Dr. Enobong Hannah Branch
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Assistant Professor of Sociology

University of Massachusetts- Amherst

Enobong Hannah Branch (Anna) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology 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.  She is the author of "The Creation of Restricted Opportunity due to the Intersection of Race & Sex: Black Women in the Bottom Class," published in Race, Gender & Class in 2007, and she is working on a book called Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black
Women to Devalued Work.  Her research focuses on the heterogeneity of the black experience created by the intersection of gender, nationality, citizenship, and economic class as well as the socio-historical context.