Graduate Student Bios

Richard Agbeze

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education with a minor in Curriculum & Instruction 

Research Focus: Social Justice Art Education, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Critical Media literacy, and Race-based Representation

Academic Advisor: Dr. Wanda B. Knight 

Fouz Aljameel (she/her/hers)

Dual-Title Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Research Focus: Cyberfeminism, Cyberactivism, Archiving Digital Art Activism, Feminist Digital Art Pedagogy.

Academic Advisor: Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd 

Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Research Focus: Developing Glitch Feminist Art Curriculum/Pedagogy intended to raise learners’ critical consciousness surrounding the intersections of reproductive justice and digital cultures/technologies

Academic Advisor: Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd

Ian Danner

M.S. Student in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, with a Minor in Education, Development, and Community Engagement (EDCE), Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Certification PK-12 Art

Research Focus: Pedagogy of Fiber, Queer/Feminist Studies, Research-Creation, and New Materialism

Academic Advisor: Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd

Yang Deng

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education and Lecturer at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK)

Research Focus: International Education, Cultural Psychology, Interality Study, Mindful Drawing

Academic Advisor: Dr. Wanda B. Knight 

Münire Burçak Gezeroğlu

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education with a minor in Curriculum & Instruction 

Research Focus: Video Gameplay, Queer Theory, Post-human Art Pedagogy, Feminist New Materialisms

Academic Advisor: Dr. Wanda B. Knight 

Carrie Heron

Ph.D. Student in Art Education 

Research Focus: Art History, Arts can create positive change in education

Pre-Candidacy Academic Co-Advisors: Dr. Ann Holt & Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd

Carly Holzwarth

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education 

Research Focus: Intersections of Art Education and Theatre Education through pedagogy, materials, and performance

Academic Advisor: Dr. Kimberly Powell

Marie Huard

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education

Research Focus: Racial Justice Art Education Curriculum Design

Academic Advisor: Dr. Wanda B. Knight 

Eunkyung Hwang

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Research Focus: Stigmatization of Women’s Scars and illness in Visual Culture, Critical Disability Studies, and Crip Feminist Art Pedagogy

Academic Advisor: Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd

Eunjin Kim

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education with a minor in Curriculum & Instruction 

Research Focus: Curriculum development centering Asian American student experiences, Asian Critical Race (AsianCrit) Theory, Digital collage

Academic Advisor: Dr. Wanda B. Knight 

Tae Hee Kim

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education 

Research Focus: Instructional pedagogy for inclusive and student-centered practices, self-initiated learning, and experiential learning

Academic Advisor: Dr. Wanda B. Knight 

Brandi Lewis

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Research Focus: Critical Pedagogies with an emphasis on Feminist, Queer, Trans, and Disability Futurities, utilizing Posthumanism and New Materialism frameworks

Academic Advisor: Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd

Celine O'Hara

Ph.D. Student in Art Education 

Research Focus: Feminist art theory/criticism, critical theory in inclusive education, medieval queer and trans history/erasure, and revisionist art and art history

Pre-Candidacy Academic Advisor: Dr. Kimberly Powell

Keisha S. M. Oliver

 Ph.D. Dual-title Student in Art Education and African American and Diaspora Studies

Research Focus: 

Academic Advisor: Dr. Wanda B. Knight 

Ye Sul Park

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education  

Research Focus: Embodied Learning in New Media Art, Human-Nonhuman Technology Relations, Ethics of Emerging Technologies, Critical Digital Literacy

Academic Advisor: Dr. Aaron Knochel

Glynnis Reed-Conway

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Research Focus: Art making practices, African spirituality, feminist disability studies and conjure feminism

Academic Advisor: Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd

Carly Sherman

Ph.D. Student in Art Education  

Research Focus: Conversation and advocacy around social justice art education, feminist(s) art education, and BIPOC and LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum and pedagogy

Pre-Candidacy Academic Advisor: Dr. Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis 

Pin-Hsuan Tseng

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education 

Research Focus: Resilience, affective pedagogy, transnational feminist

Academic Advisor: Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd

Sue Uhlig

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education

Research Focus: Participatory and socially engaged art, research-creation, object collections, critical exchange of gift economies

Academic Advisor: Dr. Kimberly Powell

Simin Zargaran

Ph.D. Student in Art Education

Research Focus: Feminist and non-binary perspectives

Pre-Candidacy Academic Advisor: Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd

Wen-Hsia Hsiao

Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education

Research Focus: Museology, Art Museum Education, Visual Art Appreciation, Art Pedagogy and Cultural Research for People with Disabilities

 Academic Advisor: Dr. Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis