Hwa Young Caruso,
Ed. D., is Assistant Professor of Art at Molloy
College, NY. She teaches studio art, art history, and art
education. Her research focuses on contemporary art, issues
of identity, and social transformation through art. She
contributed
Critical Cultural Inquiry and Multicultural Art Education
to this issue. (Contact this author at
hcaruso@molloy.edu)
Dr. Bob Daniels
is recently retired from Virginia State University where he
served as Chairperson of the Department of Educational
Leadership. Prior to serving at VSU, he served as Associate
Provost and Dean at Kent State University. He contributed
Transforming Performing Arts Curricula into Effective
Multicultural Pedagogy: An African American Perspective
to this issue. (Contact this author at
bob_d23836@yahoo.com)
Lisa Hochtritt,
Ed. D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Art Education at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Her research interests focus on the interrelationships
between youth and popular cultures, lived experiences, and
art education. She contributed
Pre-packaged Multiculturalism: A Cause for Concern in the
Art Classroom to this issue.
(Contact this author at
lhocht@artic.edu)
Pamela Harris
Lawton, Ed. D., is Assistant Professor and
Coordinator of the Art Education Program at the University
of North Carolina at Charlotte. As a practicing artist, art
educator, and researcher, she uses her artistic practice to
inspire her teaching and to inform her research. As an
artist-teacher, she tries to facilitate students' learning
and increase their art-making confidence by stressing the
importance of the creative process. She contributed
Creating "Artstories" as Sites of Social Reconstructivism,
Personal Expression and Multicultural Education and
Understanding to this issue.
(Contact this author at
phlawton@email.uncc.edu)
Kryssi Staikidis
received an Ed. D. in Art Education from Teachers College
Columbia University and an MFA in painting from Hunter
College. She has taught as an art educator at the K-!2,
undergraduate, and graduate levels. She contributed
Artistic Mentorship with two Mayan Artists as a Source for
Curricular and Pedagogical Transformation in Higher
Education to this issue. (Contact
this author at
kstaikidis@niu.edu)
