Anna Branch, PhD

 

 

ARROWS External Advisory Board Member

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Enobong Hannah (Anna) Branch, PhD
Associate Professor and Associate Chancellor of Equity & Inclusion
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dr. Anna Branch is the Associate Chancellor for Equity & Inclusion and the Chief Diversity Officer for UMass-Amherst as well as an Associate Professor of Sociology. She provides strategic leadership for campus diversity efforts to promote an institutional culture at UMass Amherst that values and supports diversity, equity, and inclusion. Dr. Branch’s research focuses on race and gender, work and occupations, and diversity in science. She is the author of Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work (2011) and the editor of Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science: Reconsidering the Pipeline (2016) as well as the author of several articles published in the International Journal of Gender, Science, and Technology; The Sociological Quarterly; Sociological Perspectives; Social Science History; Journal of Black Studies; and Race, Gender, & Class.