Meet the coordinators *
Meet the coordinators *
Dr. Mira Kallio-Tavin
Professor of Art
Received a Doctorate of Arts from Aalto University. Mira is Distinguished Professor of Art in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia. Dr. Kallio-Tavin focuses her research on critical artistic and arts-based research in questions of decolonialism, immigration, disability studies, and critical animal studies. Her artistic practice takes forms mostly through video and painting. Dr. Kallio-Tavin serves as Vice President of the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) and is the Co-Chair of the Art Education Research Institute (AERI). She is the Associate Editor-elect of the Studies in Art Education journal. She is the founder of the International Disability Studies, Arts and Education (iDSAE) conference. She has a publishing record of 90 articles and is the author and editor of six books.
Dr. Mirka Koro
Professor of Qualitative Research
Mirka Koro (Ph.D., University of Helsinki) is a Professor of qualitative research and Director of doctoral programs at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University. Her scholarship operates in the intersection of qualitative inquiry, methodologies, philosophy, and socio-cultural critique. She has published in various qualitative, methodological, and educational journals. She is also the author of “Reconceptualizing qualitative research: Methodologies without methodology (2016), Knowledge production in material spaces: Disturbing conferences and composing events (2022) and co-editor of Disrupting data in qualitative inquiry: Entanglements with the Post-Critical and Post-Anthropocentric (2017) and Intra-Public intellectualism: Critical qualitative inquiry in the Academy (2021).”