Sarah Jobe

Co-Director of Prison Studies

The Rev. Dr. Sarah Jobe is the Co-Director of Prison Studies at Duke Divinity School where she served as the Founding Director of Project TURN, Duke’s in-prison education program. Sarah has 15 years of experience as a prison educator and prison chaplain, and her academic work at the intersection of theology and carceral studies can be found in Sojourners, Christian Century, The Journal of Reformed Theology, Political Theology, Religions, and The Journal of Theological Studies. Her book No Godforsaken Place: Prison Chaplaincy, Karl Barth, and Practicing Life in Prison will be released in September 2025 in the T&T Clark Studies in Social Ethics, Ethnography, and Theologies series.