Angela Hattery

Angela Hattery is a Professor at the University of Delaware, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Women & Gender Studies. She co-directs the Center for the Study & Prevention of Gender-Based Violence, focusing on systemic inequities in policing, prisons, and sports. Her work interrogates racial ideologies, solitary confinement, and institutional betrayal.

• B.A. from Carleton College
• M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison

Her research spans feminist abolitionism, gender-based violence in SportsWorld, and intersections of race, class, and gender in carceral systems. Recent publications analyze institutional failures in addressing intimate partner violence and the criminalization of protests like Kaepernick's kneeling.

She has authored 12 books and over 60 peer-reviewed works, including Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement (2023) and Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives are Surveilled and How to Work for Change (2022). Awards include the University of Delaware's Excellence in Teaching Award (2024) and Sociologists for Women in Society's Feminist Lecturer Award (2019).

• Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Delaware (2024)
• Sociologists for Women in Society 2019 Feminist Lecturer Award