2022
Rapport, Lindsay Blue Annie
Get on This Vibe: Freestyling and Being in/as Radical Togetherness
Lerner, Rosalia
“Get Well Soon!” Sick Bodied Performance of Chronic Conditions
Forbez, Xiomara Mireya
Technical Pursuit: Technique and Training of Nonprofessional Dancers in Ballet, Hula, and Bachata
2021
Gonzalez, Irvin Manuel
Dancing Quebradita: Transnational Belonging and Mexicanidades Across the U.S. – Mexico Border
Bowker, Kelly
Race-ing Technology in Dance
Macias, Evangelina Anne Suncere
Dancing Defiance: From Native American Women’s Fancy Shawl Dance to Indigenous Burlesque and Pole Dance
2020
Stahl-Kovell, Katie N.
Choreographing Childbirth: Tactics and Techniques of Motherhood
Maiko Le Lay
Cypher to Classroom: an Ethnography & Choreographic Reading on Teaching and Learning, and Embodied Hip Hop Pedagogy Otherwise
Ania Nikulina
Ballet in Ukraine: A Site of Tension between Russian Imperialism and Nationalism
Rainy Demerson
(Re)mapping Space, Time, and Energy: Re-membering Black Women in South African Contemporary Dance
2019
Theresa Goldbach
Losing the Center: Madrid, Flamenco, and Contested Urban Spaces
2018
Radman Shafie
Social Tango Dancing in the Age of Neoliberal Competition, 2019 Christine Sahin, Core Connections: A Contemporary Cairo Raqs Sharqi Ethnography
Casey Avaunt
Claiming Ritual: Female Lion Dancing in Boston’s Chinatown
Denise M. Machin
Find your Place, Please: Gender in 21st Century U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dance Practices
Wei-Chi Wu
Dancing Within Taiwanese-ness: International Folk Dancing Communities in Taiwan and California
2015
Rachel Carrico
Footwork! Improvised Dance as Dissenting Mobility in the New Orleans Second Line
Jessica Dellecave
Reading the Againness of Vietnam in Contemporary United States Antiwar Choreography
Sang Woo Ha
Embodiments of Korean Mask Dance (T’alch’um) from the 1960s to the 1980s: Traversing National Identity, Subjectivity, and Gender Binary
Natalie Zervou
The Greek Body of Crisis: Contemporary Dance as a Site of Negotiating and Restructuring National Identity in the Era of Precarity
2014
Jessica Behm
Bodies of War: The Embodiment of Force in Theaters of War
Melissa Hudson Bell
Audience Engagement in San Francisco’s Contemporary Dance Scene: Forging Connections through Food
Jessica Herring
Hope Races toward Repetition: ‘Fondly do we hope…fervently do we pray’, MA Thesis
Asheley Smith
Reproducible Dances: Reconstructing the ‘Ephemeral’ with Funding from the National Endowment for the Arts’ ‘American Masterpieces: Dance’ Program
Lindsey Michelle Timmons Summers
Dancing Christian from Ruth St. Denis to Pole Dancing for Jesus
Minerva Tapia
Danzas Fronterizas: Contemporary Dance at the U.S.-Mexican Borderland
2013
Sarah Holmes
A Critical Dance Studies Examination of the Teaching Methodologies, Exercises, and Principles of Pilates
Hye-Won Hwang
Transnational Circulations of “Laban” Methods: Gender, Power Relations, and Negotiated Meanings in Early Twenty-First Century South Korea’s Modernity
Gabriela Mendoza-Garcia
Bodily Renderings of the Jarabe Tapatio in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and the Millennial United
Hannah Schwadron
White Nose, (Post) Bawdy Bodies, and the Un/dancing Sexy Jewess
Ana Maria Tamayo-Duque
En Colombia Se Baila Asi: Intersectional Bodies, Race, Gender and Nation Building in the Barranquilla Carnival
Elizabeth Kurien
Kutiyattam: Intangible Heritage and Transnationalism
Laura Vriend
Choreographing Urbanisms: Site, Spatiality and Experimental Dance in Philadelphia
2012
Premalatha Thiagarajan
Performing Indian Dance in Malaysia
Melissa Templeton
Polyrhythmic Dance Currents: Race Multiculturalism and the Montreal Dance Community
2011
Szu-Ching Chang
Dancing with Nostalgia in Taiwanese Contemporary ‘Traditional’ Dance
Duanzi Cheng
Musings on the Ruptures: Examining the Circulations of Chinese Modern Dance in the U.S., MA Thesis
Anusha Kedhar
On the Move: Transnational South Asian Dancers and the ‘Flexible’ Dancing Body
Laura Osweiler
Dancing in the Fringe: Connections Forming “An Evening of Experimental Middle Eastern Dance
Freya Vass-Rhee
Audio-Visual Stress: Cognitive Approaches to the Perceptual Performativity of William Forsythe and Ensemble
2010
Mark Broomfield
Black Male Dancers and the Performance of Masculinity On- and Offstage
Tania Hammidi
Dance, Dress, Desire: Drag Kings, Prison Wear, and the Dressed, Dancing Body
Alexis Weisbrod
Competition Dance: Redefining Dance in the United States
Maral Yessayan
Performing Jordan In an Era Of Transformative Globalization: The Emergence of an? Alternative Labor Market
Ying Zhu
Remembering through the Corpus: The Intersection of (Moving) Bodies with Architecture at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
2009
Shakina Nayfack
Butoh Ritual Mexicano: An Ethnography of Dance, Transformation, and Community Redevelopment
Ahalya Satkunaratnam
Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharata Natyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka
2008
Alison Bory
Dancing with My Self: Performing Autobiography in (Post) Modern Dance
Celia Bambara
Transfiguring Diaspora: Travel and the Politics of Haitian Dance
Ting-Ting Chang
Choreographing the Peacock: Gender, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Chinese Ethnic Dance
2007
Adrienne Stroik
The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893: The Production of Fair Performers and Fairgoers
Amita Nijhawan
We Are Cool Now…in Hamara India: Bikinis, Bike Races and Dancing Bodies in the Age of Globalization
Roxane Fenton
Circuits of Representation: Figure Skating and Cultural Meaning in U.S. Popular Culture
Won Sun Choi
Re-Presentations of Han, a Special Emotional Quality, in Korean Dancing Culture
Youngjae Roh
Choreographing Local and Global Discourses: Ballet, Women, and National Identity
2006
Jennifer Dawson
Danseuses as Working Women: Ballet and Female Waged Labor at the Paris Opera, 1830-1860
Melissa Blanco Borelli
A Case of Hip(g)nosis: An Epistemology of the Mulata Body and her Revolutionary Hips
Diyah Larasati
Dancing on the Mass Grave: Cultural Reconstruction of Post Indonesian Massacres
2005
Kuang-Yu Cheng
Exporting Taiwanese Dances: The Touring of Taiwanese Ideologies through the Chinese Goodwill Mission
Jill Nunes Jensen
Re-Forming the Lines: A Critical Analysis of Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet
2004
Maria Talamantes
The Cultural Politics of Performance: Women, Dance Ritual, and the Transnational Tourism Industry in Bali
Tharon Paul Weighill
The 2-Step Tales of Hahashka: Experiences in Corporeality and Embodiment in Aboriginal California
Isabel Valverde
Interfacing Dance and Technology: A Theoretical Framework for Performance in the Digital Domain
Carla Huntington
Moving Beyond the Baumol and Bowen Cost Disease in Professional Ballet: A 21st Century Pas de Deux (Dance) of New Economic Assumptions and Dance History Perspectives
Danielle Robinson
Race in Motion: Reconstructing the Practice, Profession, and Politics of Social Dancing, New York City 1900-1930
Hyunjung Kim
Choreographies of Gender and Nationalism in Contemporary South Korean Dance
Yatin Lin
Choreographing a Flexible Taiwan: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Taiwan’s Changing Identity, 1973-2003
2003
Kirsche Dickson
Liberty Dances: Women’s Movements and the Revival of Faith in American Capitalist- Democracy
Jeffrey Friedman
Embodied Narrative: A Laban Movement Analysis of Dance Oral History Towards Ontological Awareness
Juliet McMains
Glamour Lessons: Race, Class, and Gender in the American Dancesport Industry
Russ Patrick Alcedo
Traveling Performance: An Ethnography of a Philippine Religious Festival
2002
Maura Keefe
Talking Dancing: The Choreography of Space and Character in Contemporary U.S. Dance
2001
Jens Giersdorf
Choreographing Socialism: Bodies and Performance in East Germany Before, During, and After the Fall of the Wall
Colleen Dunagan
Virtual Power and Kinetic Bodies: Re-Thinking Twentieth Century Dance Aesthetics
Karen Schaffman
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Contact Improvisation and the Commodification of Touch
Janet O’Shea
At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam’s Transnational Traditions, 2001 Yutian Wong, Choreographing Asian America: Club O’ Noodles and Other Mis-Acts
John Jordan
Light in the Heels: The Emergence of the Effeminate Male Dancer in Eighteenth-Century English History
2000
Riselia Bezerra
‘Sambations’: Samba and the Politics of Syncopation
Francesca Castaidi
Choreographing African Identities: Negritude and the National Ballet of Senegal
1998
Anne Dunkin-Willis
Marking Time and Space Together: An Interpretation of Young People’s Dancing as Cultural Play
Michelle Heffner
Bailando la Historia/Flamenco Bodies in History and Film
David Gere
How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS
Jennifer Fisher
The Annual Nutcracker: A Participant-Oriented, Contextualized Study of The Nutcracker Ballet as it has Evolved into a Christmas Ritual in the United States and Canada
1997
Anthony Shay
Choreophobia: Iranian Solo Improvised Dance in the Southern California Diaspora