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
EAF 599.036 Dissertation Research
EAF 228.006 Social Foundations Of Education
EAF 228.008 Social Foundations Of Education
EAF 228.009 Social 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
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Leadership for Social Justice Teaching Award
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
2012
Nominee, Vice President [ascends to President]
American Educational Studies Association
2012
Invited Panel Participant, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division D Spotlight Session on Methodological Responsibility
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division D
2012
Outstanding College of Education Teacher
College of Education, Illinois State University
2009
Big XII Faculty Fellow
Oklahoma State University and The University of Nebraska at Lincoln
2003
Performances and Exhibits
The Vagina Monologues
Stacy Otto.
January 2004 - February 2004
Stacy Otto.
January 2004 - February 2004
Book, Chapter
Visual Culture
Stacy Otto.
(2010), Handbook of Research in the Social Foundations of Education, Routledge
Creative Works/Broadcast Media
Covetous: Desire and the Lens
Stacy Otto.
Catalogue Essay, National Invitational Photography Exhibition, Gardiner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University, (2003)
Journal Article
“A Few Bad Apples”: Patriarchy, Misogyny, Terrorism, and the Persistent Myth of Aberration
Stacy Otto.
Journal of Philosophy and History of Education, 68 (1), (2018)
Confronting the Difficulty of Disavowing Belonging
Stacy Otto.
Journal of Philosophy and History of Education, 66 (1), (2016)
What We Stand For, Not Against: Presenting Our Teacher-Education Colleagues with the Case for Social Foundations in PK–12, Teacher-Preparation Programs
Nicholas D. Hartlep, Brad Porfilio, Stacy Otto, Kathleen O'Brien.
Educational Foundations, 29 (1–4), (2015)
A Garden from Ashes: The Post-9/11, Manhattan City-Shrine, the Triangle Fire Memorial March, and the Educative Value of Mourning
Stacy Otto.
Journal of Social History, 47 (3), (2014)
Intended Consequences: Examining White Teachers’ Habitus and its Influence in Urban Schools Implementing an Arts-Based Educational Reform
Susan Woollen, Stacy Otto.
The Urban Review: Issues & Ideas in Public Education, 46 (1), (2014)
Policing Terror: Reconsidering the Lives and Deaths of America’s Michael Browns
Stacy Otto.
Journal of Philosophy and History of Education, 64 (1), (2014)
Desperate Measures: Shifts in Power, High-Stakes Accountability, and the Beat of War in U.S. Public Education
Stacy Otto.
Philosophical Studies in Education, 44 (1), (2013)
The Inevitability of Sleep: Using Manet’s Last Paintings to Envision a Pedagogy of Loss and Mourning
Stacy Otto.
The Review of Education, Pedagogy, & Cultural Studies, 35 (5), (2013)
Battling the Myth of Meritocracy: Educating for and about Democracy’s Collectivist Intent
Stacy Otto.
Journal of Philosophy and History of Education, 62 (1), (2012)
Heeding Woolf’s Great Teacher: Uncovering and Defusing an Education in “Unreal Loyalties”
Stacy Otto.
Democracy & Education, 20 (2), (2012)
A Demanding Reality: Print-Media Advertising and Selling Smartness in a Knowledge Economy
Beth Hatt, Stacy Otto.
Educational Studies, 47 (6), (2011)
Collective Outcry: The Educative Meaning and Value of Spontaneously Created Shrines
Stacy Otto.
Journal of Philosophy and History of Education, 59 (1), (2010)
Discovering the More: Reading Wright’s, Colette’s, and Cather’s Texts as Philosophy of Education
Virginia Worley, Stacy Otto, Lucy Bailey.
Educational Studies, 46 (2), (2010)
The Balancing Act: Arts Integration and High-Stakes Testing
Linnea van Eman, Jerilyn Thorman, Diane Montgomery, Stacy Otto.
Journal for Learning through the Arts: A Research Journal on Arts Integration in Schools and Communities, 3 (2), (2008)
Beneath and Beyond Truth: Studying Literary Narratives to Research Human Phenomena
Stacy Otto.
International Journal of Research and Method in Education (IJRME), 10 (1), (2007)
Becoming Hurston: Journey and Quest in 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'
Stacy Otto.
Journal of Philosophy & History of Education, 56 (1), (2006)
Nostalgic for What?: The Epidemic of Images of the Mid-Twentieth-Century American Classroom in Media Culture and What It Means
Stacy Otto.
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 26 (4), (2005)
Other
Project CREATES: Connecting Community Resources Encouraging All Teachers to Educate with Spirit
Diane Montgomery, Stacy Otto, Debra F. Hull.
Oklahoma State University, (2007)
Presentations
Disability Passing, Passing as Sighted, and Their Roots in Racial Passing: A History
Stacy Otto, Molly Pasley.
Society of Philosophy and History of Education 2020 Annual Meeting, online, October 5, 2020
“A Few Bad Apples”: Patriarchy, Misogyny, Terrorism, and the Persistent Myth of Aberration
Stacy Otto.
Society of Philosophy and History of Education Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, September, 2018
Invigorating Connections: What Regional and National Philosophy of Education Societies Do, Why We Matter, and How You Can Get Involved
Stacy Otto.
Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March, 2018
Creating One’s Kingdom of Art: The Teenage Bedroom as Ecology of Childhood Imagination
Stacy Otto.
Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, March, 2018
Mourning and Forgetting: Memory and Reaching Abroad to Trouble the Myth of “Closure”
Stacy Otto.
American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November, 2017
“To Press My Lips Against Your Skin”: Toward a Theory of the Unrequited and Unrequitable
Stacy Otto.
Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meeting, Mundelein, IL, October, 2017
Justice Long Longed-For: Unrequitedness and Pursuit of the Dream of Love
Stacy Otto.
Society of Philosophy and History of Education Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, September, 2017
Mourning and the End of Everything: Media Culture’s Manifestations of the Coming Epochal Shift
Stacy Otto.
American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, September, 2016
Becoming a superhero: On trading the comforts of belonging for the obscurity of outsider-ness
Stacy Otto.
Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meeting, Dayton, OH, September, 2016
Pretty As a Powerful Passport: The Curious, Empty Cult of Beauty, Smartness, and Girls’ Self-Worth
Stacy Otto.
Critical Media Literacy Conference, Normal, IL, March, 2016
One Year On: Mourning, Protest, and the New Civil Rights Movement
Stacy Otto.
Society of Philosophy and History of Education Annual MeetingSt. Louis, MO, St. Louis, MO, October, 2015
Disciplined Imagination and Other Oxymorons, Part II: Exploring the Continuing Vagaries of Teaching Qualitative Data Analysis
Stacy Otto, Michael G Gunzenhauser.
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, April, 2014
“Durable But Not Eternal!”: Arts-Based Educational Reform and White Teachers’ Changing Habitus
Stacy Otto, Susan Woollen.
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, April, 2014
The Money Shot: Don Jon Reveals the Neoliberal Economy’s Interest in Desire
Stacy Otto.
Critical Media Literacy Conference, Normal, IL, March, 2014