Victoria is a PhD candidate in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UMSL, with an anticipated graduation date of May 2025. She obtained a Bachelor of Science from Florida State University and a Master of Arts from the University of Missouri- Saint Louis. She is broadly interested in corrections, reentry, and punishment work. Her dissertation examines identity shifts within the correctional context. Victoria's dissertation, which has been supported by an NSF Law and Science Dissertation grant, as well as the Charles G. Huber, Jr. Endowed Dissertation Fellowship and the Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice, looks at how the tensions between rehabilitative and punitive goals influence social roles and identities in prison. She does this through ethnographic observations of people who are currently incarcerated in a men's prison and engaged in a prison theater program. In essence, Victoria is looking at Goffman's front and back stages through a literal theater production and how this might influence identity construction in carceral spaces. She finds that the kinds of social roles people have access to shape their identities, and argues that this is important for how we understand desistance. This could change how we view in-prison programming and prison culture. Her work has appeared in journals such as Justice Quarterly and The Journal for Contemporary Criminal Justice.