Dant\u00e9 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Bryant’s research examines the complex intersections of identity, politics, and values, and how these forces generate competing visions of a just society, shape divergent institutional arrangements, and produce differentiated modes of public life. Additionally, Dr. Bryant’s work investigates how these dynamics guide individual behavior and inform the social, institutional, and political decisions that structure our shared socio-political environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A central focus of Dr. Bryant’s scholarship is the study of ideological conflict, specifically, the mechanisms that determine whether such conflicts collapses into collective intellectual foreclosure or evolve into moments of genuine collective cognitive advancement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Motivated by these inquiries, Dr. Bryant is committed to cultivating public spaces where intellectually divergent individuals can engage in productive, and meaningfully collaborative exchanges intended to support the rigorous exploration of the epistemic assumptions, normative frameworks, and sociopolitical implications that underline, and often divide us and the larger society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Dant\u00e9 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 examines the complex intersections of identity, … Continue reading