Flávia Bastos, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Theory and methods of community-based art education; international art education; social justice art education; creativity; arts-based research; participatory-action research.

Contact: flavia.bastos@uc.edu 

Vicki Daiello, Ph.D.

Director of Graduate Studies in Visual Arts Education and Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Visual culture and arts criticism writing methods; philosophical inquiry; psychoanalytic theories of subjectivity in education; qualitative research methodologies in arts and design.  

Contact: vicki.daiello@uc.edu 

Kristopher Holland, Ph.D.

Director of Visual Arts Education Licensure and Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Philosophical inquiry methodologies; aesthetic theory; conceptual art practices in art education; arts-based-research; rethinking critical pedagogy within contemporary philosophical frameworks; deconstruction; emancipatory philosophies in continental philosophy.

Contact: kristopher.holland@uc.edu

Robert Russell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Emeritus

Research Interests

Theory and methods of teaching community development through public art; aesthetics as philosophical inquiry; art curriculum development.

Contact: robert.russell@uc.edu