Delandrea Hall

Dr. Delandrea Hall is an Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education at the University of North Texas. She received her doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Social Studies Education from the University of Texas at Austin and her K-12 experience includes 11 years as a high school social studies teacher in the Dallas area. Her research interest center on examining the ways racialized and gendered experiences inform the praxis of Black and Latinx teachers and how these teachers works to disrupt dominant notions of social studies through critical pedagogical approaches like Hip-Hop Based Education/pedagogy and critical economies.

• Allen, K. R., & Hall, D. (2024). “Take another route ‘cause we ain’t scared in the South”: Lessons from hip-hop to social studies educators amid bans on critical race theory in the classroom, Annals of Social Studies Education Research for Teachers, 6(1), 25- 37. http://doi.org/10.29173/assert76
• Hall, D. (2023). “Come as you are. We are a family.”: Examining Hip Hop, belonging, and civicness in social studies. Theory & Research in Social Education, 51(3), 343-371. https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2022.2164233
• Wright-Maley, C., Hall, D., Finley, S.Y. (2023). Evaporative economics: A truth-telling metaphor to displace the trickle-down lie that just won’t die. Journal of Social Studies Research Education, 14(2), 1-20. https://jsser.org/index.php/jsser/article/viewFile/4788/611
• Duncan, K., Hall, D., & Dunn, D. (2023). Embracing the fullness of Black humanity: Centering Black joy in social studies. The Social Studies, 114(5). 241-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2023.2174926