Dr. Azzarito’s research examines the links among young people’s construction of the body, identity and inequality issues from a pedagogical and sociocultural perspective.  Dr. Azzarito is currently conducting visual research projects with young people in urban school physical activity contexts.  Her related interests include the theorization and application of visual methods; the examination of the ways in which the intersection of gender/sex, race/ethnicity and social class discourses in school physical activity informs young people’s construction of the body; visual pedagogies; and curriculum theory.

Her current projects consider the critical and transformative aspects of using participatory visual research methods with young people in school contexts. She is particularly interested in studying visual methods as a means for exploring young people’s embodied identities, their making sense of the body in their daily lives.  The interdisciplinary nature of her research brings together art education, visual studies, curriculum, physical education and physical culture studies.  Her research is informed by constructivist, feminist post-structuralist and post-colonial theories.