- Doctoral
Dissertations Directed & Completed
2007 • Sharif Bey , Ph.D. in Art Education—Dissertation: Aaron Douglas and Hale Woodruff: The Social Responsibility and Expanded Pedagogy of the Black Artist
2006 • Apisak Sindhuphak, Ph.D. in Art Education—Dissertation:
The Need for a Digital Library of Indigenous Materials from a Cultural
Perspective in Thailand’s Design Education
2004 • Jihyun Sohn, Ph.D. in Art Education—Dissertation:
Web-enhanced Art Education for Critical Intepretation: Constructing Critical
Interpretations of Visual Culture in Preservice Art Education
2003 • Elizabeth Leal, Ph.D. in Fine Arts, Art
Education - Dissertation: Transformative
Power of Art: A Self-Study
2002 • Joyce Centofanti, Ph.D. in Fine Arts, Art
Education - Dissertation: A Single Subject
Multiple Baseline & Feminist Intertextual Deconstruction of Gender
Differences Among Kindergartners in Learning the Alphabet Using Clay and
a Tactual/Kinesthetic Multiple Intelligence and Montessori Pedagogy
2002 • George Bauer, Ph.D. in Fine Arts, Independent
track emphasis - Dissertation: "Perpetual
Displacement as a Creative Concept and Critical Strategy of Inquiry into
Sites of Meaning”
2001 • Michelle Kraft, Ph.D. in Fine Arts, Art
Education emphasis- Dissertation:
"A Policy Analysis and Case Study of Special Learners in the
Art Classroom" (1/97
- 5/01)
2000 • Oliver McRae, Ph.D. in Fine Arts, Art Education
emphasis - Dissertation: "Toward an Understanding
of the Beaux Arts Curriculum: A Survey Analysis of Six Sculputors Educated
in the United States Beaux Arts Academies in the First Half of the Twentieth
Century" (8/95 – 8/00)
2000 • Shwu-Huoy Tzou, , Ph.D. in Fine Arts, Art
History and Criticism emphasis (Co-chair) - Dissertation: "Cultural-Specific
and International Influences on and Critical Perceptions of Five Asian
Installation Artists: Gu Wenda, Yanagi Yukinori, Xu Bing,Miyajima Tatsuo,
and Choi Jeong-Hwa" (5/96- 8/00)
1999 • Julia Fox, Ph.D. in Fine Arts, Art Education
emphasis - Dissertation: “An
Analysis of Student-Perceived Outcome from Three Types of Visual Arts
Courses Selected to Fulfill University General Education Requirements”
(1/97 – 8/99)
1998 • Norma Jean Moore, MAE - Thesis: Developing and Implementing a Formative
Assessment Contextually Bound by Three Critical-thinking Art Lessons for
a Fourth Grade Class
2001• Danielle Hale-Feist, MAE, project: "A
Community-based Mural Project"
2000 • Tiffanie Davis, MAE, project: "Middle
School Student Responses to an Art Unit Involving Feminist WebQuests"
1998• Diane Briseño, MAE,exhbition:
"Impact of Text on Images"
1998• Mary Beth Rippel, MAE, exhibition: "Emergence"
1996 • Adetty Pérez Miles, MAE, exhibition:
"Contributions of Chicano Artists to the Feminist Movement"
- Undergraduate Honors Thesis Completed
2007 • Rachel Bachman, B.S. in Art Education with Honors. Thesis: Technology in Art Education: Where is it?
2006 • Ann Chirdon, B.S. in Art Education with Honors. Arts-based Research Project: Visual culture for individuals experiencing Visual impairment: A research project on Multi-sensory art.
1999 • Sarah Wolter, General Studies Undergraduate
Thesis Co-chair - Thesis: “Using
the Chinese Theory of ‘Feng Shui’ to Design Living Spaces:
A Case Study"
1998 • Melissa Hutson, General Studies Undergraduate
Thesis Co-chair - Thesis: “Emergent
Patterns from Selected Studies of Elementary-aged Children Involved in
Art Making” •
- Supervision/Chair of Doctoral Dissertations (In-process):
Wei-Chung Chang |
Ph.D., candidate, dissertation research concerns women in animation. (5/04–present) |
Hui-Chun Hsiao |
Ph.D. candidate, dissertation research: Reflective Learning with Narrative Interfaces in a Simulation Game Environment (1/06–present) |
Adetty Pérez Miles |
Ph.D., candidate, dissertation research: The School of Pan-American Unrest: Spaces of Dialogic Pedagogy (9/04–present) |
Maryellen Murphy (co-chair)
Michelle Tillander |
Ph.D., candidate, dissertation on Architecture of Reassurance(4/05–present)
Ph.D., candidate, dissertation: Cultural Interface as an Approach to New Media Art Education (5/04–present) |
See also “Service” in Vita
for membership on graduate advisory committees. |