June Salon - Ange Marie Hancock
June 8, 2022
Salon Topic:
Getting fuzzy with it. Applying intersectionality to COVID-19 research using a fuzzy-set approach
Salon Guests:
Ange-Marie Hancock, PhD
Dean's Professor of Gender Studies and Professor of Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
University of Southern California
Salon Description:
In her insightful 2007 article "When Multiplication Doesn't Equal Quick Addition," Hancock introduced fuzzy-set methods as "ripe" for quantitative empirical intersectionality research. In this salon, Hancock will chat about her latest project applying fuzzy-set logic to intersectional research on COVID-19 in the U.S.
Guest Bio:
A political scientist by training, Hancock is a nationally and internationally recognized scholar of intersectionality. Her work examines the impact of intersections such as race, gender, class, sexuality and citizenship on U.S. policy. Hancock's third and most recent book is Intersectionality: An Intellectual History (2016). She is the director of of the USC Center for Feminist Research, the USC Dornsife Center for Leadership by Women of Color and the USC-IIST, the USC Institute for Intersectionality and Social Transformation.
- Hancock, A.-M. (2007). When multiplication doesn't equal quick addition: Examining intersectionality as a research paradigm. Perspectives on Politics, 5(1), 63-79. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592707070065
- Hancock, A.-M. (2013). Empirical intersectionality: A tale of two approaches. UC Irvine Law Review, 3(2), 259-296. https://scholarship.law.uci.edu/ucilr/vol3/iss2/6