Angela Hattery, Ph.D.

Angela J. Hattery, is Professor of the Women & 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 Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives are Surveilled and How to Work for Change (2021) Gender, Power and Violence: Responding to Intimate Partner Violence in Society Today (2019) as well as dozens of book chapters and peer reviewed articles. Her forthcoming book (number 12) is entitled 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 serves as a consultant to agencies that seek to combat violence against women, she testifies as an expert witness in domestic violence cases, and she regularly comments in the local, regional and national news media on issues related to gender-based violence and the criminal legal system. At the University of Delaware she teaches courses on race and gender inequality, families and methods.

Sub-specialties:
Domestic Violence in Black Families
Solitary confinement: the experiences of the incarcerated and those who work there
The impact of mass incarceration on Black families
Gender-Based violence and sports
Gender-Based violence and the Catholic Church
Gender-Based violence and the military
Gender-Based violence and politics