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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Christopher M. Schulte

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Professor / Interim Associate Dean

Also affiliated: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2014); University of Northern Iowa (2015); Pennsylvania State University (2011–2019); University of Georgia (2013); RWTH Aachen University (2023)

Faculty Researcher

10 h-index 46 pubs 260 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Christopher M. Schulte's research investigates the intersection of childhood, art, and play, with a specific focus on children's drawing practices and their connections to historical and contemporary childhoods. He founded and directs the Center for the Study of Childhood Art at the University of Arkansas, an interdisciplinary center dedicated to the study and practice of visual arts in children's lives.

Schulte holds an endowed chair in Art Education within the School of Art and serves as Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. His scholarly contributions include co-editing "New Images of Thought in the Study of Childhood Drawing" (2022) and "Visual Art With Young Children: Practices, Pedagogies and Learning" (2021). His work has been published in journals focusing on art education and child development. His h-index is 10 with 259 total citations across 46 publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 10
  • Publications: 46
  • Citations: 260

Selected Publications

  • A Commentary on Child Art and Art Education: 50 Years Later (2026)
    Studies in Art Education DOI OpenAlex
  • A Commentary on Flattening, Doubt, and Difference in Children’s Art and Play (2024)
    Studies in Art Education DOI OpenAlex
  • Archival Attunements: Researching Children’s Drawings “About the War” (2023)
    Qualitative Inquiry 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Mapping Research With a Systematic Review: The Example of Social and Emotional Learning in Art Education (2022)
    Studies in Art Education 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • “These Are Lion Tracks”: A Place-Stories Approach to Childhood Drawing (2022)
    Children: global posthumanist perspectives and materialist theories 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • An Introduction: For New Images of Thought in the Study of Children’s Drawings (2022)
    Children: global posthumanist perspectives and materialist theories 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Childhood drawing: The making of a deficit aesthetic (2021)
    Global Studies of Childhood 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Interview with Christopher Schulte (2020)
    Children: global posthumanist perspectives and materialist theories 2 citations DOI OpenAlex

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