Manisha Sharma

Previous Scheduled Teaching

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.

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. (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).