For those interested in what her PhD research is actually about, I managed to track down one of her papers:
> Incarcerated Scholars, Qualitative Inquiry, and Subjugated Knowledge: The Value of Incarcerated and Post-Incarcerated Scholars in the Age of Mass Incarceration
> Incarcerated Scholars, Qualitative Inquiry, and Subjugated Knowledge: The Value of Incarcerated and Post-Incarcerated Scholars in the Age of Mass Incarceration
http://www.jpp.org/documents/back%20issues/JPP%2025-2.pdf
It looks like it's mostly about the Indiana Women's Prison History Project which she participated in.