Harriet Walker, PhD

Harriet Walker

Business and Liberal Arts Center, Room B634

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Education

PhD, Louisiana State University

Biography

Harriet Walker grew up on a farm in Shakopee, Minnesota. She spent her early career as a elementary school teacher in Denver and New Orleans, where she also worked as a reading resource teacher in the Orleans Parish Public Schools.

Walker interned at the National Museum for African Art (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, DC and later worked as a writer for J. Paul Getty Center for Education in the Arts in Santa Monica, CA. Before coming to FIT, Walker was assistant professor in the Graduate Education Department at the University of Massachusetts in Boston and a curatorial assistant in African art at The Newark Museum in New Jersey.

Walker holds a BA in Elementary Education from The College of St Catherine in St. Paul, MN, an MEd in Reading Education from Loyola University, a MPhil in Art History from the Graduate Center in New York, and a PhD in Art Education from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. 

Selected Publications

Walker H. “Beneath the Surface of Ghanian Photographs,” in the Conference Proceedings, Images of African Peoples: Photography, History and Culture in Africa and the African Diaspora, Eastern Illinois University, March 31-April 2, 2006.

Walker, H. “Franco-African influences on the material culture of Historic New Orleans.” In J. Jackson (Ed.). Francophone Noir. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.

Walker, H. (2002). “Artworld of Betye Saar,” in M. Erickson and B. Young (Eds.), Artworlds in Transition (pp. 17-21).  Reston, VA: National Art Education Association.

Walker, H. (2001). “Images of women in the art of Jan Vermeer and the seventeenth century Dutch genre painters.”  The Journal of Gender Issues in Art and Education, 2, 46-60. Reston, VA: Women’s Caucus, National Art Education Association.

Walker, H. (2001). “Interviewing local artists: A curriculum resource in art teaching.”  Studies in Art Education, 42 (3), 249-266.

Walker, H., Davidson, B., and Dell, G. (2001). “In-school clubs: Impacting teaching and learning for at-risk students,” in B. LeTendre (Ed.) Accelerated Schools Special Interest Group Conference Proceedings (pp. 31-55). Storrs, CT: National Center for Accelerated Schools.

Walker, H. (1999). “African American art: A Los Angeles legacy,” in Worlds of Art.  Education resource available online.

Courses

  • HA 223 African Art and Civilization
  • HA 230 Modern and Contemporary African Art