Gender Based Violence & Race Committee

Mission

To study and teach about the role that race plays in all forms of gender-based violence, including sexual violence, intimate partner violence, reproductive violence and elucidate the links among race, gender-based violence and the criminal legal system. To advocate for abolitionist approaches to addressing gender-based violence thus reducing our reliance on criminal legal system responses.

Goals

  1. Support research that approaches the study of gender-based violence through an explicitly anti-racist, feminist, intersectional frame
  2. Support courses that include a focus on gender-based violence framed through an explicitly anti-racist, feminist, intersectional frame
  3. Offer curriculum to support women who are incarcerated at Baylor Women’s Correctional Institute
  4. Collaborate with other UDARI committees to advance anti-racist agenda
  5. Advocate for abolitionist approaches to addressing gender-based violence that reduce the reliance on the carceral state by partnering with local community organizations including the Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Delaware’s Domestic Violence Coordinating Council

Members

Chairs: Dr. Angela Hattery (Women and Gender Studies) and Dr. Earl Smith (Women and Gender Studies)

Members:

  • Dr. Jennifer Naccarelli, Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Delaware
  • Dr. Emma Freetly Porter, Professor of Psychology, Adelphi University, New York
  • Dr. Allison Monterrosa, Professor of Sociology, California State University, San Marcos
  • Dr. Marissa Kiss, Research Scientist, Immigration Center, George Mason University
  • Maria Paula Mendoza, Sociology PhD student at the University of Delaware
  • Katie Mirance–Popelka, Criminology PhD student at the University of Delaware
  • Katelyn Foltz, Sociology PhD student at the University of Maryland-College Park