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168 Chambers

Campus: University Park

Second office: 107 Arts Cottage, 814-863-7314

Departments: School of Visual Arts, Curriculum & Instruction
Program: Curriculum and Instruction

Dr. Powell received her Ph. D. from Stanford University. She holds a joint appointment between Curriculum and Instruction (Program in Language, Culture, and Society) and Art Education. She is a practicing musician and artist, has taught in community centers and after-school program, and has worked as an arts consultant for school districts. A curriculum theorist and educational anthropologist, her research and publication interests include arts integration, the social and cultural study of arts and aesthetics in relation to race, identity, and the politics of education, the body as both a mode of knowing and a field for inquiry in education, nonformal learning environments, and qualitative methodology. Her dissertation, "Learning Together: Practice, Pleasure, and Identity in a Taiko Drumming World," received the 2007 Outstanding Dissertation Award for excellence in educational anthropology from the American Anthropological Association and a 2004 honorable mention for its significance to the field from the Arts and Learning Special Interest Group of the American Education Research Association.