Dr. Manisha Sharma
University of North Texas
Art Education
(940) 565-4020
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Education

PhD, Ohio State University.
Major: Art Education
Dissertation Title: Indian art education & teacher identity as Deleuzo-Guattarian assemblage: Narratives in a postcolonial globalization context
MA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2003.
Major: Art Education
Dissertation Title: Reclaiming social agency through art education: The role of popular iconography and of the book form as text in contemporary India
BFA, College of Art, Delhi, 1998.
Major: Applied Art
Dissertation Title: Rusana: Brand design & advertising campaign
Certificate, Triveni Kala Sangam, 1998.
Major: Photography

Professional Positions

Academic - P-12
Arts Coordinator/Visual Arts Teacher, American School Foundation. (2006 – 2009).
Art and English Teacher, Nagoya International Junior and Senior High School. (2004 – 2006).
Academic - Post-Secondary
Professor, University of North Texas. (2021 – Present).
Associate Professor, University of Arizona. (2018 – 2021).
Assistant Professor, University of Arizona. (2012 – 2018).
Graduate Teaching Associate, Ohio State University. (2009 – 2012).
Graduate Teaching Assistant/Graduate Associate, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (1999 – 2001).
Professional
Art Teacher/ESL Teacher, Copernicus Senior Center. (2002 – 2003).
Teaching Artist, Urban Gateways Center for Arts Education. (2002 – 2003).
Gallery Manager, The Alaska Shop Gallery of Inuit Art. (2000 – 2002).
Coordinator, Summer Arts Camp, Museum of Contemporary Art. (2000).
Education Intern, Field Museum of Natural History. (2000).

Licensures and Certifications

Inclusive Leadership Certificate, The University of Arizona. (2020 – 2021).

Adults and Pediatrics First Aid, CPR, AED, American Red Cross International. (2014 – 2021).

Professional Memberships

Elected Member, Council for Policy Studies in Art Education. (2018 – Present).

International Society for Education Through Art. (2010 – Present).

National Art Education Association. (1999 – Present).

Development Activities Attended

Workshop,"Cultural Humility: A Framework to Mitigate Personal Bias," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (January 27, 2023 – January 27, 2023).

Conference Attendance,"2022 INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE: A LEADERSHIP TRANSFORMATION," UNT Office for Student Success, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America. (November 6, 2022 – November 8, 2022).

Workshop,"Faculty Mentoring Bootcamp," UNT CVAD Dean's office, online, TX, United States of America. (June 23, 2022 – July 21, 2022).

Workshop,"Art of Participatory Learning," UNT Provost's Office, Denton/ Online, TX, United States of America. (January 6, 2022 – May 17, 2022).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
ART 5900, Special Problems, 3 courses.
ART 6950, Doctoral Dissertation, 1 course.
ARTE 4795, Topics in Art Education, 1 course.
ARTE 5710, Foundations for Urban Art Education Studies, 1 course.
ARTE 5773, Curriculum Theory in Art Education, 1 course.
ARTE 5787, Introduction to Research in Art Education, 1 course.

Non-Credit Instruction

Guest Lecture, 28. (March 2023 – Present).

Guest Lecture, 27. (September 2023).

Guest Lecture, Unpaid, 28. (November 30, 2022).

Directed Student Learning

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member,"Bridging Tradition and Modernity: An Intergenerational Exploration of Chinese Art, Gender Dynamics, and Cultural Sustainability," Art Education. (January 10, 2023 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member,"Untitled, as of yet," Art Education. (January 2022 – Present).

Dissertation Defense Committee Member,"Disorienting Resilience: Exploring Resilience With Women Graduate Students in Design-Related Programs," Art Education. (August 8, 2023 – January 19, 2024).

Dissertation Committee Chair,"Deconstructing an Orientalist Fantasy of the Harem, Hammam, and Odalisque Through a Feminist Intersectional Postcolonial lens," Art Education. (November 1, 2021 – September 11, 2023).

Master's Thesis Committee Member,"The Adventures of PAL: Racist Color Semiotics," Art Education. (March 1, 2022 – April 7, 2023).

Dissertation Defense Committee Member,"Art from Home to School: Towards a Critical Art Education Curriculum Framework in Postcolonial and Globalisation Contexts for Primary School Level in Uganda," Art Education. (January 17, 2022 – November 4, 2022).

Dissertation Committee Chair,"Engaged Curriculum in Art Education: A Case Study Addressing Border Monuments," Art Education. (January 5, 2019 – June 22, 2022).

Dissertation Committee Chair,"Disrupting the Introductory Art History Survey; Towards a Global, Nomadic Approach to Teaching the History of Art," Art Education. (January 5, 2019 – April 18, 2022).

Master's Thesis Committee Member,"This is the only thing we've got," Studio Art. (2021).

Master's Thesis Committee Member,"An individual/community model in visual arts," Art Education and Art History. (2019).

Dissertation Committee Chair,"These ways of working: Reflections on the collaborative nature of museum staff roles in creating museum space," Art Education and Art History. (2018).

Dissertation Committee Member,"What if you were a superhero? Teaching gender and social justice through design pedagogy in a pre-service art teacher introductory course," Art Education and Art History. (2018).

Dissertation Committee Member,"Understanding how perceptions of identity and power influence student engagement and teaching in undergraduate art history survey courses," Art Education and Art History. (2018).

Dissertation Committee Member,"Transforming university non-majors' art learning perspectives by integrating informal learning strategies," Art Education and Art History. (2018).

Dissertation Committee Member,"Un-Disciplining the art museum: Museum educators, institutional structures, and processes of change," Art Education and Art History. (2018).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair,"Creative expressions of hope and aspirations among refugees in a community art project," Art Education and Art History. (2018).

Master's Thesis Committee Member,"Interpreting visual vernaculars: A practice based observational approach to art production and visual dialects," Art Education and Art History. (2018).

Awards and Honors

Outstanding Art Educator in Higher Education Award, The Arizona Art Education Association. (November 17, 2017 – Present).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book
Sharma, M., Alexander, A. (2023). The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education. (1st Edition), . New York, New York: Routledge.
Book Chapter
Sharma, M., Shin, R., Lim, M., Lee, O., Han, S. (2023). Desi/Pardesi/Videshi: International (Re)locations in a Time of Nationalism. Counternarratives from Asian American Art Educators: Identities, Pedagogies, and Practice Beyond The Western Paradigm. 45-53. New York, NY: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003222293/counternarratives-asian-american-art-educators-ryan-shin-maria-lim-oksun-lee-sandrine-han
Sharma, M., Knochel, A. D., Sahara, O. (2023). Patriotism and Nationalism: Sounds of Dissent and Resistance in Contemporary India. Global Media Arts Education Mapping Global Perspectives of Media Arts in Education. 61-77. Camden: Palgrave MacMillan: Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures (PSEF).
Sharma, M., Wilson, G., Boyd, J., Kraehe, A. (2022). The Water and the Bridge: Dilemmas of In-betweenness. A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back. 118–122. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Sharma, M., Kiefer-Boyd, K., Hoeptner-Polling, L., Klein, S., Knight, W., Miles, A. (2021). Halla bol! Visual(izing) responses to violence against women in contemporary India. National Art Education Association Women's Caucus Lobby Activism: Feminism(s)+ art education. 199-208. Alexandria, VA: NAEA Press.
Garber, E., Hochtritt, L., Sharma, M. (2018). Introduction: Makers, Crafters, Educators: Working for Cultural Change. Makers, Crafters, Educators. 1--13. Routledge.
Sharma, M. (2017). Activating Art Education Learning by Mapping Community Cultures. Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement. 170--184. IGI Global.
Sharma, M. (2011). Navjot Altaf: What public, whose art?. Art as Social Justice: Culture as Commons. 1, 116--118. Routledge.
Book Review
Sharma, M. (2021). Review of Community-Based Art Education Across the Lifespan: Finding Common Ground. Studies in Art Education. 62(1), 96-99.
Journal Article
Sharma, M. (2022). Jittered Orthodoxies. Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art. 10(2), 217-19. Ubana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. https://doi.org/10.1386/vi_00047_1
Sharma, M., Coats, C. (2021). Editorial: (En)countering (Un)certainty: Shifting Orientations through Imagination and Disruption. Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. 41, 2-6. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jstae/vol41/iss1/1/
Sharma, M., Thatte, A. (2021). Exploring Craft Traditions of India: Heritage Crafts as a Curricular Gateway for Interdisciplinary Learning. Art Education Journal.
Sharma, M., Thatte, A. (2021). Exploring Craft Traditions of India: Heritage Crafts as a Curricular Gateway for Interdisciplinary Learning. Art Education Journal. 74(3), 43--47. Taylor \& Francis.
Sharma, M. (2021). Review of Community-Based Art Education Across the Lifespan: Finding Common Ground. Studies in Art Education. 62(1), 96--99. Routledge.
Sharma, M. (2020). Guest Column for Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education. NAEA News. 62(4), .
Sharma, M., Sutters, J. P. (2020). Travels, Encounters and Relationship Building in International Art Education.
Sharma, M. (2019). A Metaphorical Conundrum.
Sharma, M. (2019). Guest Column for Community Art Caucus. NAEA News. 61(2), .
Black, R., Garber, E., Neff, Y. E., Sharma, M. (2016). A quest for sacred knowledge: Mentorship to partnership. Other. 5(3), 273--290. Intellect.
Sharma, M. (2016). Disney and the Ethnic Other: A Semiotic Analysis of American Identity. Other. 477, 95--107. Peter Lang AG.
Sharma, M. (2016). Identities of art education in contemporary India: Reality, Rhizome and Assemblage. Other. 19(1), .
Sharma, M. (2016). Identities of art education in contemporary India: Reality, Rhizome and Assemblage Identidades da Arte Educa\cc\~ao na \'India Contempor\^anea: Realidade, Rizoma e Assembrage.
Sharma, M. (2015). Mythical Beings and Becoming: Emerging Identities of Art Educators in India. Other. 32, .
Sharma, M. (2014). Undisciplined Space. Other. 111--126. Rowman \& Littlefield Lanham, MD.
Alexander, A., Sharma, M. (2013). (Pre) determined Occupations: The Post-Colonial Hybridizing of Identity and Art Forms in Third World Spaces. Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. 33(1), 86--104.
M.A Thesis
Sharma, M. (2002). Reclaiming Social Agency Through Art Education: The Role of Popular Iconography and of the Book Form as Text in Contemporary India. School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Newsletter
Sharma, M. (2022). Valuing service as labor. NAEA News. (Number 5), . VA: NAEA. https://www.arteducators.org/community/articles/1039-caucus-for-social-theory-in-art-education-cstae-column-winter-2022?UserId=aa29a7ce-9bc5-4317-9484-a23d7b2af4dc&sso=905c7bc5-fc67-4a8e-80fb-d4deada2c1e4
Other
Garber, E., Hochtritt, L., Sharma, M. (2018). Makers, crafters, educators: Working for cultural change. Routledge.
Ph.D. Thesis
Sharma, M. (2012). Indian art education and teacher identity as Deleuzo-Guattarian assemblage: Narratives in a postcolonial globalization context. The Ohio State University.

Presentations Given

Demonstration

Sharma, M. (Leader), Garber, E. (Leader), Hochtritt, L. (Leader), International Society of Education through Art Conference, Expanding and Playing with Meaning through Object Narratives, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Canada. (2019).

Sharma, M. (Leader), Garber, E. (Leader), Hochtritt, L. (Leader), International Society of Education through Art Conference, Makers, Crafters, Educators: Identity, Culture, and Experimentation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Canada. (2019).

Invited Talk

Sharma, M. (Panelist), NAEA Annual Convention, Reconceptualizing Postdigital Studioing for Collective–Creative Participation in Art Education, San Antonio TX, United States of America. (2023).

Lecture

Sharma, M. (Presenter), South Asian Art and Visual Culture, Arizona State University, United States of America. (2020).

Sharma, M. (Presenter), South Asian Art and Visual Culture, University of Arizona, United States of America. (2020).

Sharma, M. (Presenter), Grounded Theory Methods, VCU, United States of America. (2020).

Sharma, M. (Presenter), South Asian Visual Culture, Arizona State University, United States of America. (2019).

Sharma, M. (Presenter), Grounded Theory Methodology, University of Arizona, United States of America. (2019).

Sharma, M. (Presenter), Speaking for and of Others: Art of Class in Contemporary India, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Sharma, M. (Presenter), International School Teaching, Maryland Institute College of Art, United States of America. (2018).

Panel Presentation

Souza, O. (Panelist), Sharma, M. (Panelist), Denmead, T. (Panelist), Garcia, A. (Panelist), The Onstead Institute, Department of Art Education present: Education as Experimentation 3 Symposium, Studious Drift: Movements and Protocols for a Postdigital Education, University of North Texas, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America. (2022 – ).

Sharma, M. (Author & Presenter), Kachru, P. G. (Author & Presenter), Experiments in Media Practice and Performativity, SLSA Conference, Alien-nation, SLSA, Tempe AZ, United States of America. (2023).

Sharma, M. (Coordinator/Organizer), NAEA Annual Convention, Decolonizing the Arts, San Antonio TX, United States of America. (2023).

Sharma, M. (Moderator), National Art Education Association (NAEA) Conference, Decolonizing the Arts, UNT (research startup funds), New York, NY, United States of America. (2022).

Sharma, M. (Panelist), Imaginative Futures: Arts-Based Research as Boundary, Seeking singularities: Performing research as an exercise in self-conciousness, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America. (2019).

Sharma, M. (Panelist), 6th Arts Based and Artistic Research Conference, Panel on decolonization, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Canada. (2019).

Sharma, M. (Panelist), NAEA Conference, Navigating the Loop: From practice to theory and theory to practice, NAEA, Boston, MA, United States of America. (2019).

Sharma, M. (Panelist), NAEA Meeting, "Immigrant Other" as Futurity in Art Education Curriculum, NAEA, Boston, MA, United States of America. (2019).

Sharma, M. (Leader), E. (Leader), Hochtritt, L. (Leader), NAEA Conference, Makers, Crafters, Educators: Working for Cultural Change, NAEA, Boston, MA, United States of America. (2019).

Paper

Sharma, M. (Author & Presenter), Alexander, A. (Author & Presenter), InSEA World Congress, The faults of our nations: Arts Education addressing the effects of nation and empire building, InSEA, Cannakale, Turkey, Turkey. (2023).

Sharma, M. (Presenter), Graduate Research in Art Education, Personal, Communal: Conversing at Borders in Art Education, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Professional Meeting Contribution

Sharma, M. (Panelist), NAEA Annual Convention, CSTAE Town Hall Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America. (2023).

Sharma, M. (Coordinator/Organizer), NAEA Annual Convention, CSTAE Executive Board Business Meeting, San Antonio, TX, United States of America. (2023).

Sharma, M. (Leader), National Art Education Association (NAEA) Conference, CSTAE Town Hall Meeting, UNT (research startup funds), New York, NY, United States of America. (2022).

Symposium

Sharma, M. (Author & Presenter), Designing the Pluriversity, Workhorse/Warhorse, Arizona State University, Phoenix Arizona/ Virtual Symposium, United States of America. (2022).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Teaching
Du, Y. (Co-Principal), Evans, L. E. (Co-Principal), Roeschley, A. (Co-Principal), Sharma, M. (Co-Principal), Hyland, P. (Co-Principal), "Stewarding Cultural Heritage: Latino Art, Museums, and Preservation Fellowship (LAMP Fellowship)," Sponsored by Institute of Museum and Library Services, Federal, $396362 Funded. (September 29, 2023 – 2026).
Sharma, M., "Inclusion and Diversity Curriculum Development Grant," Sponsored by University of Arizona, State, $1500 Funded. (2020).
Sharma, M., "Faculty Professional Development Endowment," Sponsored by University of Arizona, State, $5000 Funded. (2018).

Awards and Honors

Doctoral Research in Art Education Award, The International Society for Education through The Arts. (July 2014 – Present).

Manuel Barkan Dissertation Award, The Ohio State University. (April 17, 2012 – Present).

Service

University Service

Faculty Mentor, VAP Mentoring Program. (April 2022 – Present).

Committee Member, Onstead Art Education Dissertation Award. (2022 – Present).

Committee Member, Academic Leadership Committee. (August 2021 – Present).

Member, CVAD Leadership Team. (August 2021 – Present).

Committee Member, Faculty Search for Studio Art department. (July 2023 – August 2023).

Member, Nasher Lecture Series Ad Hoc Committee. (August 2022 – November 2022).

Professional Service

Editorial Review Board Member, Academic Review Board for Journal of Art Education Pakistan. (2020 – Present).

Member, Council of Policy Studies in Art Education. (2018 – Present).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Visual Culture and Gender Journal. (March 2016 – Present).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Visual Arts Research Journal. (2016 – Present).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Visual Inquiry Journal. (2019 – 2023).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. (2016 – 2023).

External T&P Letter Writer, University of North Carolina Wilmington. (August 2023).

External T&P Letter Writer, Cambridge University. (June 2023).

External T&P Letter Writer, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. (March 2023).

Editor, Journal Editor, Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. (2021 – 2022).

Editor, Associate Editor, Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. (2020 – 2021).

Editor, Journal Editor, Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. (2020 – 2021).

Program Coordinator, Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education. (2015 – 2021).

Reviewer, Conference Paper, American Educators Research Association. (2019).

Reviewer, Book, Routledge and CRC Press Higher Education. (2019).

Editorial Review Board Member, Academic Review Board. (2017 – 2019).