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Research & Scholarship in
Visual Arts Education
Art Education Research Institute
Steering Committee
Co-Chair
Co-Chair
Fiona Blaikie, Ph.D.
Professor of Art Education
Brock University
Research Specialization: Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs; Embodiment, Gender and Sexuality; Affect; Worlding; Research Creation; Autoethnography; Art and Modernism, Postmodernism, Posthumanism, New Materialism, and Transhumanism.
Mira Kallio-Tavin, Ph.D.
Winnie Chandler Distinguished Professor of Art
University of Georgia
Research Specialization: Critical Artistic Research, Decolonialism, Disability Studies, Social Justice and Critical Animal Studies in Art Education
2023 Symposium Host and Program Director
Ryan Shin, Ph.D.
Professor of Art and Visual Culture Education
University of Arizona
Research Specialization: Global Visual Culture, Critical Discourse on Minority Visual Culture, Global Civic Learning and Engagement, and New Media and Technologies in Art Education
Treasurer
Tyler Deamead, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education
University of Cambridge
Director of Studies, Education Queens' College
Research Specialization: Critical whiteness studies, Cultural studies, Youth studies, Community-based arts education.
Editor and Lead Journal Liaison
Kimberly M. Sheridan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Art Education
George Mason University
Research Specialization: Teaching and Learning Through Making in K-12 Studio Classrooms and Museums Using Design-Based Research that Employs Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Learning Environments and Pedagogical Approaches that Address Social Needs
Joni Acuff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Arts Administration, Education & Policy
The Ohio State University
Research Specialization: Critical Multicultural Art Education; Critical Race Theory in Art Education; Community-Based Art Education; Culturally Responsive Art Teaching, Pedagogy, and Curriculum Development
Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art Education
The Pennsylvania State University
Research Specialization:
Youth Culture (Girl Culture) and Media, Community Based Art Education, Multicultural Feminist Art Education, Critical Place-based curriculum.
Jeffrey Broome, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Art Education
Florida State University
Research Specialization: Narrative inquiry and case study research methods; culturally responsive instruction; multi-age art education; and caring approaches to art curricula.
Juan Carlos Castro, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Concordia University
Research Specialization: Mobile and Social Media in Art Education
Cala Coats, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of
Art and Education
Arizona State University
Research Specialization: Post-Studio Art Education, Radical Pedagogy, Embodied Inquiry, Curriculum Theory
Dónal O'Donoghue, Ph.D.
Professor of Art Education
The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
Research Specialization: Art-Led Research and Scholarship; Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practices; Masculinities and Schooling; Philosophy of Art and Education
Rachel Fendler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of
Art Education
Florida State University
Research Specialization: CVisual Studies, Informal Learning, Arts Based Research, Participatory Research, Spatial Practices of Young People
Kerry Freedman, Ph.D.
Professor, Art + Design Education
Northern Illinois University
Research Specialization: Curriculum Theory; Visual Culture Studies; Critical Pedagogy; Student Learning through Art
Ami Kantawala, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor/Lecturer
Teachers College, Columbia University; Boston University
Research Specialization: Historical Research
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Ph.D.
Professor of Art Education and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Pennsylvania State University
Research Specialization: Feminist Pedagogy; Including Difference; Feminist Disabilities; Visual Culture Curricula; Cyberart Activism; Transcultural Dialogues; Action Research; Social Justice Arts-Based Research; Creativity as a Transdiciplinary Social Process; Distributed Leadership
Aaron Knochel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art Education
The Pennsylvania State University
Research Specialization: Critical Digital Making; Software Studies; New Media; Participatory Frameworks; Transdisciplinarity; Social Theory
Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture Education
University of Arizona
Research Specialization: Sociocultural Foundations; Race in Art Education; Teacher Identity and Agency; Arts-based Pedagogies
Amelia (Amy) Kraehe, Ph.D.
Tyson E. Lewis, Ph.D.
Professor of Art Education
University of North Texas
Research Specialization: Critical Theory, Critical Phenomenology, Posthuman and Postanimal Phenomenology, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy for Children, Research Creation, Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics
Kimberly Powell, Ph.D.
Professor of Education, Art Education, Music Education, & Asian Studies
Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction
Penn State University
Research Specialization: Arts in/as social change; cultural and community-based art education; public art pedagogy and critical place-based education; educational anthropology; qualitative methodology such as ethnogrpahy, experimental qualitative inquiry, research-creation, and arts-based research.
James Haywood Rolling Jr., Ph.D.
Chair and Professor of Art Education
Syracuse University
Research Specialization: Art + Design Education, Creative Leadership, Arts-Based + Narrative Research Methods, Social Justice + Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Community-Engaged Scholarship, and Creative Placemaking.
Christopher M. Schulte, Ph.D.
Endowed Associate Professor of Art Education, Assistant Director of the School of Art, Founder + Director of the Center for the Study of Childhood Art
Research Specialization: Childhood Art, Drawing in Childhood, Children’s Culture, Childhood Studies, Research with Children
Laura Trafi-Prats, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education
Manchester Metropolitan University
Research Specialization: Childhood Studies; Visual Ethnographies; Arts-Based Research
Robert W. Sweeny, Ph.D.
(He, Him, His)
Kevin Tavin, Ph.D.
Professor of Art Education
Program Coordinator, Art Education
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Research Specialization: Digital Visual Culture, Digital Media, Post-digital Making, Post-internet Art, Digital Dysfunction, Network Theory.
Professor of International Art Education
Aalto University, Finland
Research Specialization: Visual Culture, Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalytic Theory, and Post-Digital and Post-Internet Art and Education
Sarah Travis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of
Art Education
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
Research Specialization: Identity, Critical Pedagogy, Reflective Practice, Phenomenology, Arts-Based Research
Gloria J. Wilson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture Education
University of Arizona
Research Specialization: Cultural Studies, Racial Identity, Arts Participation and Equity, Arts-Based Research
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