Eunkyung Hwang
Contact Information
- hwang.595@osu.edu
Areas of Expertise
- Critical Disability Studies
- Critical Access Studies
- Disabled Childhood Studies
- Able-Nationalism/Colonialism in (Post)colonial Education
- Critical Asian Studies
Education
- PhD (Dual-Titled) Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
- MEd Museum Education, Seoul National University of Education, South Korea
- BEd Elementary Education, Seoul National University of Education, South Korea
Eunkyung Hwang (she/they) is an Assistant Professor of Arts Administration, Education and Policy at The Ohio State University. Her scholarship examines ableist assumptions and structures in art education through critical disability studies and critical access studies. Her scholarly articles have appeared in journals including Art Education, Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, and Visual Culture & Gender. In 2025, she received several national and institutional awards recognizing her dissertation research, including the Arts-Based Educational Research Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), as well as First Runner-Up for the Elliot Eisner Doctoral Research Award and the Disability Studies in Art Education (DSAE) Doctoral Award from the National Art Education Association (NAEA). Beginning her career as an elementary school teacher in South Korea, Eunkyung has since taught undergraduate and graduate students in university and museum settings in the United States. In the field of art education, she currently serves as Co-Chair-Elect of the Seminar for Research in Art Education (SRAE) at NAEA. Her current research focuses on disabled children’s affective experiences in art education and inclusive art pedagogies that interrogate the assemblages of ableism, colonialism, and environmental injustice.