Graduate Student Bios
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Marie Huard
Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education
Research Focus: Racial Justice Art Education Curriculum Design
Academic Advisor: Dr. Wanda B. Knight
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Pin-Hsuan Tseng
Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education
Research Focus: Resilience, affective pedagogy, transnational feminist
Academic Advisor: Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd
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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
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Simin Zargaran
Ph.D. Student in Art Education
Research Focus: Feminist and non-binary perspectives
Pre-Candidacy Academic Advisor: Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd
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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