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Danté D. Bryant is an Assistant professor in the School of Social Work and College of Health and Human Services, and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Africana Studies.

Dr. Bryant’s research explores the intersections of identity, politics, and value formations, with a particular emphasis on how these dynamics generate competing conceptions of a just society, reconfigure institutional arrangements, produce differentiated modes of public life, guide behavior, and shape social, institutional and political decisions and discourse. His interdisciplinary approach seeks to construct critical spaces where divergent ideological postures can be brought into sustained analytical engagement to more fully interrogate the legitimacy of their epistemic assumptions, normative architectures, and sociopolitical implications.

Prior to joining UNC Charlotte, Dr. Bryant spent more than twenty-five years in community service, social activism, and policy reform. During that time, he worked with healthcare, post-secondary education, social services and criminal justice agencies nationwide to aid in their identification, implementation and promotion of fairer and more just nonpartisan institutional practices.

Education
  • Ph.D. – University of Texas Arlington, Social Work
  • M.S.S.W. – University of Texas Arlington, Social Work
  • M.T.S. – Vanderbilt University, Theological Studies (Western Philosophical Pragmatism)
  • B.A. – Southeast Missouri State University, Cognitive Psychology
Selected Interviews
Selected Publications
  • Bryant, D. & Swafford, T. (2025). Race, Space, and Culture: Exploring the Educational Experiences of African American Doctoral Social Work Students. Journal of Social Work Education, 61(3), 397-408. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2025.2495242.
  • Bryant, D. Swafford, T. (2024). Black Face White Stage: A Subaltern Discourse on Race in the American Theater. Cogent Arts & Humanities Production Team. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2024.2404739.
  • Bryant, D. (2024). Embodied Stereotypes? Exploring the Effects of Academic Probation on Collegiate African American. Journal of African  American Males in Education (JAAME). file:///C:/Users/chamb/Downloads/143707-embodied-stereotypes-exploring-the-effects-of-academic-probation-on-collegiate-african-american-men-s-educational-experiences-and-self-concepts.pdf
  • Men’s Educational Experiences and Self-Concepts
  • Bryant, D. & Vision, D. (2024) Black Male Bodies in White Female Spaces: Power, Dominance, and Myth in Social Work Education. Journal of Social Work Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2024.2337368. 
  • Bryant, D., & Kolivoski, K. (2021). The Stories We Tell: Examining the Persistence and  Impacts of Normative-Whiteness and White Supremacy Within Social Work  Education. Advances in Social Work, 21(2/3), 481-499. https://doi.org/10.18060/24158
  • Bryant, D. (2021). The Diminishing-Self: African American Men on Academic Probation and the Intersection of Stereotype Threat and Self-concept. Journal of African  American Males in Education (JAAME), 12(1), 1-15. 
  • Lewis, C., Bryant, D., Bryant, A, Williams, N., & Robinson, D. (2017). Improving  educational outcomes of vulnerable children: Starting from the bottom. Chapter: At Risk” Children and Teacher Preparation. San Diego, CA: Plural Publications.
  • Bryant, D. (2016). Black LGBT health in the United States: The intersection of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Chapter: Status-Quo: Intersectionality-Theory, AfroCentric paradigms, and meeting the healthcare needs of Gay and Bisexual African American men. Lanham, MD: Lexington Publications.
  • Shelton, J., Bryant, D., & Curtis, B. (2016). Is Black America ‘disintegrating’?: How class position, age cohort, and immigrant generation shape commitments to racial  solidarity. The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies, 35(1), 88-108.
  • Shelton, J., Curtis, B., & Bryant, D. (2016). We, as a people? Assessing the  consequences of various sources of diversity among African Americans. The PHYLON: Race and Culture, 53(2), 79-99.