Wanda B. Knight, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. In 2015-2016, she served in the Academic Leadership Program of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and the Penn State Administrative Fellows Program, with the Executive Vice President and Provost as mentor. Knight has served as a public school art teacher, public school principal, and associate curator of an art museum. She is former president of the United States Society for Education through Art, and past chair of the National Art Education Association’s Committee on Multi-Ethnic Concerns. A previous editor of the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, she has published and presented her research concerning culturally competent teaching and entanglements of difference (race, class, gender) in leading scholarly venues. Knight’s honors include the National Art Education Associations J. Eugene Grigsby Jr. Award for outstanding contribution to the field of art education, thePennsylvania Outstanding Higher Education Art Educator Award, and the Kenneth Marantz Distinguished Alumni Award from The Ohio State University, where she earned her Ph.D.
