Our People
Meet our People
The Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence at the University of Delaware brings together a diverse group of experts dedicated to understanding and combating gender-based violence. This page showcases the talented individuals who form the backbone of our center, including faculty fellows, post-doctoral scholars, graduate and undergraduate research assistants, and staff members. Our team comprises researchers, educators, and practitioners who contribute their unique expertise to advance the center's mission of studying, preventing, and addressing various forms of gender-based violence through scholarly work, advocacy, and community engagement. By highlighting our affiliated personnel, we aim to demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of our work and the collective effort required to tackle this critical social issue.
Directors
Co-Director
Angela J. Hattery is a professor of Women and Gender Studies and co-director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence at the University of Delaware.
She is the author of 11 books, including her most recent book, Gender, Power and Violence: Responding to Intimate Partner Violence in Society Today (2019), which followed on the heels of Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives are Surveilled and How to Work for Change (2018) as well as dozens of book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. Her forthcoming book, Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement, explores the ways in which racial antagonisms are exacerbated by the particular structures of solitary confinement.
Dr. Hattery serves as a consultant to agencies that seek to combat violence against women, and she regularly appears as an expert on these issues with major U.S. T.V. and radio news media. She teaches courses on race and gender inequality, families and methods.
Jennifer Naccarelli
Associate Chair
Co-Director, Center for Study & Prevention of GBV
Co-Director
Dr. Jennifer Naccarelli is an associate professor and the associate chair of Women and Gender Studies and the co-director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence at the University of Delaware.
Since 2011, she has served as the director of UD’s Domestic Violence Prevention and Services Program and implemented the first of its kind undergraduate advocacy training program. In this capacity she teaches, researches, publishes and designs curriculums and field experiences in the field of gender-based violence. Her work explores the intersection of feminist theory and practice through the integration of experiential learning within undergraduate coursework.
An advocate of community engaged scholarship and education, she builds and sustains partnerships with local and national agencies to support professional development of students and support the mission and needs of partner agencies.
In 2020, Drs. Hattery and Naccarelli were named the founding co-directors of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender Based Violence.
Core Members
Associate Professor, University of Delaware
Barbara Ley joined the Department of Communication in 2011, with a joint appointment in the Department of Women & Gender Studies. Her research and teaching focus on public understandings of and engagements with science, technology, and medicine. Her current research projects relate to digital technology, culture, and women's health; environmental health science, politics and prevention; and science, media and public opinion. Her 2009 book, From Pink to Green: Disease Prevention and the Environment Breast Cancer Movement, presents a cultural history of activists' efforts over the past two decades to push for increased scientific and public attention to environmental causes of breast cancer and disease prevention more generally . She has also published articles in journals such as Science Communication, Public Understanding of Science, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Chinese Journal of Communication. Ley received her Ph.D. from the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and she spent several years during graduate school working for environmental health policy organizations in Washington, D.C.
Professor, Women & Gender Studies, University of Delaware
Earl Smith, PhD, is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of American Ethnic Studies and Sociology at Wake Forest University, and is currently teaching classes in Sociology, African and African American Studies, and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Delaware.
Dr. Smith earned his Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut. His teaching and research focus on the sociology of sport, social stratification, criminal justice, and race. He is the author of 12 books, including his most recent book, Gender, Power and Violence (2019), and Policing Black Bodies (2018) as well as dozens of book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. He has written several books on the impact of social inequality on Black families. His book Race, Sport and the American Dream, which has been published in three editions, remains the only book on the market that examines structural racism in the Sport World. On a regular basis he is consulted as an expert by the New York Times, USA Today, and a variety of other news outlets. He teaches courses on social stratification, race and ethnicity, social problems, race and gender, and sexuality and sports.
