The Pullias Center welcomes Dwuana Bradley to our faculty! Dr. Bradley brings more than 10 years of experience in qualitative research methodologies and is a former McNair Scholar.

Her research 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.

Dr. Bradley is committed to deepening equity through her teaching and advising across each of the four Ph.D. programs in USC Rossier’s Urban Education Policy program. Her two primary goals as an advisor and professor of higher education are to first, inspire all future education administrators across the P-20 pipeline to take on leadership positions with a critical mindset through timely and sound data production; and secondly to empower marginalized students with a sense of hope and self-determination that will forever guide their endeavors toward equity within and beyond the university.

“My scholarship is P-20 focused and broadly situated at the nexus between policy equity, anti-blackness/anti-racism and organizational behavior,” noted Dr. Bradley. “I am currently leading multiple higher education-focused projects that consider how state-level strategic policy and planning influences regional institutional-level change.”

Dr. Bradley is committed to a long-term professional agenda of researching, teaching and serving her broader community in ways that allow her to investigate, draw awareness to, and disrupt policy inequity that facilitates or creates barriers to education opportunities.

She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy (with a focus in Higher Education) from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020, and holds a Masters of Education with a focus in Student Affairs Administration, also from UT-Austin.

Dr. Bradley’s research has been funded by the Spencer Foundation and appears in journals such as: the American Educational Research Journal, the Review of Higher Education, The Community College Review and the Texas Education Review. Additionally, Dr. Bradley has worked with various third party influencers in education (i.e., nonprofit advocacy groups, research centers, and state education agencies) on topics such as student financial literacy; cost benefits of post-secondary education; student success and retention; and food, housing, and financial insecurity facing vulnerable student populations.