Constance Bumgarner Gee

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1993

Short Biography

Professor Gee has written extensively on the impact and consequences of public policy and programming on K-12 arts education, and on the affects of arts advocacy on public perceptions about the nature and merits of arts education.

She teaches an introductory public policy course (HOD 2100) for the Human and Organizational Development Department and has taught the course Public Policy, the Arts, and Arts Education for the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations. Public Policy, the Arts, and Arts Education focuses on the origins and evolving character of public funding for the arts in the United States and explores popularly held beliefs about the public and private purposes and significance of art in a democratic society. She has served as an executive editor for the scholarly journal Arts Education Policy Review since 1997. She is also a board director of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and an advisory board member for Vanderbilt's Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy.

Immediately prior to joining the Vanderbilt faculty, Professor Gee taught at Brown University (1998-2000). In 1993 she founded the Arts Policy and Administration Program at The Ohio State University and served as its director through 1997.

Professor Gee earned her Ph.D. in art education from The Pennsylvania State University in 1993. She holds a M.F.A. in painting and sculpture from Pratt Institute and a B.F.A. in painting and design from East Carolina University.

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