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Research Interests

Art Education

Education

University of North Texas, PhD in Art Education, 2018

The University of Texas at Austin, MA in Art Education, 2008

Tulane University, BA in Art Studio and African and African Diaspora Studies, 2001

Professional Information

Dr. Sarah Travis is Assistant Professor and Program Chair of Art Education in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a former K-12 art teacher from New Orleans. Dr. Travis uses narrative, phenomenological, and arts-based inquiry methods to critically examine issues around identity and experience and to explore how art education can be an active process of resistance to oppression that is also a pathway for joyful, creative, and collaborative agency. She has published journal articles in Art Education, Studies in Art Education, The Urban Review, International Journal of Education & the Arts, Journal for Cultural Research in Art Education, and Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. Dr. Travis is Co-Editor of the journal Visual Arts Research, published by University of Illinois Press. In addition, she is co-editor of the books Pedagogies in the Flesh: Case Studies on the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education (Palgrave, 2018) and Experiments in Art Research: How Do We Live Questions Through Art? (Routledge, 2024).

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