Faculty Research Profiles: Pradeep Dhillon

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• Research Biography
• Degrees
• Key Professional Appointments
• Activities & Honors
• Grants
• Selected Publications

Research Biography

Degrees

• Ph.D., Philosophy of Education, Stanford University, 1991
• M.Ed., Theoretical Linguistics, Stanford University, 1983
• M.A., Literature, Punjab University, 1974
• B.A., Philosophy/History, Punjab University, 1970

Key Professional Appointments

• Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies/Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003--
• Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-2003
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign, 1994-1996
• Instructor/Visiting Scholar, Program in Cultures,Idea, and Values/Comparative Literature, Stanford University, 1991-1994

Activities & Honors

• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, Center for Teaching Excellence, 2011- present
• Editor, University of Illinois Press, 2011
• Chair, Graduate Awards Committee, Graduate Awards Committee, 2010-2011
• Editor for the Journal of Aesthetic Education, University of Illinois Press, 2010
• Awardee, Travel Grant to present at the East African Bienalle, University of Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, November, 2009, Scholars Travel Fund, 2009
• Awardee, Travel Grant to the Department of Philosophy, Theatre, and The Arts, University of Ghent, Belgium, 2008., Scholars Travel Fund, 2008
• Awardee, Travel to the University of Paris, Paris, 2007., Scholars Travel Fund, 2007
• Chair, Committee for Aesthetic Education, Committee for Aesthetic Education, at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Providence, Rhode Island, October 2005., American Society for Aesthetics, 2005
• Editor, Journal invited to join JSTOR, University of Illinois Press, 2005
• Reviewed funding proposal, Campus Research Board, 2003
• Editor, Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2001
• Guest Curator, with Eunice D. MacGuire (Curator, Johns Hopkins University), Art, Technology, and the World: "Traveling Design Kashmiri Shawls", Krannert Art Museum, 1999

Grants

• Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Arts, Mind and Cognition", University of Maryland
• Principal Investigator, For travel to present at the British Society for Aesthetics meeting, at Oxford University, Scholars Travel Fund

Selected Publications

• "Postmodernism and Globalization," in the Encyclopedia of Global Studies, edited by Mark Jurgensmeyer and Helmut Anheier, (Sage Pubications,2012).
• "A Kantian Approach to Global Art History: The Case from Indian Modern Art," in Beauty, editted by Vittorio Hosle, (University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming).
• "Thinking Through Pictures: Amrita Sher-Gil and Critical Art Making," in Modern Art and Architecture edited by D. F. Ruggles (Zuban Press, forthcoming).
• "Minding Art: Moderate Formalism and Global Museums," in The Journal of Critical Museum Studies, (2012-13)
• "The Role of Education in Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right," in a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory, edited by Nicholas Burbules and Klas Roth, Volume 43, Issue 3, pages 249–259, April 2011.