With its most recent issue, the Journal of Aesthetic Education is welcoming a new editor: Tracie Costantino! Vol. 58, Iss. 3 is the first issue that Dr. Costantino has edited and is out now on Project MUSE.

“I am most looking forward to engaging with prospective authors from around the world, learning about their work, and welcoming diverse perspectives,” says Dr. Costantino. “As a graduate of the aesthetic education doctoral program at the University of Illinois, I am honored to serve as the steward of this journal that has been so influential to me and to the field.” 

Tracie Costantino is the Provost & Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the California Institute of the Arts. She earned her M.A. in art history from Brown University and a Ph.D. in aesthetic education (curriculum and instruction) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Along with many published articles and book chapters, Dr. Costantino has co-edited two books, Essays on Aesthetic Education for the 21st Century (2010) and Aesthetics, Empathy, and Education (2013). Her scholarship centers on the arts and cognition, qualitative thinking, visual research, and interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary curriculum.  Her article “Teacher as Mediator: A Teacher’s Influence on Students’ Experiences Visiting an Art Museum” was published in Vol. 42, Iss. 4, of Journal of Aesthetic Education. 

“I am committed to maintaining the high quality of scholarship published in JAE and ensuring it continues to publish work that asks compelling questions about the arts and humanities, aesthetics, and education in our global society. In addition to substantive philosophical investigations and well-designed research studies in this arena, I am eager to support insightful interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and cross-cultural scholarship as well,” she says.  

Outgoing editor Pradeep Dhillon has worked on the Journal for 86 issues, since 2001. Dr. Dhillon is an Emerita Associate Professor of Education, Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University.

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Journal of Aesthetic Education is a highly respected interdisciplinary journal that focuses on clarifying the issues of aesthetic education understood in its most extensive meaning. The Journal thus welcomes articles on philosophical aesthetics and education devoted to problem areas in education critical to arts and humanities at all institutional levels, to an understanding of the aesthetic import of the new communications media and environmental aesthetics, and to an understanding of the aesthetic character of humanistic disciplines. The Journal is a valuable resource not only to educators, but also to philosophers, art critics and art historians. 

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