Angela Hattery

Angela Hattery

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

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Biography

​Angela J. HatteryÌýis 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, 91Ô­´´ (2024) and Sociologists for Women in Society 2019 Feminist Lecturer Award.

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Degrees

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

M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison

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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.Ìý

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.ÌýÌýFirst published online 10/6/2022.

Books and Book Chapters

  • Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith.Ìý 2019.ÌýGender, Power and Violence: Responding to Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence in Society Today.Ìý Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith.Ìý (2018).ÌýÌýPolicing the Black Body: How Black Lives are Surveilled and How to Work for Change.ÌýLanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith.Ìý (3rd Edition 2019/2nd Edition 2016/2012).The Social Dynamics of Family Violence. 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO:Ìý Westview Press. 3rd Edition: New York: Routledge.Ìý
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  • Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery.Ìý (2nd Edition 2014/October 2012).ÌýAfrican American Families: Myths and Realities.ÌýÌýLatham, MD:Ìý Rowman & Littlefield.Ìý
  • Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2013).ÌýInterracial Relationships in the 21st Century. 2nd Edition.Ìý Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith. (2010).ÌýPrisoner Reentry and Social Capital:ÌýÌýThe long journey to reintegration.Ìý Latham, MD:Ìý Lexington Books.Ìý
  • Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2009).ÌýInterracial Intimacies: An Examination of Powerful Men and Their Relationships Across the Color Line. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. Ìý
  • Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2009).ÌýInterracial Relationships in the 21st Century. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J.ÌýÌýIntimate Partner Violence.Ìý (2008).Ìý Rowman & Littlefield.Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J., David G. Embrick, and Earl Smith (eds).Ìý (2008).ÌýÌýRace, Human Rights and Inequalities.Ìý Lanham, MD. Rowman & Littlefield.Ìý Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith. (2007).ÌýAfrican American Families.ÌýThousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Hattery,ÌýAngela J.Ìý 2001.ÌýÌýWomen, Work, and Family:ÌýÌýBalancing and Weaving. Thousand Oaks, CA:Ìý 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."ÌýÌýPunishment & Society.Ìý
  • Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. 2020. "Bad Boy for Life:ÌýÌýHip-Hop Music, Race and Sport"ÌýSociology of Sport Journal. 37(3): Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J., Marissa Kiss and Earl Smith.Ìý 2019.Ìý "Always the Bridesmaid and Never the Bride: Women's and Minorities Coaching Opportunities in Intercollegiate Sports." ÌýJournal of Higher Education Athletics & InnovationÌýVolume 1, Issue 5 (2019) ÌýÌý
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  • Davis, Shannon N., and Angela Hattery. 2018. "Teaching Feminist Research Methods: A Comment and an Evaluation."ÌýJournal of Feminist ScholarshipÌý15 (Fall): 49-60. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs/vol15/iss15/5Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith.Ìý (2014).Ìý "Families of Incarcerated African American Men: The Impact on Mothers and Children."ÌýÌýJournal of Pan-African Studies.Ìý 7(6): 128-153.Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J., Timothy McGettigan and Earl Smith.Ìý (2014). "Racism: A Virulent but Curable Social Disease."ÌýÌýTheory in ActionÌý7(3)Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J.Ìý (2012). "They Play like Girls: Gender and Race (in) Equity in NCAA Sports."ÌýÌýWake Forest Law Review. 2(1):247-265.Ìý
  • Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2011). "Race and Ethnicity in the Contemporary Sports Organization."ÌýJournal of Sport Management, 25(2):107-117.Ìý
  • Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2011). "Race, Wrongful Conviction & Exoneration."ÌýJournal of African American Studies.Ìý 15(1):74-94.Ìý
  • Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2010). "African American Men and the Prison Industrial Complex."ÌýWestern Journal of Black Studies: 34(4): 387-398.Ìý
  • Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery. (2010). Cultural Contradictions in the South.ÌýMississippi Quarterly 63(1):ÌýÌý145-166Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J.Ìý (2010). SportsWorld as a Site of Violence Against Women.ÌýJournal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education.Ìý 4(2):Ìý 109-122.Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J.Ìý (2009).Ìý Sexual Abuse in Childhood and Adolescence and Intimate Partner Violence in Adulthood among African American and White Women.ÌýRace, Gender and Class.Ìý 16(1-2): 193-217.Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J. and Earl Smith (2008). The Prison Industrial Complex: A Tool for Racial Segregation and Labor Exploitation.ÌýRace, Gender and Class, 15(2), 79-97.Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J., Earl Smith and Ellen Staurowsky. (2008). They Play Like Girls:Ìý Gender
  • Equity in NCAA Sports.ÌýThe Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education.ÌýÌý1(3): 249–272.Ìý
  • 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.ÌýÌýJournal of Poverty Research.Ìý11(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.ÌýÌýSocieties Without Borders. 2(2):276-92.Ìý
  • Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery.Ìý (2006). The Prison Industrial Complex.ÌýSociation Today. 4(2).Ìý
  • Smith, Earl and Angela J. Hattery.Ìý (2006). Hey Stud:Ìý Race, Sex, and Sports.ÌýJournal of Sexuality and Culture. 10(2):3-32.Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J., and Earl Smith.Ìý (2005). William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and the Concepts of Race, Class and Gender.ÌýÌýSociation Today.Ìý (3)1.Ìý
  • Gendrich, Cynthia M. and Angela J. Hattery.Ìý (2004).Ìý Borderless Academe:Ìý 'Families in Crisis' andÌýA Lie of the Mind.ÌýÌýTheatre Topics.Ìý 14(1):293-315.Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J. (2003).Ìý Sleeping in the Box, Thinking Outside the Box:Ìý Student reflections on innovative pedagogical tools for teaching about and promoting a greater understanding of social class inequality among undergraduates.ÌýÌýTeaching SociologyÌý31(4):412-427.Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J.Ìý (2001).Ìý Tag-Team Parenting:Ìý Costs and benefits of utilizing non-overlapping shift work patterns in families with young children.ÌýÌýFamilies in Society. 82(4):419-427.Ìý
  • Hattery, Angela J. and Emily W.Ìý Kane.Ìý 1995Ìý Men's and Women's Perceptions of Non-Consensual Sexual Intercourse.ÌýÌýSex RolesÌý33:785-802.
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Recent Publications

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.Ìý The book, tentatively entitledÌýWay Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the ReproductionÌýof Racial Ideologies in Solitary ConfinementÌýis under contract with Rutgers University Press.

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