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Description of research project:
This project investigates how formerly incarcerated Black women and their families navigate surveillance and punishment after prison. Drawing on in-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated Black women, their family members, their parole officers, and 11 months of participant observation, this project explores how formerly incarcerated women and their families resist surveillance and try to rebuild their lives after incarceration while parole officers and re-entry actors generate new logics that justify widening the net of surveillance and punishment.
Description of Work Assignment:
Responsibilities may include identifying and summarizing literature on state surveillance, the collateral consequences of incarceration, and prisoner re-entry; preliminary coding of interview transcripts using an established codebook; and weekly meetings with supervising graduate student. All work will be conducted remotely.
Supervising Faculty Member: Sandra Levitsky
Graduate Student: DeAnna Y. Smith
Contact information: deasmith@umich.edu
Average hours of work per week: 6-9 hours
Range of credit hours students can earn: 2-3 credit hours
Number of positions available: 1-2
