Enobong Hannah Branch

Education and Interests

Enobong Hannah Branch (Anna) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.  She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Albany (2007) and her B.S. in Biology from Howard University (2002).  Her areas of specialty are race, racism, and inequality, intersectional theory (race, gender, and class), work and occupations, historical demography, and evaluation and applied research.  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 as well as the socio-historical context.  Her dissertation examined the persistence of black women in the working poor from 1860 to 1960 and explored the role of the intersection of race and gender in historically creating their multiply disadvantaged position compared to white men, white women and black men.  Her current research project argues for the importance of acknowledging the multiplicity of identity and looks at how race, gender, and history shaped the working poor.

Areas of Expertise:

Race, racism, and inequality, intersectional theory (race, gender, and class), work and occupations, historical demography, and evaluation and applied research

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications:

Branch, Enobong Hannah. 2007. "The Creation of Restricted Opportunity due to the
Intersection of Race & Sex: Black Women in the Bottom Class." Race, Gender &
Class 14(3-4): pp. 247-264.

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

Durgans, Kenneth B., Enobong Hannah Branch, Tara E. Durgans. Forthcoming.
"Introducing, Recruiting, and Retaining Diversity in Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics Disciplines." In Handbook on Diversity in Higher
Education.