Daron L. Davis Academic CV

Academic curriculum vitae of Daron L. Davis, an independent governance researcher, HBCU graduate, writer, and prospective political science PhD applicant. The CV documents the Institutional Authority Dynamics research enterprise as the organizing scholarly project through which Davis’s publication program, public conceptual records, doctoral strategy, conference activity, federal policy engagement, scholarly identity, and governed applied development are represented. The record documents independent institutional analysis and public scholarship beginning in 2021 and the formal organization of the Institutional Authority Dynamics research enterprise in 2026. Black politics is identified as a central site of theory generation, empirical investigation, and public application across the enterprise, particularly in relation to authority formation, Narrative Legitimacy, political memory, Governance Control, Governance Drift, authority-recovery constraints, institutional preservation, and institutional defense. The CV records five framework manuscripts; Institutional Authority and Governance Dynamics (IAGD) as the integrating theoretical architecture; BlackGuard Multilevel Governance Architecture (BGMA) as the reserved applied governance architecture; Authority Provenance as a cross-cutting evidentiary layer; four formal federal public comments; an accepted ASALH conference presentation and formal presenter participation invitation; and Global Youth Action Fellowship engagement as an invited distinguished guest, opening speaker, and facilitator of a Community Needs Analysis workshop delivered on July 23, 2026.