Andrea Leverentz

Andrea Leverentz is professor of Sociology and head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on incarceration and reentry, with special attention to people’s lived experiences and negotiations of gender, race, place and desistance. She is the author of The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma: How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance (2014) and Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry (2022). She is also co-editor of Beyond Recidivism: New Approaches to Research on Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration (2020).