Earthworks

Dr. Christine Ballengee-Morris

Professor Emeritus in the Arts Administration, Education and Policy Department
Email
morris.390@osu.edu
Links
Professional website

Areas of Expertise

  • Visual Culture and Critical Race Theory
  • American Indian Studies
  • Integrated Curriculum

 

Education

  • 1995 PhD, Art Education, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
  • 1992 MA, Art Education, Miami University, Oxford, OH
  • 1980 BS, Art Education, Miami University, Oxford, OH

 

Dr. Christine Ballengee Morris is a Professor in the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy, was founding Director of the Multicultural Center at Ohio State, and former Coordinator of American Indian Studies. Dr. Ballengee Morris' research interests include self-determination, earthworks, identity development, Indigenous arts, integrated curricula, service-learning, and arts-based research. Prior to coming to Ohio State, Dr. Morris worked as a curricula developer for a children's art museum in Charleston, WV and taught in public schools for over a decade. In addition to her scholarship and teaching, Dr. Ballengee Morris is a performing artist, who has held numerous artists-in-residence positions in several states with her late husband, David E. Morris.

She has served as editor for Art Education, commentary editor for Studies and several other editorial boards. Her service includes being an National Art Education Fellow and past president of the United States Society for Teaching through Art. Dr. Ballengee-Morris's teaching experiences include: fourteen years in the public school system, twenty years as an artist-in-residence in public schools and five countries, higher education since 1992, and international teaching. In 2007, she co-authored a book titled Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching art in high school (NAEA Publications), 2012 Stand Up For Change, and 2019 Transforming Our Practice. She has received, 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); 2000 The Ohio State University at Newark research and service award; NAACP Licking County, Ohio’s Young Native American Woman leadership award and The Ohio State University’s Diversity Award (2014).
 
Ballengee Morris’ research interest include self-determination, identity development, Indigenous arts, integrated curricula, service-learning, visual culture, and arts-based research. Her work was influenced by Paulo Freire and was given an opportunity to meet and interview him in 1996. Her research and service to the field demonstrate her commitment to education as an agent of community change.

 

Ongoing Newark Earthwork's Center's Research

  • Ancient Indigenous Monuments and Modern Indigenous Art Grant

 

Research

  • Contemporary American Indian Arts: Including Earthworks YouTube Lecture.
    • February 11, 2015.
  • "Earthworks: Rise and Tell" by Marti Chaatsmith (Comanche Nation citizen, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma descendant) and Dr. Christine Ballengee-Morris in the Fifth Session: Through Space and Time on April 12, 2018 T at "Metaphors of Time: An Interdisciplinary Conversation Across the Arts, Humanities and Sciences," April 11-12, 2018. Paper in publication. 
    • Sponsored by The Ohio State University Office of Research, Jewish Studies at Fordham University, The Thomas and Diann Mann Distinguished Symposium Fund, The Melton Center for Jewish Studies at Ohio State, The Departments of NELC and Philosophy at The Ohio State University.
  • Earthworks Rising
  • "Earthworks rising: emerging roles within collaborations for indigenous knowledge." Christine Ballengee-Morris; Marti Chaatsmith; Glenna Wallace. Replanting cultures:community-engaged scholarship in Indian country. Benjamin Barnes and Stephen Warren. State University of New York Press (SUNY Press), 2022.
  • "Indigenous Values Infuse the World Heritage Movement"
  • Interview of Christine Ballengee-Morris [Transcript and Audio Available]
    • Nic Flores, Knowledge Bank. 2015.
  • "They Came, They Claimed, They Named, and We Blame: Art Education in Negotiation and Conflict." Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research. Vol. 51, Issue 3. 2010. pg 275-287. [external link, OSU login required].
  • Transforming our practices: indigenous art, pedagogies and philosophies. edited by Christine Ballengee-Morris and Kryssi Staikidis. National Art Education Association. 2017. [Library copy link]
  • Virtual World Heritage Ohio
    • Newark Earthworks GIS Web Map
    • Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, Ball State's Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (IDIA Lab), Applied Anthropology Laboratories (AAL), The Works, Ohio History Connection, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the Shawnee Tribe.

 

Awards

Dr, Christine Ballengee-Morris, Department of Arts Administration, Education, and Policy | The Ohio State University