Katy Ballard, Ph.D.
Email: katy.ballard@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 742-4335
I identify as a queer, feminist, educator, artist, and community activist. My Ph. is in Fine Arts, Critical Studies and Artistic Practice. I have a Graduate Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) from Texas Tech University, as well as a BA in History and an MA in Museum Science. The title of my dissertation was "Queens of the South Plains: Collected Oral Histories of Drag Queens Living in Lubbock, Texas". In my dissertation research I drew from feminist theory, queer theory, and oral history research as a means to access the lived experiences of marginalized, oppressed, and often invisible lives within academic research.
In my work I value bridging feminist thought and theory with feminist praxis. As a feminist educator and activist, I work to integrate alternative social justice and anti-bias curricula methods. In particular I seek to create an academic environment that encourages collaboration and peer dialogue. In my classes I bring my academic expertise of feminist pedagogy, feminist theories, queer theory, sex, gender, gender identities and expressions, oral histories of LGBTQIA+ individuals, intersectional feminism, feminist art, visual studies, and media to assist students in developing critical thinking skills while helping them to engage as global citizens.
Publications
Check, E. & Ballard, K. (2014). Negotiating emotional, intellectual, and physical violence directed toward LGBTQ teachers and students. The journal of art education.
Most Recent Conference Papers, Presentations and Panels
Engaging Feminist Pedagogy in the Online Learning Environment at an HSI (co-presented with Dr. Elizabeth Sharp and Erika Bowles PhD Student Curriculum and Instruction and Women's and Gender Studies Certificate Student), 2020 Advancing Teaching & Learning Conference. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. March 5, 2020.
Trans* Identities, Narrative Voices, and Visual Pedagogies (co-presenters Dr. Andres Peralta and Dr. Ed Check), National Art Education Association, Chicago, Il, March 17-19, 2016.
Designing LGBTQ Pedagogy (co-presenters Dr. Andres Peralta, Dr. Ed Check, Future Akins-Tillett), National Art Education Association, New Orleans, LA, March 26-28, 2015.
Transitions: LGBTQ Identities, Narratives, and Visual Pedagogies (co-presented with Dr. Ed Check and Dr. Andres Peralta), Contesting Multiple Margins: From Local to Global and Back Again 32nd Annual Conference. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. April 14-15, 2016.
Current Activist Work
I am an organizer for Taos PRIDE helping to bring awareness, understanding, and a safe place for LGBTQIA+ individuals living in Northern New Mexico. We work with the knowledge that "Pride is Protest" and it is steeped in a history that began at the Stonewall Inn in 1969.
Working with local LGBTQIA+ activists who has been engaged in activism in Taos since the 1980s to collect the oral histories of LGBTQIA+ activists living in Taos and the surrounding areas.
University Studies
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Address
Drane Hall, 2515 15th St. Lubbock, TX 79409 -
Phone
806.742.7100 -
Email
universitystudies@ttu.edu