H E A T H E R L E WI S
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EDU C AT I ON
New York University, Ph.D. History of Education, 2006
Friends World College, B.A. Sociology, 1988
AC AD EMI C P OSIT IO N S
Professor of Art and Design Education and History, Pratt Institute, 2015-Present
Associate Professor of Art and Design Education and History, Pratt Institute, 2011–
2014
Assistant Professor of Art and Design Education and History, Pratt Institute, 2006–2011
ADM I NI ST R AT I V E E X P ERIE N CE
Acting Chair, Art and Design Education, 2015–Present
Responsible for recruitment and hiring of faculty, curriculum development, the scheduling and
assigning of faculty, admissions and the counseling of students, and the development and
management of the departmental budget. Coordinate the Assessment x Design initiative:
attendance at regional and national assessment conferences and Institutes, short-term and longterm planning, communications, professional development, and research.
Director, Assessment for Learning Initiative, 2016-Present
The initiative builds faculty expertise and scholarship in the assessment of student learning.
Executive Director, The Center for Collaborative Education, 1988–2002
Co-founded and lead a non-profit network of more than 40 New York City public schools
affiliated with the Coalition of Essential Schools. Collaborated with three partnering
organizations on the development and implementation of the New York Networks for School
Renewal, the five-year NYC Annenberg Challenge.
LE AD E RS HI P D EVE LO P MENT AN D RE SE AR C H
POD/AAC&U Organizational Development Institute, January, 2017
Participant: Assessing the Quality of Our Work
WASC Assessment Leadership Academy, 2015–2016
Project study: Assessment of/for Integrative Learning: A Multi-theory Approach.
AAC&U, Institute on Integrative Learning and the Departments, Summer, 2015
Team leader: 8-member, cross-departmental faculty/administrator team.
Alverno College, Assessment Workshop, 2014
Team leader: Organized a 3-member, cross-disciplinary team to apply insights gleaned from
Alverno’s teaching, learning and assessment model to the Assessment x Design project.
Pratt Faculty Innovation Grant, Assessment x Design, 2014–15
Research team leader: Recruited and supported faculty action research, sponsored Assessment x
Design Symposium, published case study, garnered support from an international advisory
board, worked with senior administrators to sustain initiative.
T EAC H I NG
NYC’s Youth: A Historical Perspective, 2015-Present; The Roots of Urban Education,
2010-2015; Art, Design and Community: An Interdisciplinary Seminar, 2009-10; Survey
of Art Education Literature, 2009-14; Thesis, 2006- 2014; 2016-Present; History of
American Urban Education: Issues and Contexts, 2006-2009; Public Art as Education,
2008.
I NST I T UT I ON AL AND P RO FE SS IO N AL SE R VI CE
P r o vo st Co u nc il , 2 0 1 7
Pratt Strategic Planning Committee, 2015–present
Search Committee Member, FT Faculty Position, Interior Design, 2016
Pratt Academic Affairs, Board of Trustees, 2015-Present
Pratt Board of Trustees, Faculty Representative, 2013–15
Search Committee Member, Vice President for Finance and Administration, 2015
Co-Chair, Steering Committee for Middle States Accreditation, 2013–14
Faculty coordinator and author, TEAC accreditation, 2012–Present
School of Art and Design Curriculum Committee, 2011–2014
Institute Wide Curriculum Committee (IWWC), 2011–14
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (UCC), 2012–13
ADE Curriculum Committee, 2013–present
Initiative for Arts, Community and Social Change (IACSC), 2008–11
Teaching Forum, History of Education Society, 2006–9
AC AD EMI C HO NO R S AN D F E LLOW S HIP S
Outstanding Dissertation Award, New York University, 2007
Miller Center National Fellowship in Public Affairs, University of Virginia, 2005-6
Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, American Education Research Association/Spencer, 20034
Gotham Fellowship, CUNY, Post War Seminar on NYC History, 2003-4
Revson Fellowship, Columbia University, 1996-7
P RO FE SS I O N AL O RG A NI ZAT IO NS
History of Education Society (HES)
The National Art Education Association (NAEA)
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISOTL)
Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC &U)
The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD)
LAN GU AG ES
Fluent in Spanish
P UB LI C AT I ON S
Teaching and Learning Publications
Heather Lewis, “Future Teachers and Historical Habits of Mind: A Pedagogical Case
Study.” History of Education Quarterly, Volume 56:2 (February, 2016).
Heather Lewis. “Assessment by Design: Scaling up by Thinking Small.” In Reframing
Quality Assurance in Creative Disciplines, edited by Joseph M. Hoey IV and Jill L.
Ferguson, 107-116. Champaign, Illinois: Common Ground Publishing, 2015.
Academic Publications
Heather Lewis, “New Histories of Education in New York City”, Roundtable
Response, The Gotham Center for New York City History, 8/8/2016
http://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/roundtable-response-heather-lewis.
Heather Lewis, “There is No Board of Education for Harlem”: The I.S. 201
Experimental School District and its Aftermath, 1966-1986” in Educating Harlem,
editors Ansley Erickson and Ernest Morrell, to be published by Columbia University
Press, 2018
Heather Lewis, New York City Public Schools From Brownsville to Bloomberg: The
Community Control Movement and its Legacy, New York: Teachers College Press,
2013.
Heather Lewis. Book Review, Paedagogica Historia, Spring 2007. Adam R. Nelson,
The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s
Public Schools, 1950-1985.
Heather Lewis. H-Net Book Review, March 21, 2005. Jack Dougherty, More Than
One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee and Daniel H.
Perlstein, Justice, Justice: School Politics and the Eclipse of Liberalism. Accessible
via the H-1960s discussion logs and H-net at http://www.h-net.org/~h-1960s/.
P RE SENT AT I ON S AN D RE VIEW S
"A TLC Start-up: Inclusive, Concentric Circles of Grassroots Faculty Leaders". Paper
to be presented at the Professional and Organizational Development Conference,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 25-29, 2017.
“Assessment for Learning: Grassroots Faculty Leadership of Change.” Paper to be
presented at the Society for Teaching and Learning Annual Conference, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Canada, June 20-23, 2017.
In Pratt’s Backyard: Historical Context for Community Engagement”. Paper
Presentation, Brushes with History Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University,
New York, NY (November 19, 2015).
“Disproportionate Access: Art and Design Instruction (K-12) in Central Brooklyn”.
Paper Presentation, National Art Education Association, New Orleans, LA (March 26–
28, 2015).
“Geography Matters: Urban School Districts and their Communities”. Paper
Presentation, History of Education Society, Indianapolis, IN (November 8, 2014).
“Assessment x Design”. Paper Presentation, Association of Independent Colleges of Art
and Design, Columbus, OH (November 7, 2014).
“‘There is No Board of Education for Harlem’: The I.S. 201 Experimental District and
its Aftermath”. Paper Presentation, Educating Harlem: Histories of Learning and
Schooling in an American Community, Columbia University, New York, NY (October
2, 2014).
“Educating Central Harlem in the 1970s and 80s”. Paper Presentation, American
Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA (April 3–7. 2014).
“Bytes of the Past: Archivists and Art Educators’ Collaboration for Stewardship and
Teaching”. Accepted Research Lecture, National Arts Education Association, San
Diego, CA (March 29–31, 2014).
“The Aftermath of the Community Control Movement in Central and East Harlem”.
Accepted Paper Presentation, Educating Harlem Conference at Teachers College, New
York, NY (October 10–11, 2013).
“Geography Matters: Urban School Districts and their Communities”. Paper
Presentation, History of Education Society, Nashville, TN (October 31–November 3,
2013).
“Teaching School Reform, Past and Present”. Paper Presentation, History of Education
Society, Nashville, TN (October 31–November 3, 2013).
“‘The Crisis of Confidence in the Public Schools’: Liberal Contestations over the Power
to Define the Future of Urban Schooling in the 1970s”. Accepted Paper Presentation,
History of Education Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. (November 3–6, 2012).
“Using Local and Regional History in History and Foundations Classrooms”. Accepted
Panel Presentation, History of Education Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA (Nov. 3–
6, 2012).
“No Dust, No Cobwebs Here: Forum for Emerging/ Re-emerging Scholarly Interest in
Art Education History”. Research Lecture, National Art Education Association National
Convention, New York, NY (March 1–4, 2012).
“Connecting Civic Learning and Studio Thinking”. Best Practices Lecture, National Art
Education Association National Convention, New York, NY (March 1–4, 2012).
“Self-determining Citizens: Community Control of New York City's Schools in the
1960s”. Association of American Geographers, New York, NY (February, 2012).
“EDI Roundtable Discussion—National Park Service Competition”. Invited Juror, Pratt
Exhibition Design Intensive, New York, NY (October 28, 2011).
“Visual Politics: A Critical Studio”, Invited Critic, Parsons The New School for Design,
New York, NY (May, 2011).
“Art, Culture and Community Development Collaboratory” Research Fellow, Imagining
America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. Documents the complex relationships
embedded in community cultural development projects that involve university and
community partnerships (2011-2012).
“Mapping Physical and Virtual Art Education Archives: Primary Sources in Teaching
and Research”. Best Practices Lecture, National Art Education Association National
Convention, Seattle, WA (March, 2011).
“Art and Design Inquiry as Part of the Creative Process”. Best Practices Lecture,
National Art Education Association National Convention, Seattle, WA (March, 2011).
“In Pratt’s Backyard: Community Art and Design in Bedford Stuyvesant”. Poster
Session, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, Seattle, WA
(September, 2010).
“Building Academic Programs at the Intersection of Critical Pedagogy and Community
Engagement”. Seminar Participant, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public
Life, Seattle, WA (September, 2010).
“Teaching Art Education History, Historical Inquiry and Student Engagement—When?
Why? How?” Panel Presentation, National Art Education Association, Baltimore, MD
(April, 2010).
“In Pratt’s Backyard: The Cycle of Abandonment and Redevelopment in Gentrifying
Communities”. Paper Presentation, National Art Education Association, Baltimore, MD
(April, 2010).
“Interdisciplinary Learning and the Cycle of Abandonment and Redevelopment in
Bedford Stuyvesant”. Paper presented at Dreamland Pavilion: Brooklyn and
Development, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY (October, 2009).
“Teaching the History of Education”. Conference Organizer, History of Education
Society, Philadelphia, PA (October, 2009).
“Community Standards for Professional Leadership of “Ghetto” Schools in the 1960s”.
Paper Presentation, History of Education Society, Philadelphia, PA (October, 2009).
“The Social Imagination”, panel presentation on the work of Maxine Greene at the
Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, New York, NY
(October, 2009).
“The Principal’s Responsibility for Closing Opportunity Gaps”. Paper Presentation,
History of Education Society, Tampa, FL (November, 2008).
“Revisiting the Past to Assess the Present: A Historical Perspective on Mayoral Control
of Education in New York City”. Paper Presentation, American Educational Research
Association, New York, NY (April, 2008).
“Elite Policies, Local Responses: Instructional Reform in New York City’s Black and
Latino Communities, 1970- 2002”. Paper Presentation, American Educational Research
Association, New York, NY (April, 2008).
“Public Oversight of Big City School Systems: New York City’s Challenge”, Paper
Presentation, Politics, Activism and the History of America’s Public Schools, University
of PA (April, 2008).
“More Than Elite Policy: New York City’s School-based Fights over Affirmative Action
and Bilingual Education”. Paper Presentation, Organization of American Historians,
New York, NY (March, 2008).
“Enacting History, Making History: Performances of Everyday and Extraordinary Life in
Four Public Secondary Schools” Paper Presentation, Oral History and Performance
Conference, Columbia University, New York, NY (March, 2008).
“Community Arts, Building Communities”. Moderator, Conversations Across Cultures:
Community Arts Conference Teachers College, Columbia University, New York,
NY(November, 2007).
“Rethinking the Urban Crisis in Education”. Panel Presentation, 4th International
Conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice, Chicago, IL (January, 2007).
“New York City’s Policy Paradox: Bilingual Education and Decentralization in the
1970s”. Paper Presentation, History of Education Society, Ottawa, ON (October, 2006).
“Teaching the History of Education: Pedagogical and Policy Considerations”. Panel
Chair, History of Education Society, Ottawa, ON (October, 2006).
“The Community Action Program and Local Schools: Unintended Consequences”. Paper
Presentation, Policy History Conference, Charlottesville, VA (June, 2006).
“More than Half a Loaf: Community Control and Everyday Governance, 1966-70”.
Miller Center of Public Affairs, Charlottesville, VA (June, 2006).
“District Reform in an Era of Neglect: Black and Puerto Rican Sub-Districts in New
York City, 1970-84”. Paper Presentation, American Educational Research Association,
San Francisco, CA (April, 2006).
“When Two Movements Collide: Collective Memory of the Clash Between Community
and Labor in New York City’s Public Schools, 1964-74”. Paper Presentation,
Organization of American Historians, Washington, DC (April, 2006).
“‘Identify With the People We Serve:’ African American Teachers and Leaders in a New
York City Special Service School”. Paper Presentation, Oral History Association,
Providence, RI (November, 2005).
“Beyond the Backlash: Reinventing Districts in the 1970s”. Paper Presentation, History
of Education Society, Baltimore, MD (October, 2005).
“Creating Civic Cultures: Case Studies from the Early Twentieth Century”. Panel Chair,
American Education Research Association, Montreal, Quebec (April, 2005).
“The Community’s Side of the Story Has Still Not Been Told”. Collective Memory of
the Community Control Movement in New York City’s Schools, 1964-73”. Paper
Presentation, Emerging Scholarship in Urban Education Conference, CUNY Graduate
Center, New York, NY (December, 2004).
“Who’s an Insider/Who’s an Outsider? The Ford Foundation as Intermediary in New
York City Education Governance Reform, 1966-72”. Paper Presentation, History of
Education Society, Kansas City, MO (November, 2004).
“Mayors and Movements: A Historical Analysis of Community Control,
Decentralization, and Re-Centralization in New York City’s School System, 19542000”. Paper Presentation, Urban History Conference, Milwaukee, WI (October, 2004).
“From Protest to Policy: Mayoral Control and Social Movements in New York City
Schools, 1954-70”. Policy History Conference, St. Louis, MO (May, 2004).
“Urban Social Movements in Global Context”. Paper Presentation, XIIIth International
Oral History Association Conference; Rome, Italy (June, 2004).
“The 60’s Legacy in Local Context: School District Leadership and Reform”. Paper
Presentation, American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA (April,
2004).
“New York City Public School Reform from the 60s to the 80s”. Paper Presentation,
Gotham Center Seminar on Postwar New York City History, CUNY Graduate Center.
New York, NY (May, 2004).
“Four Generations of Education Historians: A Graduate Student’s Perspective”. Paper
Presentation, History of Education Society, Evanston, IL (October, 2003).
“Teachers in the Eye of the Storm: Community Control in NYC Schools”. Paper
Presentation, Oral History Association Meeting, Bethesda, MD (October, 2003).
“Separate But Equal: Teacher Quality Matters”. Paper Presentation, History of Education
Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA (November, 2002).
“Separatism or Civic Renewal? Progressive Educators and Community Control”. Paper
Presentation, History of Education Society, New Haven, CT (October, 2001).