Doctoral Dissertations

The following is a list of Doctoral Dissertations that utilize A/R/Tography as a methodology. To access the abstract of the thesis (and in some cases, the full thesis) — please click on the link next to the title. 

Please Note That These Works Mention Or Use A/R/Tography And Not All Of Them Focus On A/R/Tography Explicitly. 

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2022

Gordon, R. R. (2022). Laboring for the Motherland: A Mother-Artist-Researcher-Teacher’s Reconfiguration of the State-Sponsored Transnational Teacher [Doctoral dissertation, Michigan State University]. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2673547857?pq-origsite=summon&accountid=14656

2021

Lee, N. Y. S. (2021). Squares for breathing, becoming, and beholding: Cultivating a relationship with the unknown [Doctoral dissertation, The University of British Columbia]. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0401116

Sievers-Hunt, T. S. (2021). Called to the Conversation: A Digital Ethnodrama Exploring Collisions of Calling and Shadow across a Cohort of Journeys into Professional Musicianhood [Doctoral dissertation, Oakland University]. Retrieved April 7, 2022, from https://www.proquest.com/docview/2634873371?pq-origsite=summon&accountid=14656

Søyland, L. (2021). Grasping materialities: Making sense through explorative touch interactions with materials and digital technologies [Doctoral dissertation, University of South-Eastern Norway]. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2756969

2020

Creps, K. B. (2020). Artful Teaching and Learning Abroad: An Arts-Based Education Abroad Research (ABEAR) Study [Doctoral dissertation, Michigan State University]. In ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. https://search.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/artful-teaching-learning-abroad-arts-based/docview/2425883743/se-2?accountid=41849

Smith, B. E. (2020). Being Against Disappearance : a photographic inquiry through an a/r/tographic lens [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0395390

2019

Bird, D. (2019). A living inquiry: Activating and integrating the multiple identities of dramatherapist, researcher, artist and teacher [Doctoral dissertation, University of Derby (United Kingdom)]. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2430794523?pq-origsite=summon&https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/advanced?accountid=14656

Godwin, J. T. (2019). Anti-racism and public pedagogy: Toward a theo-aesthetic approach [Doctoral dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]. In ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2235987025?pq-origsite=summon&https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/advanced?accountid=14656

Kuthy, D. L. (2019). Whitework: Uncovering the visual culture of whiteness through quiltmaking, history and art education curricula [Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland]. In ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2287714007?pq-origsite=summon&https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/advanced?accountid=14656

Malilang, C. S. (2019). A cross-cultural community of practice in creative writing [Doctoral dissertation, University of Macau]. In ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2321034833?pq-origsite=summon&https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/advanced?accountid=14656

2018

Clark, V. S. (2018). Gathering: An A/R/Tographic practice for teaching in early childhood care and education [Doctoral dissertation, University of victoria]. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/8927

Lloyd-Johnson, J. (2019). The out-of-school creative practice of an art teacher [Doctoral dissertation, University of Chester (United Kingdom)]. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2372155689?pq-origsite=summon&https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/advanced?accountid=14656

Wiley, K. A. (2018). Rendering, writing, and living curriculum: Experiences of the master builder at work [Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota]. In ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2189831090?pq-origsite=summon&https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/advanced?accountid=1465

Willcox, S. E. (2017). The A/R/T of renewal: Artistic inquiry as an alternative professional development – ProQuest [Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University]. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1948888401?pq-origsite=summon&https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/advanced?accountid=14656

2017

Rajabali, A. (2017). (Re)turning to the poetic I/eye : towards a literacy of light [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0343399

Crisel, C. M. N. (2017). Imaginal Artists of Rural Arkansas Through the Lens of A/r/tography [Doctoral dissertation, California Institute of Integral Studies]. In ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1950580968?pq-origsite=summon&https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/advanced?accountid=14656

Willcox, S. E. (2017). The A/R/T of renewal: Artistic inquiry as an alternative professional development [Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University]. In ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1948888401?pq-origsite=summon&https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/advanced?accountid=14656

Ziemsen, E. (2017). Developing a learning model for teaching film production online [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0361756

2016

Avgousti, N. (2016). Contemporary cypriot video art: An investigation of artistic practice and its educational implications for the visual arts curriculum (Order No. 10613502). [Doctoral dissertation, Middlesex University London]. Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1913434559).

Davis-Soylu, H. J. (2016). Touching an enigma: A memoir of making meaning through art – ProQuest [Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University]. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1767230756?pq-origsite=summon&https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/advanced?accountid=14656

Key, S. G. (2016). Images of identity : Understanding the professional identities of art educators through arts-based educational research [Doctoral dissertation, University of Exeter]. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/27095

McCartney, L. L. (2016). Unpacking self in clutter and cloth: Curator as artist/researcher/teacher [Doctoral dissertation, University of North Texas]. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849713/m1/1/

2015

Berk, S. G., & Uhrmacher, P. B. (2015). The ABC’s of Art Teacher Professional Identity: An A/r/tographic Investigation into the [Doctoral dissertation, University of Denver]. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/docview/1701284761?pq-origsite=summon&accountid=14656

Bishop, K. (2015). Spinning red yarn(s): Being artist/researcher/educator through playbuilding as qualitative research [Doctoral dissertation, University of Victoria]. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5853

2014

Bakan, D. L. (2014). A song of songs : a/r/tography, autoethnography, and songwriting as music education research [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0167101

Barret, T. A. (2014). Re-Marking places: An a/r/tography project exploring students’ and teachers’ senses of self, place, and community [Doctoral dissertation, University of Canterbury]. http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/9551

2012

Carter, M. R. (2012). The teacher monologues : exploring the experiences and identities of artist-teachers [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0055366

Mack, P. J. (2012). Inside Artist/Teacher Burnout [Doctoral dissertation, Arizona State University. https://repository.asu.edu/items/14896

Pourchier, A. N. (2012). Guided Wanderings: An A/r/tographic Inquiry into Postmodern Picturebooks, Bourdieusian Theory, and Writing [Doctoral dissertation, Georgia State University]. In Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/msit_diss/99

Rodriguez Naranjo, G. E. (2012). Personal a/r/tographic narratives of cultural displacement : in Latino American immigrants living in Canada [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0073184

White, A. (2012). Artistic frames: An arts-based study of teachers’ experiences with arts-integrated english language arts for students with dis/abilities [Doctoral dissertation, Georgia State University]. In Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/msit_diss/98

2011

Durham, D. B. (2011). ART, MUSIC, and STORY AT WOODS CHARTER SCHOOL An Exploration of A/r/tography Methods [Doctoral dissertation, East Carolina University]. In ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. 

Merritt Beare, D. (2011). Social art effect : the a/r/tography and complexity of theatre education learning systems, developmental stages, and change mechanisms [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0072447

2009

Barney, D. T. (2009). A study of dress through artistic inquiry : Provoking understandings of artist, researcher, and teacher identities [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0055260

Cullen-Reavill, M. F. (2009). Exploring the first year of teaching through focus group discussions, ethno -mimesis, a/r/tography, and performance ethnography [Doctoral dissertation, University of Denver]. In ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. https://www.proquest.com/docview/304876424?pq-origsite=summon&https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/advanced?accountid=14656

Dresser, K. E. (2009). Dancing with the dead generations after the Holocaust: A fictional blogged phenomenology and pedagogy of embodied post-Holocaust inherited memories via A/r/tography [Doctoral dissertation, The University of North Carolina]. In ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. https://www.proquest.com/docview/304965681?pq-origsite=summon&https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/advanced?accountid=14656

2008

Bickel, B. A. (2008). Living the divine spiritually and politically : art ritual and performative/pedagogy in women’s multi-faith leadership [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/972

Wiebe, P. S. (2008). What I meant to say about love : a poetic inquiry of un/authorized autobiography [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0066429

2007

Kalin, N. (2007). Conversations on teaching and learning drawing : drawn toward transformation [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0055228

2006

Bezerra Jr, B. D. (2006). Border epistemologies :  looking at Almodovar’s queer genders [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0107159

Gottlieb-Tanaka, D. (2006). Creative expression, dementia and the therapeutic environment [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0076821

Kind, S. C. (2006). Of stones and silences : Storying the trace of the other in the autobiographical and textile text of art/teaching [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0054667

MacKenzie, S. K. (2006). Ambiguous presence: (Re)searching the negotiations of be(com)ing teacher [Doctoral dissertation, Pennsylvania State University]. https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/7081

Pente, P. V. (2008). Being at the edge of landscape : Sense of place and pedagogy [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0055232

2003

de Cosson, A. F. (2003). (Re)searching sculpted A/r/tography : (Re)learning subverted-knowing through aporetic praxis [Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia]. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0091201