Christine Ballengee-Morris is Associate Professor in the Art Education Department and American Indian Studies Coordinator at the Ohio State University. She is past president of the United States Society for Teaching Through Art. She is trained to lead social justice workshops and mediation and has served in those positions for several companies, universities, departments, and community organizations. She is a Cherokee-Appalachian. She has received the 2008 National Art Education Higher Education, Western Division Award; the 2007 Ziegfeld Award for Diversity; the 2006 National Art Education Grigsby Award (research in and commitment to diversity); the 2000 OSU-Newark Research and Service Award; and the NAACP Licking County, Ohio’s Young Native American Woman Leadership Award.
Keywords: heritage, economic policy, identity, representation, craft

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