Susan Barahal is a Senior Lecturer at Tufts University, USA where she teaches courses on art education. Her research interests include how art facilitates and informs learning and understanding across the disciplines and content areas. Susan’s recent research explores the empathic responses that art objects evoke in viewers. She is a practicing artist and a juried member of the New England Sculptors Association.
Elizabeth Pugliano is Senior Instructor of art history at the University of Colorado Denver. Her work balances art historical research on violence, combat, gender, audience, reception and cognition in medieval art with pedagogical inquiries into issues encountered in the art history classroom and innovation in teaching practice.