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Dr. Stacy Otto

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Biography

Stacy Otto, Ph.D. is Professor of Social Foundations of Education and Qualitative Inquiry, earning her doctorate in Social Foundations from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a graduate certificate in Cultural Studies, also from UNC, in 2000. She earned an MA in Curriculum and Instruction from UNC, and a Bachelor of Arts in studio art from Indiana University.

Current Courses

523.001Critical Historical Foundations of Education

599.036Dissertation Research

235.001Historical Foundations

235.002Historical Foundations

228.002Social Foundations Of Education

228.004Social Foundations Of Education

599.036Dissertation Research

235.002Historical Foundations

228.002Social Foundations Of Education

228.003Social Foundations Of Education

Teaching Interests & Areas

Otto teaches doctoral-level courses in the philosophy of science, analytic writing, critical social theory, history of childhood, and post-colonial theory, helping students understand and use critical theory for their own empirical and conceptual analyses. Otto teaches doctoral-level courses in beginning through advanced qualitative research. She is a qualitative research methodologist, meaning she theorizes new and existing qualitative philosophies of method.

Research Interests & Areas

Otto’s interdisciplinary scholarship ranges from her work as a social theorist (on educating for and during loss and mourning; on patriarchy’s inherent, inescapable violence; on various aspects of visual culture and schooling; on racism and race-based policing as terrorism; and theorizing unrequitedness, for example), to her work theorizing qualitative research methodologies (most recently revisioning teaching qualitative data analysis) and reporting empirical qualitative research.

Ph D Social Foundations of Education

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

MA Curriculum & Instruction

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

BA Studio Art: Printmaking, Papermaking, & Bookbinding

Indiana University, Bloomington

Past-President

Society of Philosophy and History of Education
2017

Past-President

Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society (OVPES)
2016

President

Society of Philosophy and History of Education
2016

Manahan Family Endowed Teaching Award

Educational Administration & Foundations, Illinois State University
2015

President

Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society (OVPES)
2015

President-Elect

Society of Philosophy and History of Education
2015

President-Elect

Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society (OVPES)
2014

Spencer Foundation Institute for Graduate Students in Philosophy of Education

Spencer Foundation and the American Educational Research Association
2014

Recipient, Distinguished Faculty Award

Oklahoma State University
2013

Nominee, Outstanding University Teaching Award

College of Education, Illinois State University
2013

Book, Chapter

Otto, S. Visual Culture. Handbook of Research in the Social Foundations of Education. Routledge (2010)

Creative Works/Broadcast Media

Otto, S. Covetous: Desire and the Lens. Catalogue Essay, National Invitational Photography Exhibition, Gardiner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University (2003)

Journal Article

Otto, S. “A Few Bad Apples”: Patriarchy, Misogyny, Terrorism, and the Persistent Myth of Aberration. Journal of Philosophy and History of Education 68.1 (2018)
Otto, S. Confronting the Difficulty of Disavowing Belonging. Journal of Philosophy and History of Education 66.1 (2016)
Hartlep, N., Porfilio, B., Otto, S., & O'Brien, K. What We Stand For, Not Against: Presenting Our Teacher-Education Colleagues with the Case for Social Foundations in PK–12, Teacher-Preparation Programs. Educational Foundations 29.1–4 (2015)
Otto, S. A Garden from Ashes: The Post-9/11, Manhattan City-Shrine, the Triangle Fire Memorial March, and the Educative Value of Mourning. Peter Stearns, Ph.D. (EDs). Journal of Social History 47.3 (2014)
Otto, S. Policing Terror: Reconsidering the Lives and Deaths of America’s Michael Browns. Journal of Philosophy and History of Education 64.1 (2014)

Presentations

Disability Passing, Passing as Sighted, and Their Roots in Racial Passing: A History. Society of Philosophy and History of Education 2020 Annual Meeting. (2020)
“A Few Bad Apples”: Patriarchy, Misogyny, Terrorism, and the Persistent Myth of Aberration. Society of Philosophy and History of Education Annual Meeting. (2018)
Creating One’s Kingdom of Art: The Teenage Bedroom as Ecology of Childhood Imagination. Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting. (2018)
Invigorating Connections: What Regional and National Philosophy of Education Societies Do, Why We Matter, and How You Can Get Involved. Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meeting. (2018)
Justice Long Longed-For: Unrequitedness and Pursuit of the Dream of Love. Society of Philosophy and History of Education Annual Meeting. (2017)
Mourning and Forgetting: Memory and Reaching Abroad to Trouble the Myth of “Closure”. American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting. (2017)
“To Press My Lips Against Your Skin”: Toward a Theory of the Unrequited and Unrequitable. Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meeting. (2017)
Becoming a superhero: On trading the comforts of belonging for the obscurity of outsider-ness. Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meeting. (2016)
Mourning and the End of Everything: Media Culture’s Manifestations of the Coming Epochal Shift. American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting. (2016)
Pretty As a Powerful Passport: The Curious, Empty Cult of Beauty, Smartness, and Girls’ Self-Worth. Critical Media Literacy Conference. (2016)

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