Dante' D. Bryant PhD.

Danté Bryant is a social-scholar whose 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 activism, social services, 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.