Angela Hattery

Women & Gender Studies

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Angela Hattery

Professor
Co-Director, Center for Study & Prevention of GBV

hatterya@udel.edu

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Biography

Angela J. Hattery is the author of 12 books. Her most recent, 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. She is also the author of Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives are Surveilled and How to Work for Change (2022) and Gender, Power and Violence: Responding to Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence in Society Today. She has authored more than 60 book chapters and peer reviewed journal articles. She has won numerous awards, including the Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Delaware (2024) and Sociologists for Women in Society 2019 Feminist Lecturer Award.

Degrees

B.A. Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota (Sociology and Anthropology)

M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison

Publications

Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith. (2023). Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement. Rutgers University Press.

Hattery, A. J. (2022). Feminist Lecture: (Re) Imagining Gender-Based Violence as a Strategy for Enforcing Institutional Segregation and Reproducing Structural Inequalities. Gender & Society, 36(6):789-812. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432221128665

Freetly Porter, E., Mendoza, M.P., Deng,M., Horwitz, S.D., Soltys, M.A., & Hattery, A.J.. (2024). Institutional Betrayal and Race in the Civil Legal System: A Latent Class Analysis with Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence. Race & Justice. p1-24

Mirance, K., Foltz, K. E., Hattery, A. J., Kiss, M., & Smith, E. (2024). Theorizing Feminist Abolitionist Approaches to Gender-Based Violence: A Descriptive Case Study of Gender-Based Violence in SportsWorld. Gender & Society, 0(0).

Monterrosa, Allison and Angela J. Hattery. (2022). Mapping Coercive Violence. Journal of Violence Against Women. 29(9): 1743–1763. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012221125499 First published online 10/6/2022.

Books and Book Chapters

Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith. 2019. Gender, Power and Violence: Responding to Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence in Society Today. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith. (2018). Policing the Black Body: How Black Lives are Surveilled and How to Work for Change. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith. (3rd Edition 2019/2nd Edition 2016/2012).The Social Dynamics of Family Violence. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 3rd Edition: New York: Routledge.

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Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2nd Edition 2014/October 2012). African American Families: Myths and Realities. Latham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2013). Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century. 2nd Edition. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith. (2010). Prisoner Reentry and Social Capital: The long journey to reintegration. Latham, MD: Lexington Books.
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2009). Interracial Intimacies: An Examination of Powerful Men and Their Relationships Across the Color Line. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2009). Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Hattery, Angela J. Intimate Partner Violence. (2008). Rowman & Littlefield.
Hattery, Angela J., David G. Embrick, and Earl Smith (eds). (2008). Race, Human Rights and Inequalities. Lanham, MD. Rowman & Littlefield.
Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith. (2007). African American Families. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Hattery, Angela J. 2001. Women, Work, and Family: Balancing and Weaving. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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Journal Articles

Rudes, Danielle, Shannon Portillo, Shannon Magnusson and Angela Hattery. Forthcoming. "Sex Logics:Negotiating the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Against Its' Administrative, Safety, and Cultural Burdens." Punishment & Society.
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. 2020. "Bad Boy for Life: Hip-Hop Music, Race and Sport" Sociology of Sport Journal. 37(3):
Hattery, Angela J., Marissa Kiss and Earl Smith. 2019. "Always the Bridesmaid and Never the Bride: Women's and Minorities Coaching Opportunities in Intercollegiate Sports." Journal of Higher Education Athletics & Innovation Volume 1, Issue 5 (2019) https://journals.shareok.org/jheai/issue/current

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Davis, Shannon N., and Angela Hattery. 2018. "Teaching Feminist Research Methods: A Comment and an Evaluation." Journal of Feminist Scholarship 15 (Fall): 49-60. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs/vol15/iss15/5
Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith. (2014). "Families of Incarcerated African American Men: The Impact on Mothers and Children." Journal of Pan-African Studies. 7(6): 128-153.
Hattery, Angela J., Timothy McGettigan and Earl Smith. (2014). "Racism: A Virulent but Curable Social Disease." Theory in Action 7(3)
Hattery, Angela J. (2012). "They Play like Girls: Gender and Race (in) Equity in NCAA Sports." Wake Forest Law Review. 2(1):247-265.
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2011). "Race and Ethnicity in the Contemporary Sports Organization." Journal of Sport Management, 25(2):107-117.
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2011). "Race, Wrongful Conviction & Exoneration." Journal of African American Studies. 15(1):74-94.
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2010). "African American Men and the Prison Industrial Complex." Western Journal of Black Studies: 34(4): 387-398.
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2010). Cultural Contradictions in the South. Mississippi Quarterly 63(1): 145-166
Hattery, Angela J. (2010). SportsWorld as a Site of Violence Against Women. Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education. 4(2): 109-122.
Hattery, Angela J. (2009). Sexual Abuse in Childhood and Adolescence and Intimate Partner Violence in Adulthood among African American and White Women. Race, Gender and Class. 16(1-2): 193-217.
Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith (2008). The Prison Industrial Complex: A Tool for Racial Segregation and Labor Exploitation. Race, Gender and Class, 15(2), 79-97.
Hattery, Angela J., Earl Smith and Ellen Staurowsky. (2008). They Play Like Girls: Gender
Equity in NCAA Sports. The Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education. 1(3): 249–272.
Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith. (2007) Social Stratification in the New/Old South: The Influences of Racial Segregation on Social Class in the Deep South. Journal of Poverty Research. 11(1): 55-81.
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2007). If We Build It They Will Come: The Relationship Between Private Prisons, Incarceration Rates, and Prison Industries in the US. Societies Without Borders. 2(2):276-92.
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2006). The Prison Industrial Complex. Sociation Today. 4(2).
Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2006). Hey Stud: Race, Sex, and Sports. Journal of Sexuality and Culture. 10(2):3-32.
Hattery, Angela J., and Earl Smith. (2005). William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and the Concepts of Race, Class and Gender. Sociation Today. (3)1.
Gendrich, Cynthia M. and Angela J. Hattery. (2004). Borderless Academe: 'Families in Crisis' and A Lie of the Mind. Theatre Topics. 14(1):293-315.
Hattery, Angela J. (2003). Sleeping in the Box, Thinking Outside the Box: Student reflections on innovative pedagogical tools for teaching about and promoting a greater understanding of social class inequality among undergraduates. Teaching Sociology 31(4):412-427.
Hattery, Angela J. (2001). Tag-Team Parenting: Costs and benefits of utilizing non-overlapping shift work patterns in families with young children. Families in Society. 82(4):419-427.
Hattery, Angela J. and Emily W. Kane. 1995 Men's and Women's Perceptions of Non-Consensual Sexual Intercourse. Sex Roles 33:785-802.

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Current Projects

Along with Dr. Earl Smith, Dr. Hattery is currently completing work on a three-year project examining the living and working conditions in solitary confinement units in a state prison system. The project involved nearly 100 interviews with inmates and staff living and working in solitary confinement as well as ethnographic observations. The book, tentatively entitled Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement is under contract with Rutgers University Press.

Media mentions

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October 28, 2024 | Written by Margo McDonough

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November 03, 2023 | Written by Hilary Douwes

The fight against gender-based violence is a multi-faceted and complex issue. So when the organizers of a recent national conference about the topic held at the University of Delaware started planning the event, they intentionally took an interdisciplinary approach.