Research

My research explores the historical roots and contemporary underpinnings of racial and gender inequality examining how it shapes access to and the experience of work today.

Anna Branch - NAS Talk
National Academies Workshop on the Impacts of Sexual Harassment in Academia, June 20, 2017. Irvine, CA.

Books

Branch, Enobong Hannah and Caroline Hanley. 2022. Work in Black and White: Striving for the American Dream. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

Branch, Enobong Hannah and Christina Jackson. 2020. Black in America: The Paradox of the Color Line. London: Polity Press.

Branch, Enobong Hannah (ed.). 2016. Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science: Reconsidering the Pipeline. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

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

“First Do No Harm: Eugenics, Medicine, and Devaluing Black Life.” Center for Research on People of Color Anti-Racism Speaker Series – November 9, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Renski, Henry, Laurel Smith-Doerr, Tiamba Wilkerson, Shannon C. Roberts, Shlomo Zilberstein, and Enobong Hannah Branch. 2020. “Racial Equity and the Future of Work.” Technology, Architecture+Design 4(1): 17-22.

Branch, Enobong Hannah. 2018. “Racism, Sexism, and the Constraints on Black Women’s Labor in 1920.” Research in the Sociology of Work 32: 91-112.

Branch, Enobong Hannah and Caroline Hanley. 2017. “A Racial-Gender Lens on Precarious Nonstandard Employment.” Research in the Sociology of Work 31: 183-213.

“Gender Salience and Racial Frames, Potholes for Women in Science: Understanding the Context Before and the Potential Consequences of Sexual Harassment.” Microsoft Research Lab – New England Colloquium Research Talk – July 19, 2017

Alegria, Sharla and Enobong Hannah Branch. 2015. “Causes and Consequences of Inequality in the STEM: Diversity and its Discontents.” International Journal of Gender, Science, and Technology 7(3): 321-342.

Branch, Enobong Hannah and Caroline Hanley. 2014. “Upgraded to Bad Jobs: Low-wage Black Women’s Relative Status Since 1970.” The Sociological Quarterly 55(2): 366-395.

Branch, Enobong Hannah and Mary Larue Scherer*. 2013. “Mapping the Intersections in the Resurgence of the Culture of Poverty.” Race, Gender, & Class 20(3-4): 346-358.

Branch, Enobong Hannah and Caroline Hanley. 2013. “Interrogating Claims of Progress for Black Women since 1970.” Journal of Black Studies 44(2): 203-226.

Wooten, Melissa and Enobong Hannah Branch. 2012. “Defining Appropriate Labor: Race, Gender, and the Idealization of Black Women in Domestic Service.” Race, Gender, & Class 19(3-4):292-308.

Branch, Enobong Hannah and Melissa Wooten.2012. “Suited for Service: Racialized Rationalizations for the Ideal of the Domestic Servant from the Nineteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century.” Social Science History 36(2): 169-189.

Branch, Enobong Hannah and Caroline Hanley. 2011. “Regional Convergence in Low-Wage Work and Earnings, 1970-2000.” Sociological Perspectives 54(4): 569-592.

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): 247-264.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

Roberts, Shannon C., Laurel Smith-Doerr, Shlomo Zilberstein, Henry Renski, Enobong Hannah Branch, and Tiamba Wilkerson. 2019. “Automation, Work, and Racial Equity.” Pp. 191-213 in Advancing Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Through Human Systems Engineering, Rod D. Roscoe, Erin K. Chiou, and Abigail R. Wooldridge, editors. New York: CRC Press winner of the “Outstanding Academic Title” recognition by Choice for the 2020 OAT Awards.

Understanding Emerging Technologies, Racial Equity, and the Future of Work
Workshop Sponsored by NSF Human-Technology Frontiers (HTF)
April 5 – 6, 2018

Branch, Enobong Hannah. 2016. “Racialized Family Ideals: Breadwinning, Domesticity, and the Negotiation of Insecurity.” Pp. 179-201 in Beyond the Cubicle: Insecurity Culture and the Flexible Self, Allison Pugh, editor. New York: Oxford University Press.

Branch, Enobong Hannah and Sharla Alegria. 2016. “Gendered Responses to Failure in   Undergraduate Computing: Evidence, Contradictions, and New Directions.” Pp. 3-20 in      Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science: Reconsidering the Pipeline, Enobong Hannah  Branch, editor. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

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.

Opening lecture, “Centering the Black Body” at Disrupting Health Disparities: Imagining a Just Racial Future External Expert Conference, August 17, 2022. Black Bodies, Black Health Project, Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, Rutgers University funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Public Engagement

Free-ish since 1865: Juneteenth is a Call to Fight for Freedom. NJ.com Opinion. June 14, 2022

After the Buffalo Shooting Don’t Choose a Comfortable Silence. NJ.com Opinion. May 16, 2022.

A Black Mother’s Burden. NJ.com Opinion. September 12, 2021