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Dwuana Bradley

Assistant Professor of Education

dwuana.bradley@usc.edu

Headshot portrait of Dwuana Bradley smiling outdoors near brick archways

Programs

Research Concentration

Higher Education

Expertise

Critical Education Policy

Higher Ed

K–12

Education

Doctorate of Educational Leadership & Policy, University of Texas at Austin

Dwuana Bradley is an assistant professor at the USC Rossier School of Education. Dwuana graduated with a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020—making her a bonafide, “Pandemic PhD.” 

Donald D. Harrington Dissertation Fellow ($42,000), 2019-2020

Barbara Jackson Scholar, 2017–2019

Ronald E. McNair Scholar, 2009–2011

Courses (as of Fall 2022)

EDUC 665 Foundations and Design (4 units); Fall

Introduces the knowledge, skills and perspective that provide the agency necessary to design and carry out scholarship as an educational researcher.

EDUC-651: Introduction to Qualitative Methods; Summer 

Introduces qualitative methodologies, qualitative data collection and analysis techniques, support in drafting research proposals, and paradigms on how to critically think about inquiry.

  • Garces, L. M., Davis-Johnson, B., Ambriz, E., Bradley, D. Free Speech and Inclusion in a Racially Divided Climate: How Postsecondary Institutional Responses to Hate Speech Are Shaping Equity and Inclusion Policy. (In Press)
  • Garces, L. M., Johnson, B. D., Ambriz, E., & Bradley, D. (2021). Repressive Legalism: How Postsecondary Administrators’ Responses to On-Campus Hate Speech Undermine a Focus on Inclusion. American Educational Research Journal, 00028312211027586.
  • Bradley, D. (2020). Whiteness & affirmative action. Critical Understandings in Education Encyclopedia: Critical Whiteness Studies. Brill/Sense Publishing. 
  • Bradley, D., & Doran, E. E. (2018). Texas House Bill 51—An incognito performance-based funding policy: Implications for access and equity in Texas. Texas Education Review, 7(1), 85-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/15 
  • Bradley, D. (2018). Texas House Bill 51: A coercive isomorphic force on Texas’s regional comprehensive universities, a matter of access & equity. Texas Education Review, 7(1), 48-57. http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/11 

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.

Teaching Preparation Certificate: Awarded by, Teaching Preparation Seminar, Faculty & Innovation Center, UT-Austin

Inclusive Classroom Design Certification: Awarded by Inclusive Classrooms Leadership Certificate Seminar, Division of Diversity & Community Engagement, UT-Austin