Art Education
College of Arts and Architecture
School of Visual Arts
KIMBERLY POWELL, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art Education and Curriculum and Instruction
Dr. Kimberly Powell has a dual faculty appointment in the School of Visual Arts and the College of Education. Powell earned her Ph.D. in education at Stanford University. Her dissertation, Learning Together: Practice, Pleasure, and Identity in a Taiko Drumming World, involved an ethnographic study of a professional community-based performance ensemble. Her research interests include the sociocultural study of artistic practice, cultural studies, educational anthropology, and youth civic engagement. Since 1997, she has been responsible for the facilitation of coursework for teachers, administrators and other educators at Harvard's Project Zero's annual week-long summer institute. In 2004, Dr. Powell was awarded a $50,000 CIRCLE Foundation grant for research concerning the online potential of deliberative dialogue and civic development.