who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Jimmy Smith
Independent Scholar
Keywords
Deborah L Smith-Shank
The Ohio State University,
Department of Art Education, 1288 S.
4th Street, Columbus, OH, 43206,
United States of America
Keywords art education, material
culture
Ismail Özgür Soğancı
Anadolu University, Yunusemre
Kampusü, Eskisehir, 26470, Turkey
Keywords art education, cultural
exchange programmes, Erasmus
› Art, governance and the turn to community: Lessons from a national action
research project on community art and local government in Australia,
Journal of Arts & Communities, 2.1, 27-40.
Jimmy Smith studied Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art, and
is a graphic artist, writer and collector/scholar of comics and graphic
novels. Jimmy is currently researching a number of projects, including
articles on obscure nineteenth century cartoonists and the Japanese
horror comics of Suehiro Maruo and Hideshi Hino. He is also writing
and designing his own graphic stories exploring folklore, historical
events, fairy tales and the supernatural.
› Beyond Maus: The experimental comics of Art Spiegelman, Book 2.0, 1.1,
47-56.
Deborah Smith-Shank is Professor of Art Education at The Ohio State
University; Chair of Undergraduate Studies and Licensure. Her
research focuses on material culture examined through semiotic and
feminist lenses. She is VicePresident of the International Society for
Education Through Art (http://www. insea.org/), and co-editor of
Visual Culture & Gender, an international, multimedia, juried journal
(http://www.emitto.net/visualculturegender).
› The city as a site for interdisciplinary teaching and learning, International
Journal of Education through Art, 7.1, 27-40.
Ismail Özgür Soğancı was born in Turkey in 1974. After graduating
from the Department of Art Education at Gazi University, he worked as
an art teacher in different levels of the Turkish schooling system for
two years until he wasawarded the International Graduate Scholarship
by the Turkish Ministry of Education in 1999. In the frame of this
scholarship, Soğancı completed his Masters and Doctorate at Arizona
State University in the field of Art Education. In 2005, he started
teaching at Anadolu University in Turkey asan assistant professor.
Currently serving in the InSEA World Council as a representative of
the Middle East Region, he is actively involved in cultural exchange
programmes such as Erasmus as coordinator. His recent research