Merel Visse

www.merelvisse.com Since the early 2000s, I have initiated and coordinated various grant-funded, innovative, cross-disciplinary projects and programs, bringing together intellectual, entrepreneurial, and creative communities around key areas related to care, ethics, and the arts. I publish(ed) in peer-reviewed, impact-factor journals and am the author of various books and edited volumes. I work as the Visual Art Section Editor at International Journal of Education and the Arts, serve as an editorial board member on Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics and Education, on Visual Arts Research, and the advisory board of Cultures of Aging and Care. I was awarded the 2020 Merrill Skaggs Award for Excellence in Teaching by Drew University, where I chair a master’s and doctoral degree program. I greatly enjoy working with emerging scholars and colleagues in my role as dissertation chair of Ph.D. students in the U.S.A., the U.K. and Europe. I feel privileged to be part of the Care Ethics Research group at the University of Humanistic Studies in The Netherlands — a unique group of like-minded people. I received a Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Medicine at the VU University of Amsterdam, and am trained as and still practice as a visual artist. In 2016, I was an artist in residence at the NY School of Visual Arts, and in 2018 at the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn.