Dr. Cheryl Krause Knight (PhD, 2000) is Professor of Art History at Emerson College in Boston. Knight has authored Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism (2008, Blackwell Publishing); two exhibition catalogues, An Independent Spirit: The Art and Life of R.A.D. Miller (2009), and Louis Bosa: A Keen Eye and a Kind Heart (2005; both James A. Michener Museum of Art), Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World (2014, University Press of Florida) and is co-editing The Blackwell Companion to Public Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016). She has published articles in Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, the Journal of American and Comparative Cultures, Visual Resources, and American Art Review. She has contributed essays to the anthologies: The Artist as Curator (2013, Intellect); Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism (2007, Cambridge Scholars Publishing); and Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art: Contemporary Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1999, SUNY Press). She is currently co-editing the anthology Museums and Public Art? (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Dr. Knight is the co-founder of Public Art Dialogue, an international professional organization devoted to providing an interdisciplinary critical forum for the field. She also co-founded and co-edits the journal, Public Art Dialogue, published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. Dr. Knight has been twice awarded the Gemmill Research Fellowship at the Michener Museum in Doylestown, PA and was Emerson College's 2006-2007 recipient of the Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award.