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Ange-Marie Hancock

Courtesy Professor, Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity

An internationally recognized scholar, Ange-Marie joins the Kirwan Institute from the University of Southern California (USC), where she was a Dean’s Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations and the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies. She also served as department chair of political science and international relations since 2020, and she directed the USC Institute for Intersectionality and Social Transformation and the university’s Center for leadership by Women of Color.

She has written numerous articles and books, which explore how the intersection of race, gender, class, sexuality, citizenship, and other categories of difference have an impact on policy. Her books include The Politics of Disgust and the Public Identity of the “Welfare Queen,” Solidarity Politics for Millennials: A Guide to Ending the Oppression Olympics, and Intersectionality: An Intellectual History. Among her many accomplishments, Ange-Marie conducted the original survey research and designed the business model for what would become the Women’s National Basketball Association.

Avoiding Paradigm Voyeurism and Embracing Intersectionality Stewardship: Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm “From Below”
Oxford Handbook of Engaged Methodological Pluralism
March 03, 2025

In this chapter published in the Oxford Handbook of Engaged Methodological Pluralism, Ange-Marie Hancock traces the impact of three well-established approaches to intersectionality that focus attention on power via a content analysis of 132 articles published in any of nine political science journals.