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CHRISTINE MARMÉ THOMPSON, Ph.D.
Professor of Art Education

Christine Marmé Thompson is a professor in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State, and coordinates graduate programs in art education. Professor Thompson earned her Ph.D. in art education at The University of Iowa in 1985, and taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1985-2001. Her research focuses on issues of children's culture and art learning. Professor Thompson's writings have appeared in national and international journals in art and early childhood education, and in numerous edited collections. She is co-editor, with Liora Bresler, of The Arts in Children's Lives: Context, Culture, and Curriculum (2002), published by Kluwer Academic Press, and editor of The Visual Arts and Early Childhood Learning (1995), published by the National Art Education Association (NAEA). She currently serves on the editorial board of Studies in Art Education, and as book review editor for Visual Arts Research. Dr. Thompson was president of the Seminar for Research in Art Education from 2003-2005. A member of the Council for Policy Studies in Art Education, Professor Thompson received the Mary Rouse Award (1995) and the June King Mc Fee Award (2005) from the Women's Caucus of NAEA, and the Marilyn Zurmuehlen Award (1994) from the Seminar for Research in Art Education.