Danielle Wallace Professor • Community and Social Justice Studies Danielle M. Wallace, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in African American Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Her teaching and research interests include the Black family, gender and sexual politics in the Black community, the gender socialization of Black men and women and the social and political roots of Africana Studies. Her current research focuses on Black student activism, and Black male/female relationships, especially the dating, marriage and mate selection ideals of Black men and women. Professional Interests Dating, Marriage and Mate Selection Practices of Africana People• Black Male/Female Relationships• Black Gender and Sexual PoliticsBlack Families and Family Structure• Racial and Gender Socialization of Black ChildrenBlack Women’s Studies and Feminism• Rape and Rape Culture in Black Communities• Racial and Gender Politics of University TeachingSocial Justice, Social Movements and Student Protest Languages (other than English) French Degrees PhD African American Studies, Temple University Philadelphia, PA BA Black Studies, State University of New York at New Paltz New Paltz, NY MA African American Studies, Temple University Philadelphia, PA Specialization Dating, Marriage and Mate Selection; Male/Female Relationships; Gender and Sexual Politics in Africana Communities; Africana Families and Family Structure; Africana Sociology; Black Student Activism Representative Publications ‘It’s a M-A-N Thang’: Black Male Sex Role Socialization and the Performance of Masculinity in Love Relationships; Ain't Nobody Worryin': Maleness and Masculinity in Black America; Cognella; 2012 Interracial Relationships: Attitudes Among Heterosexual College-Educated African American Women; Black Culture and Experience: Contemporary Issues; Peter Lang; 2015 Liberation Through Education: Teaching #BlackLivesMatter in Africana Studies; , Radical Teacher; Volume 106, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/rt.2016.308 Teaching to Transgress: Africana Studies Curriculum as a Support for Black Student Activism; College Curriculum at the Crossroads: Women of Color Reflect and Resist ; Routledge; 2018 Representative Presentations If We Must Die: Maintaining Africana Studies and Resistance in the Academy National Council for Black Studies Annual Meeting National Council for Black Studies Atlanta, GA 2020 Exploring the Future of Black Studies: Creating a Science and Technology Track National Council for Black Studies Annual Meeting National Council for Black Studies New Orleans , LA 2019 #BlackLivesMatter: Black Protest as a Response to Neo-Colonial Control National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting National Women’s Studies Association Montreal, 2017 Liberation Through Education: Autobiography as a Teaching Tool for Social Justice Educators 34th Annual Meeting International Society for Educational Biography Toronto, 2017 Media “Mass Incarceration and the Black Family” https://wavefarm.org/archive/j8qyfq Interview on the effects of mass incarceration on Black families in the United States. Notable Courses Taught Fundamentals of Africana-World StudiesResearch in Africana-World StudiesSeminar in Africana-World StudiesRace, Gender and Social JusticeThe Black Woman ExperienceAfrican American Family LifeIndependent Study: Honors ThesisCaribbean Women: Culture and SocietyStudent Community ServicePower, Justice and FreedomMass Media and the Black CommunityAfrican American History since 1900 Email 973 720 3026 By appointment