Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro

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- Bookclub PodcastAn audio bookclub. Our geeks read and discuss new and classic works in the policy field – fictional and non. Social justice, tech, politics, policy … we cover it all and more. We want to get at the heart of what it means to be a community member in America. Listen on our site here, or subscribe at ApplePodcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Get Involved: Join the conversation about each episode on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. Or email us at [email protected].
- LA HashtagsLos Angeles Hashtags Itself, began as a six-episode, limited series podcast, featuring various Angeleno agencies leading the critical trend of using digital media for urban and social development. Season 3, LA Hashtags Herself, will focus on a few of the many women who aim to leave Los Angeles a better place. If you like art, community, cultural journalism, real estate, transportation, and tech generally, we hope you will find something worth hearing. Listen to the individual posts on our site here, or subscribe at iTunes, Soundcloud, or Google Play!
- Our American DiscourseGreat knowledge need not wither on the academic vine. We bring you the smartest minds from the University of Southern California and beyond, wrestling with the defining challenges of our time. In their research, we find wisdom. In their voice, hope. Hosted by Anthony W. Orlando, Our American Discourse reminds us that we’re never too different to learn from each other, nor too divided to find common ground. Listen to the individual podcasts below or subscribe on Google Play, iTunes, or Soundcloud. But most of all, keep the conversation going. Tell us what you thought. Tell others what you heard. Keep our American discourse alive—and healthy.
- The Policy PaycheckCreated and hosted by Serena Allen, a junior studying public policy, with an emphasis on advanced policy analysis, The Policy Paycheck is a nonpartisan podcast dedicated to simplifying the economic side of high profile policies. Often, we only get one side of the coin regarding policy matters. This podcast reaches beyond these boundaries to allow listeners to think critically on political matters that impact their daily lives.
- P.S. You’re InterestingOur newest podcast series is where we discuss new research in Political Science with stars in the field. We hope to bring the research to life. Host Jeffery A. Jenkins hopes to share innovations and implications of research, through conversation and interviews with invited guests. To listen to individual episodes use the player on the episode, or stream & subscribe on your favorite podcasting app – just search “P.S. You’re Interesting” or “usc bedrosian.” Email us at [email protected] Twitter: @BedrosianCenter, @jaj7d
- Policy at the Playhouse“All art is political in the sense that it serves someone’s politics.” – August Wilson Theatre can bolster the status quo. It can foment revolution. It can make us question our identities and the identities of those around us. It makes us yearn and strive. It gives us closure. It leaves us wanting more. Theatre is a weapon. It holds up a mirror. It is politics. Theatre dissolves the distance between people. Theatre exposes humanity and inhumanity. Theatre connects us. The Policy at the Playhouse podcast features conversations about how art, theater in particular, is an integral part of our civic lives allowing us to question and inform our conceptions of citizenship and community. This podcast continues our ongoing efforts to bring policy and its impact into the public discourse, recognizing that citizens inform themselves in many different arenas. Listen to individual episodes on the player above, the Policy at the Playhouse page, or subscribe at iTunes, Soundcloud, or Google Play.
- Reel ReviewReel Review is a film podcast dedicated to thinking about how the media we consume contributes to the public good. Hosted by Erroll Southers, the podcast focuses on visual storytelling, diversity, and the public good. This podcast is sponsored by Price Video Services and USC Bedrosian Center, and continues our ongoing efforts to bring policy and its impact into the public discourse. Download or subscribe at ApplePodcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Get Involved: Join the conversation about each episode on Twitter or Facebook, & Instagram, or email us at [email protected].
- Unfair Nation by (In)equality Fellow, Ehsan Zaffar
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Dean’s Professor of Gender Studies and Professor of Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro is Dean’s Professor and Chair of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California and a globally recognized scholar of intersectionality theory, the world’s leading analytical framework for analyzing and resolving inequality. She has written numerous articles and three books on the intersections of categories of difference like race, gender, class, sexuality and citizenship and their impact on policy: the award-winning The Politics of Disgust and the Public Identity of the “Welfare Queen,” (2004), Solidarity Politics for Millennials: A Guide to Ending the Oppression Olympics (2011) and Intersectionality: An Intellectual History (2016). She is hard at work on her fourth book, African American Political Thought: Contestation and Change, a “scope and vision” book that covers more than 250 years of African American political thought.

In 1993, under the mentorship of NBA Hall of Famer Tom “Satch” Sanders, Hancock Alfaro conducted the original survey research and designed the business model for the Women’s National Basketball Association. The only women’s professional basketball league to succeed in the United States, the WNBA began its 21^st season in May 2017. Her recent collaborative work includes service on the Board of the Liberty Hill Foundation and work with both Hispanas Organized for Political Empowerment (HOPE) and the Los Angeles African American Women’s Public Policy Institute (LAAAWPPI).

The applied forms of her research focus racial and gender equity at the local and regional levels; she currently directs the USC Center for Feminist Research, the USC Dornsife Center for Leadership by Women of Color, and USC-IIST, the USC Institute for Intersectionality & Social Transformation. Her current work includes new research projects on asylum requests by survivors of domestic violence, empirical applications of intersectionality, and The Kamala Harris Project, a collective of scholars dedicated to tracking all aspects of the first woman of color vice president in U.S. history.

Expertise

American Politics, Political Theory, Public Policy Race/Ethnic Politics, Gender Politics, Intersectionality

Publications

Book
Hancock, A. (2011). Solidarity Politics for Millennials: A Guide to Ending the Oppression Olympics. New York, NY: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Hancock, A. (2004). The Politics of Disgust and the Public Identity of the “Welfare Queen”. New York, NY: New York University Press.

Book Chapter
Hancock, A. (2012). Intersectionality: Intellectual Property or Meme?.
Hancock, A. (2012). Intersectional Representation or Representing Intersectionality? Reshaping Empirical Analyses of Intersectionality.
Hancock, A. “An Intersectional Analysis of Masculinity in the Political Thought of Frederick Douglass.” A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass Washington, DC.
Hancock, A. (2008). DuBois, Race and Diversity. pp. 86-101. London: Cambridge Companion to W.E.B. DuBois / Cambridge University Press.
Hancock, A. (2008). Black Female Athletes. (Vol. 2). pp. 1-10. Westport, CT: African Americans and Popular Culture / Praeger Greenwood Press.
Hancock, A. (2005). Overcoming Willful Blindness: Building Egalitarian Multicultural Women’s Coalitions. Greenwood Press: Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses.

Book Review
Hancock, A. (2009). Dangerous Frames. How Ideas About Race and Gender Shape Public Opinion. International Journal of Public Opinion.
Hancock, A. (2008). Intersectionality, Multiple Messages and Complex Causality: Commentary on Black Sexual Politics by Patricia Hill Collins. Studies in Gender and Sexuality / Routledge. pp. 14-31.

Journal Article
Hancock, A. (2012). Empirical Intersectionality: Two Approaches. University of California, Irvine Law Review.
Hancock, A. (2012). Trayvon Martin, Intersectionality and the Politics of Disgust. Theory and Event. (15)
Hancock, A. (2011). “Intersectionality, Empirical Research, and Social Justice”. DuBois Review: Social Science Research on Race.
Hancock, A. (2009). An Untraditional Intersectional Analysis of the 2008 Election. Politics and Gender / Cambridge University Press. Vol. 5 (1), pp. 96-105.
Hancock, A. (2008). Intersectionality as a Normative and Empirical Research Paradigm. Politics and Gender / Cambridge University Press. pp. 248-254.
Hancock, A. (2007). When Multiplication Doesn’t Equal Quick Addition: Examining Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm. Perspectives on Politics / Cambridge University Press. Vol. 5 (1), pp. 63-79.
Unah, I., Hancock, A. (2006). Supreme Court Decision-Making, Subissue Salience and the Attitudinal Model. Law and Policy / Blackwell Publishing. Vol. 28 (3), pp. 295-320.
Hancock, A. (2005). W.E.B. DuBois: Intellectual Forefather of Intersectionality?. SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society / Taylor and Francis. Vol. 7 (3-4), pp. 74-84.
Hancock, A. (2003). Contemporary Welfare Reform and the Public Identity of the ‘Welfare Queen’. Race, Class & Gender. Vol. 10 (1), pp. 31-59.

Other
Hancock, Ange-Marie & Nira Yuval-Davis (Ed.). (2011). The Politics of Intersectionality. Palgrave-Macmillan.
Hancock, Ange-Marie & Evelyn Simien (Ed.). (2011). Mini-Symposium: Intersectionality Research: New Directions for Scholarship in Political Science and its Applied Use Across Fields. Political Research Quarterly / Sage Publications.
Hancock, A. (2009). Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics & Political Women and American Democracy. Perspectives on Politics / Cambridge University Press.
Hancock, Ange-Marie & Evelyn Simien (Ed.). (2008). Intersectionality Symposium. Political Research Quarterly / SAGE.
Hancock, Ange-Marie (Ed.). (2005). W.E.B. DuBois and the “Scientific” Study of Race. SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society / Taylor and Francis.
Hancock, Ange-Marie & Karen Bouwer (Ed.). (2003). UBUNTU: Humane Solutions and Success Stories from Africa. Peace Review / Taylor and Francis.