Dwuana Bradley, PhD
An expert on Policy, Organizational Behavior, Anti-Black Racism, and Anti-oppressive Methodologies.
Research
Professor Bradley's research broadly examines the ways in which anti-Black sentiment perpetually undergirds the drivers and levers of federal, state and institutional policies across the P-20 pipeline in ways that (un)intentionally reify the social stratification of Black peoples across the diaspora.
Her work employs theories of anti-blackness, socio-legal concepts and critical qualitative methodologies to address issues of Black education, hate speech and anti-racist inclusion on predominantly White campuses; post-secondary access facing racially minoritized community college transfer students; and legislative influence on emergent tier-one universities and HBCU-HSI institutions.
News
Work
Learn about Dwuana’s work, teachings, and publications.
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“Dr. Bradley affirms each student's position while pushing back with different information. She makes us think about things differently and forces us out of our preconceived ideas about education.”
“My favorite professor so far. Knowledgeable, patient, deep in thought, professional, and warm hearted.”
“Paradigmatic agility, keen ability to see the different components of someone's argument and ask probing questions to constructively push on it, true passion for the work, genuinely caring for her students, and making expectations clear so students know how to achieve them.”
”Dr. Bradley creates a classroom that is welcoming and open to disagreement. This is the first class I have taken, focused on decolonization, and it has opened my eyes to different points of view. While I don't agree with everything we read or may have difficulty understanding certain concepts, she's been really helpful in breaking concepts down into digestible pieces. Long story short, I feel seen, heard, and understood in class and within the content.”
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“She is very thoughtful and good at explaining fine, nuanced distinctions in theory and methodology.”
“Dr. Bradley is a dynamic and incredibly thoughtful instructor. In the first-class session, she cultivated a sense of community that was exceptionally inclusive. Her explicitly stated willingness to work with us in the event of any range of situations was honest and quite generous. Her reading selections show great command of the course matter, and I appreciate being exposed to texts that will stay with me throughout my career.”
“I appreciate that the course focuses on a specific method each week and that the activities are intentionally designed to facilitate intellectual growth and development.”
Dwuana Bradley is an education scholar formally trained in social science research methodologies and issues of systemic and structured inequality. She works to understand organizational behavior in higher education and K-12 settings.
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“Even in the face of powerful structures of domination, it remains possible for each of us, especially those of us who are members of oppressed and/or exploited groups as well as those radical visionaries who may have race, class, and sex privilege, to define and determine alternative standards, to decide on the nature and extent of compromise.”
- bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black