Dr. Ballengee Morris is a Professor in the Arts Administration, Education, and Policy Department and Interim Director of the Barnett Center, Integrated Arts and Enterprise for The Ohio State University. She was the founding director of The Multicultural Center at OSU. In 2007, she co-authored, Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching art in high school; in 2012, Stand(ing) Up for Change; in 2015 Visual culture, representations, and misrepresentations; and her new book, co-authored with Kryssi Staikidis, Contemporary American Indian Art, Pedagogy, and Research. She has received numerous awards such as: The Woman’s Achievement Award, YWCA, 2016; The Ohio State University Diversity award, 2014; June King McFee Award, National Art Education Association, 2013; National Art Education Association Fellow, 2012; National Art Education Higher Education Western Division Award, 2008; the Ziegfeld Award for Diversity, 2007; and the National Art Education Grigsby Award (research in and commitment to diversity) 2006.

She has received many grants including a NEH and HASTEC grant for her work in developing a participatory game-based website Earthworks Rising, housed by OSU. Ballengee Morris’ research interest include self-determination, identity development, Indigenous arts, integrated curricula, service-learning, visual culture, and arts-based research. As an Eastern Band Cherokee, she is dedicated to advocacy and service to American Indian students and issues.