Angela Jean Hattery

Angela Jean Hattery

Angela Jean Hattery

Affiliate Faculty

Gender, race,inequality, intersections of inequalities, intimate partner violence, incarceration, families

Professor Angela J. Hattery, George Mason University (BA Carleton College, PHD University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Professor of Women & Gender Studies and co-Director of the Center for the Study & Prevention of Gender-Based Violence at the University of Delaware. From 2011-2020 she was faculty and director of Women & Gender Studies at George Mason University.

Dr. Angela Hattery and Dr. Earl Smith are experts and available to speak on the recent conviction of disgraced Hollywood producer, Harvey Weinstein.

Co-authors of the recent book Way Down in the Hole: Race, Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement, Hattery and Smith interrogate the ways in which the structures of prisons serve to produce and reproduce white racial resentment.

Her research focuses on social stratification, gender, family, and race. She is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and books, including Gender, Power and Violence: Responding to Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence in Society Today (2019), The Social Dynamics of Family Violence which was released in a 3rd edition in September 2019,  Policing Black Bodies (January 2018), African American Families: Myths and Realities (2012/2016) , Prisoner Reentry and Social Capital (2010), Interracial Intimacies (2009); Interracial Relationships (2009); Intimate Partner Violence (2008); African American Families (2007) and Women, Work, and Family (2001).  She teaches classes in gender and sexuality, intersections of race, class and gender, gender based violence and feminist methods.  

Selected Publications

Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement (Rutgers, 2022).

The Social Dynamics of Family Violence (3rd Edition, Routledge 2020) 

Gender, Power and Violence (January 2019)

Policing Black Bodies (Rowman & Littlefield, January 2018)

African American Families: Myths and Realities (Rowman & Littlefield 2016)

Cultural Contradictions in the South (Mississippi Quarterly, 2011)

Prisoner Re-entry and Social Capital, the long road to reintegration (Lexington Books, 2010)

Interracial Intimacies:  An examination of powerful men and their relationships across the color line (Carolina Academic Press, 2009)

Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century (ed) (Carolina Academic Press, 2009)

Intimate Partner Violence (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008)

Race, Human Rights and Inequality (ed) (Rowman & Littlefield 2008)

African American Families (Sage, 2007)

Women, Work and Family:  Balancing and Weaving (Sage, 2001)