Dr. Ashley Colleen Minner

About

Ashley Minner is a community-based visual artist. She works as a Professor of the Practice in the Department of American Studies and directs the minor in Public Humanities.

Research interests

folklore, cultural studies, community studies, place and identity, thing theory, the everyday, stories

Teaching interests

folklore, cultural studies, museum scholarship and material culture, American Indian studies, community art, public humanities, ethnography

Education

  • Ph D, American StudiesUniversity of Maryland College Park (2020)
    Revisiting the Reservation: The Lumbee Community of East Baltimore
  • MFA, Community ArtsMaryland Institute College of Art (2011)
    The Exquisite Lumbee
  • MA, Community ArtsMaryland Institute College of Art (2007)
    Lumbee Legends
  • Other, General Fine ArtsMaryland Institute College of Art (2005)