Featured grants
- Davis, Dionne Laverne (Principal), Pena, Rosa Maria (Co-Principal). Centering Students as Policy Actors in Educational Contexts, Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $16000. (Submitted: 2025, Funded: 2025 - 2026). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Davis, D. L., & Mobley, A. (n.d.). I Have My Sister’s Back: Cultivating Counterspaces in the Academy to Keep Black Motherscholars Safe. In Black Mother Scholarship Within and Beyond the Academy: Reconceptualizing Radical Futurity. Springer.
- Davis, D. L. (n.d.). It Takes a Village to Raise a Scholar: The Role of Mentorship for Mothers’ Success in the Academy. In Navigating Academic Motherhood. Routledge.
- Davis, D. L., Martinez, M. A., & Pena, R. M. (2024). Navigating quandaries and hard places: The impact of leadership dynamics on the career paths of three BIPOC women assistant principals. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589231221113
- Davis, D. L. (2023). Integrated Professional Learning: Boundary-Spanning Graduate Leadership with Principals and District Leaders. Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.
- Davis, D. L. (2022). Philosophical Mentoring in Qualitative Research: Collaborating and Inquiring Together!
Featured service activities
- Member
Non-Tenure Line (NTL) PPS Creation Committee
- Member
Zinn Education Project: Teaching for Black Lives
- Member
Doctoral Admissions Committee
- Member
CLAS PPS Committee
- Member
Michael Abbott Scholarship in EDCL
- Reviewer / Referee
Journal of Educational Administration