SADRI

Enobong Hannah (Anna) Branch is an assistant professor in the Departent of Sociology. She is also serving as Interim Associate Director for SADRI during spring 2012. Her research focus lies primarily in the study of Blacks contemporarily and historically. Dr. Branch is interested in the heterogeneity of the Black experience created by the intersection of gender, nationality, citizenship and economic class. Her book, Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work, forthcoming from Rutgers University Press, provides an overview of the historical evolution of Black women’s work and the social-economic structures that have located them in particular and devalued places in the U.S. labor market. Her interest in computer science/information technology arose due to the similarities with Black women’s historical exclusion from desirable jobs. A set of racist and deeply sexist assumptions existed as to why they were not competent to enter fields, and their marginalization prevented them from challenging the stereotypes. Her current research investigates the ways in which race and gender influence the entry and persistence of women and minorities in information technology.

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest: Social Inequalities (Race, Gender and Class), Evaluation and Applied Research, Historical Demography, Work and Occupations

Current Grants:

2010-12. Mellon Mutual Mentoring Team Grant

Recent Grants:

2010-11. NSF (Research Supplement to BPC-AE: Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education [CAITE]): Understanding Women's Performance and Persistence in Information Technology. Project Lead Investigator. PI: W. Richards Adrion

2008-10. Andrew Mellon Foundation. Mutual Mentoring Individual Grant. With David Cort, Andrew Papachristos, Wenona Rymond-Richmond, Amy Schalet, and Melissa Wooten.

2009-10. Coalition to Diversify Computing. Addressing the Shrinking Pipeline

2008. CSBS Research Grant. What’s Wrong with the Pipeline?

Selected Publications and Work in Progress:

“Suited for Service: Racialized Rationalizations for the Changing Ideal of the Domestic Servant from the 19th to the early 20th Century.” Social Science History, forthcoming. With Melissa Wooten.

"Regional Convergence in Low-Wage Work and Earnings, 1970-2000." Sociological Perspectives 54:569-92, 2012. With Caroline Hanley.

"Introducing, Recruiting, and Retaining Diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Disciplines." In Handbook on Diversity in Higher Education, D. 
Sandhu, B. Hudson & M. Taylor-Archer (eds.). New York: Nova Science Publishers, forthcoming. With Kenneth B. Durgans and Tara E. Durgans.

Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2011. 

“Redefining Whiteness: Who is White and Does it Matter?” In Racism in Post-Race America:
New Theories, New Directions. Chapel Hill, NC: Social Forces, 2008. With Hayward Derrick Horton, Lindsay Hixson and Edelmira Reynoso.

“The Creation of Restricted Opportunity due to the Intersection of Race & Sex: Black Women in the Bottom Class.” Race, Gender & Class 14:247-64, 2007.

 

 

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