Debra A. Hardy

Education

PhD, Art Education, The Ohio State University
MA, Art Education, University of Texas at Austin
BA, Art History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Minor, Community-Based Art Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Biography

Debra A. Hardy is an Assistant Professor in Art Education at the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Art Education at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Dr. Deb has taught in interdisciplinary K-8 community settings and museums in Ohio, Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

Dr. Deb’s research interests research areas include the histories of art education, the legacy of Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, social network analysis, dialogics and polyphony, Black feminist histories, counter-cartography, and anti-essentialist teaching practices. She has published articles the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education and Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue. She has chapters in several books, including The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education, Revitalizing History, and Promoting Civic Engagement through Art Education. She has a forthcoming article in Visual Arts Research and forthcoming chapter in Mapping International Art Education Histories.

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Accolades

• Black Metropolis Research Consortium Short-Term Fellow (Summer 2024)