Victoria Restler is Associate Professor of Educational Studies and Founding Director of the Youth Development Master’s Program at Rhode Island College. An interdisciplinary artist, educator and scholar, she has worked in schools and community spaces for two decades at the intersections of art-making and social justice. Victoria’s first book, “What do you do that can’t be measured? On Radical Care in Teaching and Research” was published in 2023 with Brill’s Doing Arts Thinking Series. Her scholarship on care work, structural inequities in education, and arts-based research appears in various journals, including Gender and Education, Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, Outlines. Critical Practice Studies, and Art Education. Her current collaborative study explores institutional whiteness through art, image archives, narrative research, and teacher workshops. Victoria received her PhD in Urban Education from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2017. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island with her partner, two children, and dog, Slinky.
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