Sam Mejias
Dean, School of Art Media and Technology
Email
sam@newschool.edu
Office Location
L - 2 West 13th Street
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Sam Mejias (he/him) is Dean of the School of Art, Media and Technology, and Associate Professor of Social Justice and Community Engagement in the School of Design Strategies. His research broadly focuses on young people, the arts and learning. Sam is currently Principal Investigator on the Wallace Foundation-funded international research project Tracing the Enduring Effects of Community Arts Programs.
Degrees Held
PhD, Human Rights Education, University College London
MA, International Educational Development, Columbia University Teachers College
BA, College of William and Mary
Recent Publications
Baldridge, B., Kirschner, B., DiGiacomo, D., Mejias, S., & Vasudevan, D. (2024). Out-of-School Time Programs in the United States in an Era of Racial Reckoning: Insights on Equity from Practitioners, Scholars, Policy Influencers, and Young People. Educational Researcher, 53(4), 201-212.
Halverson, E. R., Saplan, K., Mejias, S., & Martin, C. (2023). What We Learn About Learning From Out-of-School Time Arts Education. Review of Research in Education, 47(1), 360-404.
Bevan, B., Rosin, M., Mejias, S., Wong, J., & Choi, M. (2022). Food for thought: Immersive storyworlds as a way into scientific meaning-making. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 59(9), 1607-1650.
Mejias, S.,Thompson, N., Sedas, R. M., Rosin, M., Soep, E., Peppler, K., Roche, J., Wong, J., Hurley, M., Bell, P., & Bevan, B. (2021). The trouble with STEAM and why we use it anyway. Science Education, 105(2), 209-231.
Banaji, S. & Mejias, S. (2020). Youth Active Citizenship in Europe – Ethnographies of Participation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bevan, B., Mejias, S., Rosin, R. & Wong, J. (2020). The Main Course Was Mealworms: The epistemics of art and science in public engagement. Leonardo, 54(4), 456-461.