Lucius Couloute received his PhD in sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work largely examines the multiple causes and consequences of mass criminalization and his recent pieces examine: unemployment and housing insecurity among people with criminal records, the racist roots of mass incarceration, the organizational production of inequality, reentry-related exclusions, and meaning-making among criminalized people.

Dr. Couloute’s current projects examine direct cash transfers among people with felony records, the experiences of Black women with criminalized partners, the economic exploitation of criminalized people, and identification-attainment among those leaving prisons.  

Dr. Couloute incorporates explicitly anti-racist, afro-futuristic, interdisciplinary, and intersectional frameworks in all of his classes. Dr. Couloute’s goal in the classroom is to encourage students to think critically about how the world works, how it ought to work, and how we might bring about change. This approach challenges students to unlearn dominant myths and to question taken-for-granted ideas about race, class, gender, or any number of social constructions.

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