​Olga Ivashkevich, PhD

After receiving my PhD in Art Education from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2008, I joined art education faculty in the School of Visual Art & Design at the University of South Carolina. I am also a Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) affiliate and serve as a Director of the WGST's community-based Women's Well-Being Initiative. I have been conducting art and media making workshops for adjudicated girls in greater Columbia, SC since 2009. My research interests include girlhood studies, intersectionality, youth criminalization, feminist and anti-carceral pedagogies, and youth digital media making as civic engagement.