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Constance DeVereaux

University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Claremont Grduate University, Claremont Graduate University

Research areas: Social Sciences · Cultural Studies · Arts, Culture, and Music Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Museums and Cultural Heritage

ORCID iD 0000-0001-5121-7726
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Constance DeVereaux, Ph.D. has both an applied and philosophical approach to arts and cultural management studies and in the research of public policy in arts and culture. In addition to managing arts organizations, she has worked as an arts management consultant, arts advocate, and researcher. She is an international expert in arts and cultural policy and served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in both policy and management at universities in Finland, South Africa, and Romania. She lectures internationally on arts management and policy topics and is a frequent presenter at international conferences. She co-organized the international symposium series: Cultural Management and the State of the Field (2007-2010) and was co-editor of the symposium publications: The Cultural Manager as Global Citizen, The Science and Art of Cultural Management, and Cultural Management and its Boundaries: Past, Present, and Future. She is co-editor of The Arts Management Handbook: New Directions for Students and Practitioners and serves on the international advisory board of the Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy. From 2008-2010 she served as an Executive Editor of the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society. She is the co-organizer of the Arts Management Research Stream of the European Sociological Association. Her research interests include cultural citizenship and the arts, culturally sustainable entrepreneurship, arts management practices, and everyday aesthetics. In addition to her academic pursuits, C.D. is an award-winning feature reporter for public radio. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy and political science at Claremont Graduate University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles. Current publications include Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World (Ashgate Press), co-authored with Dr. Martin Griffin, "Is Art a Fruit or a Vegetable? On Developing a Practice-Based Definition of Art (Philosophia), and "Chagrin and the Politics of American Aesthetics" (to be published by University of Tennessee Press).

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