 2018.

  • “Taking a Hard Look at Heterotopia: the Danger of Creating Designated Spaces of Crisis and Deviance.” John Howard Association Annual Luncheon. Chicago, Illinois, September 27, 2018.

  • “The Big Set Back: Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions.” Pipeline to Prison Learning Tour. MCC Great Lakes and Center for Community Justice. South Bend, Indiana, August 6, 2018.

  • “Social Consequences of Criminal Convictions, Mass Criminalization and the Church.” College Mennonite Church. Goshen, Indiana, August 5, 2018.

  • “Imagining the Social in Artistic and Museum Practice.” Summer of Know Lecture Series on Mass Incarceration. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, July 10, 2018.

  • “Go Forth and Heal a Broken Community.” College and Community Fellowship, Interfaith Church, New York, New York, June 7, 2018.

  • Film Screening Talk Back and Panel Discussion for “The Grey Area.” Sponsored by Constructing Our Future, Project LIA, and Bellfound Farm. Circle City Industrial Complex, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 18, 2018.

  • “What’s In A Name. Ineligibility for Personhood and the Law.” Petey Green Program, Rikers Debate Project, and Teach for America. NYU Kimmel, New York, New York, April 25, 2018.

  • “Bending Towards Justice?” New York Live Arts, Live Ideas 2018: Radical Vision, New York, New York, April 19, 2018.

  • “Women, Incarceration, and Race: A Conversation with Michelle Jones and Joy James.” University of Massachusetts, Center for the Study of Humanities, Society and Culture, Boston, Massachusetts, April 17, 2018.

  • “Infrastructures of Imprisonment: Invisible Women and the Carceral State.” Tufts University, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Science, Technology and Society. Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 9, 2018.

  • “The Big Set Back: Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions.” Milano School Of International Affairs, Management, And Urban Policy, The New School, New York, New York, March 30, 2018.

  • “Mass Incarceration and the Challenges of Reentry.” Riverdale Country Middle School. Bronx, New York, March 13, 2018.

  • “The Big Set Back: Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: How Legal and Social Collateral Consequences Create and Sustain Artificial Personhood.” Michigan Journal of Race and Law Symposium “A More Human Dwelling Place.” University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 16 – 17, 2018.

  • “Barriers to Reentry: The Difference Between Legal and Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions.” Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project, Harvard School of Law, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 13, 2018.

  • “Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions.” Constructing Our Future: A Night of Inspiration. Presented by the Sagamore Institute. Indianapolis, Indiana, February 10, 2018.

  • “Women’s Prison History and Mass Incarceration.” Georgetown Day School. High School Students of Professor Aden Stinebrickner via Skype, Washington, DC, February 8, 2018.

  • “Experiences of women that have been incarcerated, how it has affected them, and current work.” Women Beyond the Bars: Conference on Mass Incarceration, New York University Silver School of Social Work, February 3, 2018.

  • “Indiana Women’s Prison History Project and Higher Education Models in Prisons” Vera Institute of Justice, New York, New York, December 13, 2017.

  • “Government Employee Project.” Session Title: Student Engagement in Public Policy. Presented at the Sixth National Conference on Higher Education in Prison Conference. Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee, November 4, 2016.

  • “Real Women Real Voices: Where Women Meet the Policy.” Presented at the American Law School Symposium, hosted by the National Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, April 22, 2016. 

  • “Post-Graduate Education in Prison,” presented to the National Conference on Higher Education in Prisons, Pittsburgh, PA, November 6, 2015.

  • “Social Death and the Stigma Attached to Labeling Incarcerated Men and Women” presented to the NAACP WIN Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 24, 2014.

 Reports & legal testimony

  • Co-editor of “Spotlight on Indiana: Barriers to Higher Education for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Students.” Final Report.  Lumina Foundation.  June 9, 2020.

  • “Government Employee Project – State of Indiana,” testimony presented live via videoconferencing before the Interim Study Committee on Corrections and the Criminal Code, Indiana Statehouse, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 27, 2015.