Darion Wallace

Darion A. Wallace is a PhD candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Education in the Race, Inequality, and Language in Education and History of Education programs. Born and raised in Inglewood, CA, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Rhetoric and African American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in International Education Policy Analysis from Stanford University. As a transdisciplinary Black Education Studies scholar, Darion’s program of research interrogates the ways K–12 American schools (re)produce logics of (anti)blackness and structure the life and educational outcomes of Black students across space and time.

Wallace explores these interests through three interrelated domains of research: excavating the politics of un/freedom and abolitionism in Black educational history; illuminating practices of Black historical sense-making and youth historical literacies through community-engaged research; and interrogating how the contemporary social context of Black education permits or constraints these Black educational histories and youth historical literacies to manifest in American education.

Darion is a 2023 recipient of the Stanford Presidential Award for Excellence through Diversity and his research has been funded by the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, the Stanford Research, Action, and Impact through Strategic Engagement Fellowship, the Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars Fellowship, and the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. His scholarship has been published in the Journal of Multicultural Education.