Ph.D. | Graduate School of Education
Stanford University
Bio
Danielle Marie Greene received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the social context of education, where she explores teaching cultures and language practices within K-12 public schools that have majority African American students, faculty, and staffs. Specifically, Danielle centers African American resistances to linguistic, cultural, and physical Black displacement and dispossession in schools. Guided by Black Studies, she methodologically employs ethnographic and qualitative methods, with the goal of interrogating and elevating quotidian experiences of Black life. She earned a M.T. from Virginia Commonwealth University in Secondary Social Studies Education and a B.A. from The College of William & Mary in English & History.
Prior to Stanford University, she was a 7th and 8th grade Social Studies and Civics and Economics teacher in Richmond, Virginia. As a third-generation Richmond Public Schools’ teacher, some of Danielle’s fondest memories are sitting at the helm of her classroom (or standing by the volleyball net as a coach) and learning from some of the most intelligent and dynamic people she’s ever had the pleasure of knowing: her students.
Outside of academia, Danielle is a Slytherin and Grounder who moonlights as an avid science fiction/fantasy novel reader, bully of a big sister, and has the immense pleasure of serving as the Chief of Staff of the Richmond Resilience Initiative - a guaranteed income pilot serving working-class residents of Richmond, Virginia.
Publications
Peer Reviewed
2022
Francis A. Pearman, II and Danielle Marie Greene. “School Closures and the Gentrification of the Black Metropolis.” Sociology of Education. [Link]
2021
Danielle Marie Greene. “‘It’s just how we articulate the Blackness in us’: African American teachers, Black students, and African American Language.” Race, Ethnicity and Education. [Link]
Arnetha F. Ball, Danielle Marie Greene, Joseph S. L. Friedman, Barbara J. Dray. “The Trifecta Framework: Preparing Agents of Change in Urban Education.” Urban Education. [Link]
Forthcoming
Danielle Marie Greene and Arnetha F. Ball. “African American English.” The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes.
In Progress
Danielle Marie Greene and Francis A. Pearman, II. “Racialized Closures and the Shuttering of Black Schools: Evidence from National Data.” (Under Initial Review with American Educational Research Journal).
Danielle Marie Greene. “The Last Black Public High School”: The Viability of a Black Administered and Attended School in a Gentrifying City.
Danielle Marie Greene. No Children Involved: Antiblackness and the Closing of Majority Black Schools in the 21st Century.
Public Writing
July 2020
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education | “Learning to Talk about Race and Implicit Bias in Historically White Districts: Some Guidance for Educators” https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/library/publications/1623
May 2020
Richmond Free Press |“Rezoning best for schools” http://richmondfreepress.com/news/2020/jul/16/rezoning-best-schools-danielle-m-greene/
March 2017
Huffington Post | “Moonlight: A Call for Queer Curricula” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/moonlight-a-call-for-queer-curricula_b_58c317ede4b070e55af9eebe
July 2016
Huffington Post |“Alton Sterling and Black Death: The Capability to Love and Fight at the Same Time” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alton-sterling-and-black-death-the-capability-to-love_b_577d6530e4b05b4c02fb8502