Sarah Allred

Sarah Allred (PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) is an associate professor of sociology. Her research on higher education in carceral settings involves a participatory approach, engaging people who are incarcerated as collaborators. She is an applied sociologist, conducting program evaluation across diverse settings and serving as an advisor for a prison-based academic program. Her teaching focuses on research methods, health, disability, and social inequality. 

Teaching Interests

• Sociology of Health, Sociology of Disability
• Sociology of the Family, Social Inequality
• Social Science Research Methods, Inside Out Prison Exchange Program courses (e.g., criminology)

Research Interests

• Research methods (e.g., attrition), program assessments, health and disability, prison education programs

Field Experience

• Floyd Against Drugs Coalition. Project Evaluator.
• Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program 

Selected Publications

• Allred, S. L., Boyd, C., & Perry, P. (2023). "Participant Concerns with Cocurricular Programs in Prison." Journal of Correctional Education, 74(2), 25-55.
• Allred, S. Boyd, C. Perry, P. 2019. “Participatory Evaluation in a Prison Education Program: Meaning & Community Building within Inside-Out Think Tanks,” Corrections: Policy, Practice, and Research. DOI: 10.1080/23774657.2019.1604193 
• Allred, Sarah L., Harrison, Lana D., and O'Connell, Daniel J. June 2013. "Self-Efficacy: An Important Aspect of Prison-Based Learning" The Prison Journal, vol. 93, 2: pp. 211-233.  
• Allred, Sarah L., Belche, Nathan, and Robinson, Todd. 2013. "Relational Learning and the Inside-Out Experience: A Pathway to Building Capacities, Transformative Perspectives, and a Deeper Understanding of Self, Community, and Others " Part V: Chapter 22 in Simone Weil Davis and Barbara Sherr Roswell (eds.) Turning Teaching Inside Out: A Pedagogy of Transformation for Community-Based Education. Palgrave.

Professional Associations

• Evaluation & Research Committee for Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program
• The Georgia Coalition for Higher Education in Prison (GACHEP)