ROSSEN Department of Theatre and Performance as Public Practice Program University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station D3900 Austin, TX 78712 [email protected]

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND FIELDS Dance history and theory, modern and , physical performance, theatrical representations of identity, performance studies, American studies, gender studies, Jewish studies, cultural studies EDUCATION 2006 Ph.D., Northwestern University, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Drama, Evanston, IL (NU); Certificate in Gender Studies

1990 B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

APPOINTMENTS 2015–present Associate Professor, Dept. of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin (UT) • Core Faculty, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies (SCJS) • Affiliate Faculty, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) • Affiliate Faculty, American Studies Department 2016–17 Division Head, Performance Studies and Pedagogy, Department of Theatre and Dance, UT

2008–2015 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Theatre and Dance, UT • Core Faculty, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies (SCJS) • Affiliate Faculty, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) • Affiliate Faculty, American Studies Department 2008 Adjunct Lecturer, Theater and Performance Studies Program, University of Chicago 2005–08 Adjunct Lecturer, Gender Studies Program, Theater Department, and the School of Continuing Studies, Northwestern University 2004 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dance Department, George Mason University 1993–98 Adjunct Instructor, Dance, Theater, and Liberal Arts Departments, Columbia College Chicago

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2001–07 Founder, Artistic Director, TanzTeam DanceTheater, Chicago 1999 Performer, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, 1996–99 Co-Founder, Co-Director, Curator, Movable Beast Fringe Festival, Chicago 1996–97 Co-Founder, Choreographer, Performer, Loop Troop Dance Company, Chicago 1992–95 Performer, Cook County Theatre Department (co-founded by Richard Maxwell of the Players), Chicago 1990–95 Performer, Hedwig , Chicago 1990–2003 Guest Artist with Pedro Alejandro, Timothy Buckley, Anthony Gongora, Ishmael Houston- Jones, Sally Silvers, XSight! Performance Group, Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts, Audio Gruppe (Germany), Annat Shamgar & Guests (Israel), and Baldanza (Italy).

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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS 2015 Oscar Brockett Book Prize, Congress on Research in Dance ($1000, to be awarded at Pomona in November 2016) • Awarded for best book in dance published during the three previous years. Special Citation for Dancing Jewish, de la Torre Bueno Book Prize®, Society for Dance History Scholars ($500, awarded in Athens, Greece) 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Grant ($6000 for Dancing Jewish) • One of two faculty members nominated by UT to apply for this grant. • Out of 992 NEH applicants, 84 were awarded grants. Only two went to dance history. 2010–11 Research Grant, Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, New York ($10,000 for Dancing Jewish) • This foundation supports research in education and Jewish studies. They rarely support research outside of New York City.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HONORS AND AWARDS 2016–17 John D. Murchison Fellowship in Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts ($5000). 2015 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Texas system-wide honor ($25,000) • Most prestigious teaching award for the entire UT system 2012–13 Lucia, John, and Melissa Gilbert Teaching Excellence Award, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts, UT • The award honors one faculty member each year with an outstanding record of undergraduate and/or graduate teaching in Women's and Gender Studies. Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Theater & Dance, UT ($2500) 2010–11 New Faculty Development Fellow, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, UT ($2000)

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS (PI) 2015–16 Special Research Grant, Office of Vice President for Research, UT ($750 book research) Travel Grant, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, UT ($750 for conference travel) Travel Grant, Graduate School, UT ($1200 for conference travel) 2014–15 Special Research Grant, Office of Vice President for Research, UT ($750 to travel to New York City and present at the 92Y) Travel Grant, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, UT ($750 for 92Y engagement) Travel Grant, Graduate School, UT ($1200 to present at the Congress on Research in Dance and Society of Dance History Scholars) 2013–14 Travel Grant, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, UT ($750 to present at the Biennial Scholars Conference in American Jewish History) Travel Grant, Graduate School, UT ($1200 to present at the Association for Jewish Studies and the Biennial Scholars Conference in American Jewish History) 2012–13 Subvention Grant, Office of Vice President for Research, UT ($5000 for Dancing Jewish) Summer Research Assignment, Graduate School, UT (summer salary to revise book) Special Research Grant, Office of Vice President for Research, UT ($750) Faculty Travel Grant (to present at Association for Jewish Studies conference) 2011–12 Summer Research Assignment, Graduate School, UT ($7889 for Dancing Jewish) • Awarded to complete summer salary in partnership with NEH fellowship (not applied for). Creative Research Summer Stipend, College of Fine Arts, UT (declined)

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Faculty Travel Grant (awarded to present at the American Studies Association) 2010–11 Research Grant, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, UT ($5000 for Dancing Jewish) Ducloux Fine Arts Faculty Fellowship, College of Fine Arts, UT (one semester’s salary) Faculty Travel Grant (awarded to present at the Congress on Research in Dance) 2009–10 Creative Research Summer Stipend, College of Fine Arts, UT ($7000 for Dancing Jewish) Research Grant, Office of Vice President for Research, UT ($5105 for Dancing Jewish) 2008–09 Summer Research Assignment, Graduate School, UT (two-month’s salary) 2003–07 Numerous Course Development Grants, Northwestern University (NU) ($1500 for each) 2004 Summer Stipend Grant, Graduate School, NU ($3000) 2003 Teaching Assistantship (awarded based on campus-wide competition), Gender Studies Program, NU ($12,000 and full tuition) Summer Stipend Grant, Graduate School, NU ($3000) 2002 Dissertation Year Fellowship, Graduate School, NU ($12,000 and full tuition); Graduate Research Grant; Summer Stipend Grant, Graduate School ($3000)

ARTISTIC GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS (PI) 2005 Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council, for Make Me a Jewish Dance ($900) Grant, City of Chicago, for Make Me a Jewish Dance ($750) 2002 Grant, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, NU, for Dancing Jew Ish ($5000) Grant, philanthropist Helen Zell, for Dancing Jew Ish ($7500) 1993–97 Numerous Choreography Grants, City of Chicago, Dept of Cultural Affairs ($750 - $1500)

ARTISTIC HONORS AND AWARDS 2009 Nominee, Austin Critic Table Awards, Best Touring Show. Nominated for “Warriors and Queens,” Department of Theatre and Dance and CWGS, UT 1998 Special Citation, Chicago Dance Coalition, Ruth Page Awards, for co-founding Chicago’s first fringe dance festival (The Movable Beast) CONSULTANCY 2014 On the Boards, Seattle. OTB is a significant international venue for new performance. • Hired as a consultant to brainstorm ways in which OTB TV, an archive of new performance, can be more useful to academic institutions.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES American Jewish Historical Society American Studies Association American Society for Theatre Research Association for Jewish Studies Association for Theatre in Higher Education Dance Studies Association

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PUBLICATIONS Books In Progress Holocaust Dance: Representations of the Holocaust in . This book will examine dances about the Holocaust by Jewish and non-Jewish choreographers.

2014 Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance (Oxford University Press). This extensive history of Jewish contributions to American dance covers 75 years, features 51 images, and includes a web companion with 51 clips from dances analyzed in the book. 336 pages.

Refereed Articles 2012 “Jews on View: Spectacle, Degradation, and Jewish Corporeality in Contemporary Dance and Performance.” Theatre Journal 64, 1 (March 2012): 59–78.

2011 “Uneasy Duets: Contemporary American Dances about Israel and the Mideast Crisis,” TDR: The Drama Review 55, 3 (Fall 2011), 40–49.

“Hasidic Drag: Jewishness and Transvestitism in the Modern Dances of Pauline Koner and Hadassah,” Feminist Studies 37, 2 (summer 2011): 334–64. Chapters 2016 “Dancing Jews and Jewesses: Jewishness, Ethnicity, and Exoticism in American Dance,” chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers- Young, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press), 66–90.

2006 “The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Stock Characterization and Jewish Masculinity in Postmodern Dance,” chapter in You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture, Vincent Brook, ed. (Rutgers: Rutgers University Press), 137–54.

Commissioned Articles 2007 “Moving Through the Interspace: Emio Greco/PC’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Opera Quarterly, 22.1: 144-47. “Teaching History: Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn,” Dance Teacher Magazine (October 2007): 120–24. “Teaching History: Mary Wigman, Early Pioneer, Dance Teacher Magazine (April 2007): 74–79.

Encyclopedia Entries 2014 “Sophie Maslow,” entry for Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. In production. This encyclopedia will be a critical, on-line, interdisciplinary resource on modernism.

Book Reviews 2016 “Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange by Clare Croft,” Journal 47:3 (December 2015): 111–15. 2007 “André Lepecki, Of the Presence of the Body & Exhausting Dance, Dance Research Journal 39:2 (Dec 2007): 103–06. 2006 “Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review’s ‘Jewish Dance’ Issue,” Dance Research Journal (summer 2006): 114–18.

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Blog Pieces 2014 “Hasidic Drag in American Modern Dance.” Oxford University Press, blog. OUP’s blog is the most widely read academic blog globally. Letters to Editor 2011 “A Need to Understand Dance,” Daily Texan, 17 November (author of statement co-signed by Theatre and Dance faculty).

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS Refereed Conference Papers 2018 “Transmitting the Holocaust: Transcultural History & Racial Trauma in Contemporary Dances by African American Artists,” American Jewish Historical Society (acceptance pending)

2016 “Sharing the Holocaust: African American Choreographers, Transcultural Histories, and Aesthetic Empathy,” SDHS and CORD, Pomona

“Excavating History: Memory, Community, and Place in Site-Specific Holocaust Performance,” Biennial Scholar's Conference in American Jewish History, New York City

2015 “The Work of Dance: Stephen Mills’s Light/the Holocaust & Humanity Project and Allison Orr’s Trash Project, SDHS and CORD, Athens, Greece

2014 “Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Jewishness and (Ethnic) Humor in the Dance and Theater Works of David Gordon,” American Society for Theatre Research, Baltimore. (Accepted; declined due consulting work with On the Boards, Seattle) “Modern Jewesses: The Biblical Heroine and Feminism in American Dance,” Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Baltimore. (Accepted; declined) “Jewish Dance,” paper for Keywords panel curated by Dr. Susan Manning, featuring leading voices in the field. SDHS and CORD, University of Iowa. "The Dancing Jew(ess): Ethnic Ambiguity and Jewish Drag in American Modern Dance,” Biennial Scholar's Conference in American Jewish History, Emory University. 2013 “Dancing Zionism: The Role of Modern Dance in American Zionism,” AJS, Boston. 2012 “Spectacle, Degradation, and Jewishness in Contemporary Performance,” Performance Studies International, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (Accepted; declined due to family emergency). “Modern and Postmodern Jewesses: The Biblical Heroine and Feminism in American Dance,” CORD, Albuquerque, NM. “The Time Is Now: American Zionism and Sophie Maslow’s Utopian Choreography for Israel Bonds,” SDHS, Philadelphia, PA. 2011 “Uneasy Duets: American Dances about Israel and the Mideast Crisis,” American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD. “The New Jewish Dance in America: Jewish Dance, Ethnic Dance, Modern Dance,” SDHS, Conference, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2010 “The Dancing Jew(ess): Jewish Drag in American Dance and Yiddish Film,” CORD, American Society for Theatre Research, Theatre Library Association, Joint Conference, Seattle, WA. “Jews on View: The Spectacle of the Jewish Body in Postmodern Dance,” SDHS, Conference, University of Surrey, London, UK.

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“Dance and Spectacle,” Panelist for Plenary Roundtable, SDHS, Conference, University of Surrey, London, UK. 2009 “Dancing Zionism, Embodying Conflict: American Zionism and Postmodern Dance,” SDHS, Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. 2007 “Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Jewishness in the Works of David Gordon,” CORD Conference, Barnard University, New York, NY. “The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Stock Characterization and Jewish Masculinity,” Conney Conference in Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 2005 “The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Stock Characterization and Jewish Masculinity,” Chicago Seminar on Dance and Performance, Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago. 2004 “The Exotic Jewess and the Dancing Hassid: Ethnic Ambiguity and Jewish Drag,” Association for Jewish Studies, Conference, Chicago (2004). “The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Stock Characterization and Jewish Masculinity,” SDHS, Conference, American Dance Festival, Duke University, Durham, NC. 2003 “Memory, Diaspora and Jewishness in Margaret Jenkins’s Breathe Normally,” Chicago Seminar on Dance and Performance, Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago (2003). 2001 “Jewish Choreographers and Jewish Drag,” SDHS, Conference, Towson College, MD. “Modern Dancing Jewesses: Jewishness and Jewish Drag in Modern Dance,” Midwest Jewish Studies Association, Conference, Spertus College of Judaica, Chicago. “Memory, Diaspora and Jewishness in Margaret Jenkins’s Breathe Normally,” CORD, Conference, New York University, New York City. Invited Professional Lectures and Keynotes 2018 Invited Featured Speaker, “Jews and Jewishness in the Dance World: A Lasting Impact?," conference, organized by Naomi Jackson and Liz Lerman, Arizona State University.

2017 Invited Featured Speaker, “Transmitting History: Memory, Community, and Place in Site- Specific Holocaust Dance,” Dance Studies Association and The Ohio State University’s Melton Center for Jewish Studies, The Ohio State University.

2015 “Make Me a Jewish Dance: Researching Identity through Embodied Scholarship,” Temple University, monthly Dance Studies Colloquium curated by Mark Franko (October).

“The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Jewishness, Humor, and Masculinity in Contemporary Dance,’” a presentation with choreographer David Dorfman at the 92Y Harkness Dance Center, Fridays at Noon Series, New York (May). • The 92Y is one of the preeminent literary and dance venues in New York City. “Biblical Heroines and Anti-Heroines: Feminism and Judaism in American Dance,” Women’s Cantor Network Conference, Temple Beth Shalom, Austin (June). “Uneasy Duets: Contemporary Dances about the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict,” Annual Cynthia Novack Lecture Speaker; additional appearances in several classes, Wesleyan University, CT (April). “Jewish Divas and Anti-Divas in American Modern Dance,” The Arts Club, Chicago (February). • The Arts Club is notable for hosting major figures in the arts including Robert Altman, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim, Kenneth Branagh, , Le Corbusier, , Martha Graham, David Mamet, and Gertrude Stein.

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“Make Me a Jewish Dance: Researching Identity through Embodied Scholarship,” Dance Studies Research Group, Northwestern University (February) “Jewish Identity in Contemporary Dance and Public Discussion with Choreographer Danielle Agami,” Dance Month Series, Jewish Community Center, Houston (February). 2013 “Holocaust and Dance,” public lecture on the history of holocaust representation in dance, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Los Angeles, CA. “Dancing History: Holocaust Dances,” lecture, Dance Department, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA. “Uneasy Duets: Contemporary Dances about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” lecture, Dance Department, Texas Women’s University. “Research into Performance; Performance into Research,” seminar, Dance Department, Texas Women’s University. 2011 “Uneasy Duets: Contemporary American Dances About Israel and the Mideast Crisis,” The Modern Jewish Experience Through the Lens of Dance, Conference, Melton Center for Jewish Studies and Department of Dance, The Ohio State University, Columbus. “The Good Jew?: Postmodern Dance and Jewish-American Identity,“ public event, “Jewish Dance in the 20th Century: Words, Imagery, Movement,” Melton Center for Jewish Studies and Department of Dance, The Ohio State University, Columbus. 2008 “Dancing with the Archive: Methods for Making Your Research Dance,” research methods seminar, Theatre and English Departments, Northwestern University, Evanston. “Demolition and Innovation: Building Dances in the 20th and 21st Centuries,” Illinois Institute of Technology and Hubbard Company, Chicago. “Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in Modern Dance,” Lecture, Temple Emmanuel, Chicago.

Invited Professional Workshops 2015 “Dance and Identity,” Movement Workshop for 40 women ages 30–80. Women’s Cantor Network Conference, Temple Beth Shalom, Austin (June).

Invited Public and Academic Lectures at University of Texas 2014 “Graham’s Impact on American Modern Dance and Dancers,” pre-performance lecture for the Martha Graham Dance Company, Texas Performing Arts, Bass Concert Hall. 2012 “Holocaust Dance and Theatre of Needless Talents,” pre-performance lecture for Spectrum Dance Theatre, as part of “Creativity in the Face of Death: The Contemporary Resonance of Terezín,” Texas Performing Arts, Bass Concert Hall. 90 people in attendance. 2011 “Hasidic Drag andTransvestitism in Modern Dance,” Reception for the publication of the Feminist Studies Special Issue on Race and Transgenderism, PPP Fridays@2, UT. 2010 “Jews on View: Spectacle, Degradation, and Jewish Corporeality in Contemporary Performance,” CWGS, New Faculty Colloquium. “The Dancing Jew(ess): Ethnic Ambiguity and Jewish Drag in American Modern Dance,” Faculty Lecture Series, co-sponsored by Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, CWGS, and American Studies Department. “Courageous Dance: Dancing Culture,” pre-performance lecture for Black Grace (New Zealand), Texas Performing Arts, Bass Concert Hall. 80 people in attendance.

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Community Author Lectures 2015 “Jewish Divas and Anti-Divas in American Dance,” Tapestry of Learning, Jewish Community Center, Austin. 2012 “Jewish Identity in American Modern Dance,” Tapestry of Learning, Jewish Community Center, Austin. 2009 “Fairies vs. Warriors: Dance and Feminism,” lecture for high-school students enrolled in a pilot program in women’s studies, Garza High School, Austin.

REVIEWS AND PRESS FOR DANCING JEWISH 2016 Jane Desmond, “Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance,” Studies in Theatre and Performance 36:3 (2016), 285–87.

2015 Naomi Jackson, “Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance (Review), Dance Research Journal 47:2 (August 2015), 85–88.

Hannah Kosstrin, “How to Know Jewishness Through Dancing It,” Dance Chronicle 38 (2015), 403–09.

Diana Scott, “Modern Dance and American Jewish Identity: Sharing Assimilation and the Reinvention of Jewishness,” Jewish Currents (Summer 2015), 81–83.

Hannah Schwadron, “Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance by Rebecca Rossen,” American Jewish History 99: 2 (April 2015), 204– 06.

2014 Takiyah Nur Amin, “Interview with Rebecca Rossen on Dancing Jewish,” podcast, Dance Channel, New Books Network, Sept. 2014.

Rebecca S. Cohen, “Dancing Jewish: Exploring Ethnic and Cultural Identity Through Dance,” Jewish Outlook, Austin, Aug. 2014.

CITATIONS OF SCHOLARLY WORK Norm Hirschy, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Oxford University Press • Uses my proposal for Dancing Jewish as a model of excellence when leading workshops on the publishing process. Venues include the Mellon Dance In/And The Humanities Seminar at Stanford (2014) and Northwestern (2015), the Inaugural Editor-in-Residence Keynote at UCLA (2014), and Southern Methodist University (2016).

ARTISTIC WORK Curation and Production 2009 Warriors and Queens: Radical Stagings of Gender and Sexuality in Dance, Department of Theatre and Dance and CWGS, UT • Raised funds, promoted, and organized residency and public performance featuring national feminist and queer choreographers—Matthew Hollis and Breakbone DanceCo. • Coordinated numerous master classes for undergraduates and graduate students. • Moderated post-show discussion with Dr. Ann Cvetkovich (Dept. of English and CWGS). 2002, 2006 Warriors and Queens: Radical Stagings of Gender and Sexuality in Dance, Gender Studies Program and Theatre Department, Northwestern University (NU) • Produced performance series open to NU and Chicago publics that featured local choreographers and moderated post-show discussions. 2005 Plot Twists: Transforming Literature into Performance, English and Theatre Departments, NU • Produced a performance event open to the NU and Chicago publics featuring 500 Clown and The Seldoms. Moderated post-show discussion. Rossen CV 8

1996–99 Movable Beast Dance Festival, Multiple theaters and performance spaces, Chicago. • Co-produced and curated Chicago’s first fringe dance festival; presented fifty national and local artists over three years. • Organized partnerships with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Link’s Hall, Dance Center of Columbia College, and Hothouse Center for International Performance

Site Specific Installations 1998 Movable Beast Dance Festival and Summer Solstice Festival, director and performer, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago • Organized the simultaneous performance of twelve dances throughout the museum. 1997 Audio Ballerinas, Performer, International Symposium of Electronic Art, MCA, Chicago • Collaborated with Audio Gruppe to create installation. Dancers wore electronic tutus outfitted with short-wave radios and solar-powered sensors to create a live score. Loop Troop Installations, choreographer and performer, MCA, Chicago. • Installation of dance works from Loop Troop’s repertory in the museum’s exterior plaza.

Multidisciplinary Collaborations 2000–05 Make Me a Jewish Dance, director, co-choreographer, performer • Invited choreographers Victoria Marks and Dan Froot to “make me a Jewish dance.” • Co-created thirty-minute solo, performed at Northwestern (NU) (2000, 2002), Museum of Contemporary Art (2001), Chicago, Link’s Hall, Chicago (2003). • Set solo on David Dorfman, “Ethno/Choreo/Graphy,” plenary performance, Society of Dance History Scholars, NU, Evanston (2005). 2002 Dancing Jew Ish, director, choreographer, performer, Northwestern • Full-evening work created in collaboration with composer David Pavkovic, choreographer Lisa Wymore, and filmmaker Elizabeth Meister, featuring TanzTeam DanceTheater, the Dave Pavkovic Band, and an ensemble of NU students and faculty. 1999 Tanzmusik, director and performer, Links Hall, Chicago, and Philadelphia Fringe Festival • Featuring guitarist Jeff Parker (Tortoise) and actor Michael Cates (Blue Man Group). 1997 Foot Plus Sound, performer, Cook County Theatre Department (CCTD), Chicago • Full evening of improvised performance with percussionist David Pavkovic, bassist Tatsu Aoki, and dance artists Anthony Gongora and Sheldon B. Smith. 1994–95 Fugue: Concord/Discord, choreographer and performer, Chicago Cultural Center (1995); BamaMachol Festival, Jerusalem, Israel (1994) • Collaborative duet with violinist Katherine Hughes and films by Caroline Faber. 1994 Minutes and Seconds, choreographer, CCTD, Chicago • Original multimedia play created in collaboration with CCTD. 14-minute piece in D-minor, director and performer, BamaMachol Festival, Jerusalem • Improvised trio with bassist Jean-Claude Jones and percussionist Archadi Gottesman. 1993 Nothing and Advertising, choreographer and performer, CCTD, Chicago • Original multimedia play created in collaboration with CCTD.

Choreographed Works 2001 Sarah Bernhardt’s Tosca, Newberry Library, Chicago, and Northwestern University 1998 Match, Movable Beast Dance Festival and Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago 1997 5–10 Portable Pieces, Cleveland Experimental Dance Festival, Cleveland Splice, Dance Chicago Festival, Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago

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1996 long flat white, Dance Chicago Festival, Athenaeum Theater, Chicago Split, “Keith Carollo and Rebecca Rossen at Link’s,” Link’s Hall, Chicago Tide…whatever, “Keith Carollo and Rebecca Rossen at Link’s,” Link’s Hall, Chicago 5 Bits, Cleveland Experimental Dance Festival, Cleveland 1995–96 One Bird’s Wing Flapping and Oil Spill, Link’s Hall, MCA, and Athenaeum Theatre (all Chicago); Cleveland Experimental Dance Festival; American College Dance Festival, Kalamazoo, MI; Krannert Museum, Champaign, IL 1995 Bit, Dance Chicago Festival, Athenaeum Theater, Chicago Tenderly Struck, Rapidly Held, Dance Chicago Festival, Chicago 1993 7-minute piece and 9-minute piece, Around the Coyote Festival, Chicago Consumer Consume Her, Next Generation Project, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago 1992 Eating Your Heart Out, Next Generation Project, Link’s Hall, Chicago. 1991 Wallflower, Oak Theater, Around the Coyote, N.A.M.E. Gallery, and MCA (all Chicago) 1990 Meshugass, MoMing Dance and Arts Center, Chicago Bootcamp, Around the Coyote Festival, Chicago; Wesleyan University, Middletown

Choreography and Repertory for Students 2000 One Bird’s Wing Flapping/Oil Spill, Faculty Concert, Northwestern University, Evanston 1997 At The Front, Faculty Concert, Dance Center of Columbia College (DCCC), Chicago 1996 Predeparture Preparation, Faculty Concert, DCCC 1994 Tenderly Struck, Rapidly Held, Faculty Concert, DCCC 1992 I’ve Got the World on a String, Performance Workshop, Link’s Hall, Chicago

REVIEWS AND PROFILES OF ARTISTIC WORK Scholarly Naomi Jackson, “Searching for Moving Metaphors: Jewishness in American Modern and Postmodern Dance,” Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance, Judith Brin Ingber, ed. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011), 365–66.

National and International Press All About Jewish Theatre (online), 2002 Chicago Jewish News: 10/98 Chicago Reader: 12/90, 11/91, 4/92, 11/92, 5/93, 12/94, 2/95, 11/95, 1/96, 6/96, 11/96, 11/97, 6/98, 2/99 Chicago Sun-Times: 2/95, 6/98 Chicago Tribune: 11/96, 4/05 Cleveland Plain Dealer: 7/96, 7/97 Col Ha’Ir (Israel): 5/94 Daily Northwestern: 4/05 Dance Magazine, 3/96, 4/06 Ha Aritz (Israel): 5/94 Jerusalem Post (Israel): 5/94 Kfar: 5/02 My Jewish Learning (online) Time Out Chicago: 6/05

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TEACHING University of Texas Undergraduate Courses • UGS 303, Dancing America (S14, F15, F16, S18) • TD 311, Languages of the Stage (F08, F09, F12, F13, F14) • TD 317M, Dance History I (F09, F11, F13, F15, F17) • TD 317N, Dance History II (S10, S12, S14, S16, S18) • TD 357T, Narrative in Physical Performance (F14, F16) • TD 357T / JS 363, Jewish Identity in American Performance (S12, F14) • TD 357T / WGS 345, Gender and Sexuality in Physical Performance (S09, S13, S15, S17) Graduate Courses • TD 387D, Researching Performance/Performing Research (S18) • TD 398T, Supervised Teaching (F17) • TD 387D / WGS 393, Choreographing Gender, Dancing Desire (F11, S16) • TD 387D, Theorizing Dance, Dancing Research (S10) • TD 391, Proseminar in Performance as Public Practice (S13, S15, S17)

Guest Lectures, Workshops, Panel Participation 2015–16 “Best Practices in Teaching,” Graduate Seminar, College of Communications, Adria Battaglia 2014–15 Faculty panelist, Research Methods (TD 388), Megan Alrutz 2013–14 “, Costume, History,” lecture for upper-division/graduate seminar in design, Jim Glavan 2012–13 “Myths in Dance Theater,” lecture for Myths, Legends & Tales (DRM 383P), Suzan Zeder Faculty panelist, Research Methods (TD 388), Megan Alrutz 2011–12 Faculty panelist, Research Methods (TD 388), Megan Alrutz 2010–11 Faculty panelist, Proseminar: Performance as Public Practice (TD 391), Deborah Paredez “Working as a Choreographer,” presentation for Choreography (TD 332M), Lyn Wiltshire “Researching Movement,” workshop for Research Methods (TD388), Charlotte Canning “Gender Studies and Dance Studies,” lecture for Foundations I (CWGS 390), Alissa Sherry 2009–10 “Myths in Dance Theater,” lecture for Myths, Legends & Tales (DRM 383P), Suzan Zeder Faculty panelist, Supervised Teaching in Theater and Dance (TD 398T), Susan Zeder “Site-Specific Performance,” workshop for Movement Improvisation (TD 312M) “Researching Dance,” lecture for Research Methods (TD388), Charlotte Canning “Bill T. Jones’s Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” lecture and discussion, Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies in the Fine Arts (FA 350 / CWGS 345), Ann Reynolds “Dance Research,” Proseminar: Performance as Public Practice (TD 391), Charlotte Canning

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Other Universities: Courses Taught 2008 University of Chicago, Theater and Performance Studies, Solo Choreography 2004 George Mason University, Department of Dance • Dance Appreciation, for the general GMU student population • Beginning Modern Dance • Master classes in Advanced Modern Dance 2000–08 Northwestern University • Introduction to Dance History, School of Continuing Studies • Gender and Sexuality in Physical Performance, Gender Studies Program • Moving Narratives: Translating Literature into Dance, English Department • Theater in Context: Theater in Motion, Theatre Department 1993–98 Columbia College Chicago • Beginning Modern Dance, Dance Department • Body Movement for Actors and Collaborative Performance, Theater Department • Freshman Seminar: Art and Media, Freshman Seminar Program

Studio Teaching 1997–2004 Lou Conte/Hubbard Street Dance Studio, Chicago, all levels of Modern Dance

1995–2004 Gus Giordano Dance Center, Evanston, all levels of Modern Dance

1993–97 Hedwig Dance School, Chicago Cultural Center, Modern Dance, Performance Workshops

1991–98 Links Hall Studio, Chicago, all levels of Modern Dance and Performance Workshops

Studio Master Classes and Residencies 2002 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, master class in Advanced Modern Dance

1996–98 American College Dance Festival, Central Region, all levels of Modern Dance

1994 Bikurei Ha’Ittim Cultural Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, residency and master classes in all levels of Modern Dance 1993–94 Arad Arts Program, World Union of Jewish Students, Arad, Israel, eight-month artist residency

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ADVISING University of Texas: Graduate Student Advising and Committees Academic Advising in PPP 2009–present Advises two to six graduate students each year

Advising and Mentorship in the University 2013–14 Leila Grace Pandy, Women’s and Gender Studies M.A. Program (faculty mentor)

Doctoral Dissertations, Current Chair Brianna Figueroa, PPP (*chair), “Ballet Hispanico: Constructing Latina/o Identity through ” Ninoska M’Bewe Escobar, PPP (*co-chair), "Pearl Primus: A Study in the Construction of Aesthetic and Historical Persistence" kt shorb (*chair), dissertation on ethical directing practices and multiracial, queer performance Reader Scott Blackshire, PPP, dissertation on the efficacy of theater and performance education Russ Dembin, PPP, “I’ve been better entertained”: Waiting for Godot in the United States” Agatha Oliveira, PPP, “Black Brazilian Female Dancer-Choreographers” Emily Roehl, American Studies, dissertation on oil, performance, and the environment Katie Van Winkle, PPP, “Playing Revolution: Theatre, Spectatorship, and the State in Ireland 2016” Elizabeth Welch, Art History, dissertation on dance and art in Dance Index

Doctorial Dissertations, Completed 2017 Amy Guenther, PPP (reader), “Pilgrims, Puritans, and Popular Culture: Performing Citizenship in the 20th Century National Imaginary” 2016 Oladotun Ayobade, PPP (reader), “Women That Danced the Fire Dance: Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat Queens, Performance and the Dialectics of Postcolonial Identity” Kirsten Ronald, American Studies (reader), Dancing the Local: Two-step and the Formation of Local Cultures, Local Places, and Local Identities in Austin, TX” 2015 Roén Salinas, PPP (*chair), "Choreographing Borderlands: Chicanas/os, Dance, and the Performance of Identities” Chuyun Oh, PPP (*chair), “Incommensurable Asianness: Dance and Identity in K-pop” 2013 Tara Kohn, Art History (reader), “Books to Connect the ‘People of the Book’: Photographic Constructions of Jewish Community in Three American Anthologies” 2011 Jaclyn Pryor, PPP (reader), “Time Slips: The Politics and Poetics of Performance in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” M.A. Theses (completed) 2017 Zoe Crabtree, PPP (reader), “Doing (Trans)Gender with Words” 2016 Jess O’Rear, PPP (reader), “The (Re)Presentation of Transgender Bodies and Experience on U.S. Stages and Screens” 2012 Brianna Figueroa, PPP (*chair), “Dancing Latina Identity: A Rendering of Contemporary Latina Self-Representation in American Concert Dance” 2011 Ninoska M’Bewe Escobar, PPP (reader), “Finding Black Identity in Fighting Words and Autobiographies of the Body”

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M.F.A. Theses (completed) 2012 Michelle Parkins, Dance (reader), “Dis/Embodied Choreography” Alvin Rangel, Dance (reader), “Tango Vesre (Inverted Tango)” 2009 Margaret Brooker, PPP (reader), “Florence Fleming Noyes: Cultivating Community through Rhythmic Dance Practice”

Doctoral Examination and Colloquium Participation, PPP 2017-18 Laura Baggs, Christine Gwillim, Jess O’Rear 2015–16 Agatha Oliveira 2014–15 Scott Blackshire, Russel Dembin, Brianna Figueroa, Rudy Ramirez, Katie Van Winkle 2012–13 Oladotun Ayobade, Cassidy Browning, M’Bewe Escobar, Amy Guenther, Natasha Lindsey, Lydia Nelson, Chuyun Oh, Katelyn Wood 2010–11 Cassidy Browning, Carrie Kaplan, Eleanor Owicki, Roén Salinas, Katelyn Wood

Doctoral Examination and Colloquium Participation, Other Departments Kirsten Ronald (American Studies, 2014) Emily Roehl (American Studies, 2013) Tara Kohn (Art History, 2009)

Master’s Thesis Colloquium Participation, PPP 2017–18 Jeffrey Gan, Alaina Monts, Kara Mavers 2013–14 Kristen Jackson, James McMaster 2011–12 M’Bewe Escobar 2008–09 Jill Inderstrodt, Lindsey Mantoan, Ray Matthews, Mary Katherine Stickel

Independent Studies Courses Summer 2015 Brianna Figueroa, kt Shorb (PPP) Fall 2012 M’Bewe Escobar (PPP); Chuyun Oh (PPP) Spring 2012 Chuyun Oh (PPP) Fall 2009 Roén Salinas (PPP) Spring 2009 Roén Salinas (PPP); Tara Kohn (Art History)

Artistic Advising and Mentorship 2012 Faculty Advisor for graduate students devising for the New Works Festival • Rachel Gilbert, Ish, an auto-ethnographic solo about Jewish identity 2009–12 Choreographic Mentorship of Michelle Parkins and Alvin Rangel, M.F.A. Students in Dance

Letters of Recommendations (jobs, fellowships, internships) Abimbola Adelakun (PPP); Oladotun Ayobade (PPP), Scott Blackshire (PPP); Meg Brooker (PPP); M’Bewe Escobar (PPP); Brianna Figueroa (PPP); Jeffrey Gan (PPP); Christina Gutierrez (PPP); Tara Kohn (Art History); Nicole Martin (PPP); Agatha Oliveira (PPP); Chuyun Oh (PPP); Michelle Parkins (Dance); Gerald Pitchford (PPP), Jaclyn Pryor (PPP); Alvin Rangel (Dance), Emily Roehl (American Studies); kt Shorb (PPP); Katie Van Winkle (PPP)

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Undergraduate Advising and Committees Academic Advising in Theatre and Dance 2008–15 Advised two to four students per year during registration

B.A. Honors Theses (completed) 2013–14 Lucy Kerr, Philosophy and Dance (co-chair), “Bodies Breaking Boundaries: Collisions of Disability, Dance and Social Philosophy.”* Thesis on contemporary dance and disability. *Winner of the 2014 George H. Mitchell Undergraduate Award for Academic Excellence, Grand Prize Winner ($10,000)

2012–13 Kate Kreager, Plan II Honors Thesis (co-chair), “The Representation of the Holocaust in Contemporary Dance.”** **Winner of the David M. Rosenberg Award for High Achievement in Jewish Studies Victoria Torres, Anthropology (reader), “Drag Apprenticeship in Austin”

Artistic Advising and Mentorship 2012 Faculty Advisor for TD B.A. and B.F.A. students devising work for the New Works Festival • Joey Gaona, Times Two, solo performance • Lucy Kerr, The Way You Move Your Body,” community-based dance project with mixed- ability performers.*** *** Winner of the 2014 George H. Mitchell Undergraduate Award for Academic Excellence, Grand Prize Winner ($10,000)

Letters of Recommendations for undergrads (graduate school, jobs, internships, prizes) Sofia Aranha (Dance); Leigh-Alice Clark (Dance); Jorge Estrada (UGS); Joey Gaona (Dance); Audrey Halm (Dance); Alejandro Herrera (Dance) Lucy Kerr (Dance and Philosophy); Kate Kreager (Plan II); Aleah Maxfield (Dance); Audrey Najera (Dance); Oluwaseun Samuel Olayiwola (Dance); Sarah Pendergraft (Dance); Ahn Pham (Pharmacy); Scarlett Robinson (Theatre and Dance); Melissa Rosko (Theatre and Dance); Alejandra Serrato (Theatre and Dance); Blair Stingley (Engineering); Alyssa Talley (Theatre); Mackenzie Taylor (Dance)

SERVICE: DEPARTMENT Department of Theater and Dance & Performance as Public Practice Program (PPP) Ongoing Since 2016 Editor, Performance in Public and Practice, a blog partnership with Fusebox Festival • Established a blogging initiative in partnership with Fusebox that provides a forum for PPP and UT graduate and undergraduate writers to author reviews and profiles. • Edits all submissions before they are published on Fusebox’s blog. • Seeking to expand the blog to other local festivals.

Since 2011 Director of Graduate Admissions, PPP • Manages and organizes admission process for PPP • Evaluates one third of all applications (approximately 20 per year) • Conducts phone interviews with finalists • Conducts recruitment conversations with applicants and prospective students • Communicates funding packages and terms to admitted students • Connects incoming students to peer and faculty advisors for the forthcoming year • Identifies and submits leading students for special fellowships (Harrington, etc.)

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Faculty Advisor, Fridays@2 Colloquium, a PPP student-organized lectureseries featuring UT and visiting faculty, and local and international artists • Organizes, moderates, and leads two sessions a year • Oversees the scheduling and production of the series • Selects students to serve on the committee; oversees student committee

Diversity Committee, Member • Represents the TD Committee to the College Fine Arts Diversity Committee (FADC)

IRB, Department Chair Reviewer • Reviews and approves all IRB applications for TD students and faculty

Since 2008 Graduate Studies Committee, PPP • Evaluates qualifying exam questions, exams, dissertation and master’s thesis proposals, and participates in oral defenses of dissertation proposals for all PPP students • Proposes leading PPP students for awards (continuing fellowships, teaching awards, etc.) and writes nomination letters

Graduate Teaching Evaluations of PPP Assistant Instructors (two per year)

2017–18 Advisor, Dance Search Committee

Ongoing updating of PPP website

Revision of PPP Programs of Studies and Curriculum Guides (MA, MFA, PhD)

2016–17 Division Head, Performance Studies and Pedagogy • Managed two areas in the department that include these programs: Performance as Public Practice, Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities, and Theater Studies/Pedagogy • Managed budgets and schedules • Attended Division and Program Heads meetings to discuss administrative issues

Chair, Search Committee, Design

Updating of PPP website

2015–16 Diversity Committee, Chair • Authored diversity and inclusivity mission for the department and aims for the TD Diversity Committee, a newly formed committee • Led a team of faculty and students to assess the department’s climate for diversity and how diversity is taught and incorporated within curriculum and production • Organized and co-moderated two Town Halls focused on race and diversity in the department (60 students and faculty in attendance at each) • Represented the department’s interests to the College • Planned a Diversity and Inclusivity Leadership Initiative (for August 2016) for TD and the College of Fine Arts, and secured funding from the College to support the initiative. For the initiative, brought in Patrick Sims, Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer at UW- Madison, as a consultant to lead a TD faculty training and meet with College leadership • Authored curriculum survey to analyze diversity content in TD courses to be given in F16

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Curator and Organizer, “Anne Frank: Holocaust, Memory, and Performance” • Curator of three-day symposium featuring keynote speaker Dr. Jeffrey Shandler (Chair, Jewish Studies, Rutgers), as well as museum curators, Holocaust scholars, and theater and dance artists whose work addresses the Holocaust • Symposium was o-sponsored by TD and the Center for Jewish Studies, in coordination with TD’s production of The Diary of Anne Frank • Moderated panel on Holocaust Representation in Performance and introduced Keynote • Arranged for guest artists to teach master classes in choreography, improvisation, theater for social change, and devising

2013–14 Graduate Executive Committee, TD • Worked with committee to nominate and select TD students for awards and funding. • Participated in the administration of our graduate programs.

Organizer and Facilitator of conversations with the following guest artists: • Choreographer Lar Lubovitch (with Texas Performing Arts, TPA) • Choreographer Allison Orr and Austin Energy employee Robert Ramirez (Forklift Dance Company’s Power Up)

Organizer and Facilitator of two events related to TD’s production of In the Heights • Co-organizer/facilitator of “Reaching New Heights,” a discussion for the TD community on diversity, race, and representation in the department (hosted by PPP Fridays@2 series) • Organizer/facilitator of a panel/workshop on audition for UT undergraduates. Panelists included Fran Dorn (Acting); Lyn Wiltshire and Andrea Beckham (Dance); Roxanne Schroeder-Arce and Rudy Ramirez (Directing); Spencer Blank (Music)

2012–13 Budget Council, TD, elected as assistant professor representative

Search Committee for Performance in the Americans position, TD • Evaluated applications and attended job talks and candidate dinners

Discussant, “Recruitment and Job Placement,” working group for conference of heads of Ph.D. programs in Theater, UT Organizer and moderator of conversations with the following guest artist(s): • Donald Byrd (with TPA and the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies)

Moderator of post-show discussion, “3,” M.F.A. Thesis Dance Concert, Payne Theater, UT

2011–12 Search Committee, Performance in the Americas position, PPP

Revision of PPP Curriculum Guides and Admissions Materials for the TD website • Revising, updating, and copyediting all PPP web-based guides and program materials

Graduate Executive Committee, represented PPP throughout fall semester

Organizer and moderator of conversations with the following guest artists: • David Vaughan, archivist, Merce Cunningham Dance Company (TPA) • Stephen Mills of Ballet Austin

Leader of session on “Academic Publishing,” Performance as Public Practice (PPP), Fridays@2 lecture series, UT Panelist, session on “Conferencing,” Performance as Public Practice (PPP), Fridays@2 lecture series, UT Rossen CV 17

Program Heads Meetings, represented PPP as proxy for director at four meetings

2010–11 Graduate Studies Committee, PPP • While on leave, I attended oral defenses and evaluated the exams and proposals of only the students I am advising or on whose committee I serve

Moderator and organizer for lecture by UCLA’s Dr. Susan Foster, PPP Fridays @ 2, UT

Adviser, African Diasporic Dance Search • Attended interviews with two candidates; attended two master class sessions; evaluated applications and gave feedback and recommendations to Dr. Omi Jones about hiring.

2009–10 TD Executive Committee, elected as the Assistant Professor representative

Search Committee, Dance and Education Position

Graduate Admissions Committee, PPP

Curriculum Revision, PPP • Copyediting and co-revision of all PPP Program of Study and Curriculum Guides

Faculty Speaker for session on “The Job Interview,” PPP, Fridays@2 lecture series, UT

Program Heads Meeting, occasionally represented PPP director at meetings

Facilitator, session with Neil Ieremia, Director of Black Grace Dance Company, Texas Performing Arts and PPP Fridays@2, UT.

2008–09 Graduate Studies Committee, PPP

Graduate Admissions Committee, Dance Program • Evaluated all application portfolios; participated in interviews and selection of candidates.

Program Heads Meeting, represented PPP at occasional meetings

SERVICE: COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS Ongoing Since 2012 College of Fine Arts Diversity Committee (FADC) • Co-led initiative to hire People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond to conduct “Undoing Racism” workshops with Theatre and Dance and the entire College of Fine Arts. • Attends monthly meetings and annual retreats on the subject of diversity in COFA • Frequently reads grant proposals for faculty and student-led diversity programming. • Collaborates on the design and implementation of strategies for increasing diversity at COFA and the recruitment and retention of students, faculty, and staff from underrepresented groups • Contributed to the editing of CDC mission and reports • Attended Reflective Inventory Sub-Committee meetings, contributed to the writing of surveys. • Recruits student representatives from TD to serve on CDC (Jess O’Rear (2015–18); Brianna Figueroa, PPP, 2014-15; Dana Arismendez, B.A., 2014-15; Nicole Martin, Ph.D. student in PPP, served 2012-14)

2017–18 Co-Chair, Curriculum and Programming Committee, FADC

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2010–17 Undergraduate Commencement attendance on behalf of PPP

2010–11 Scholastic Dismissal Appeals Committee

SERVICE: UNIVERSITY 2015–16 Selection Committee, Gilbert Teaching Excellence Award, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies Panelist on Women and Leadership, Texas Orange Jackets event

Judge, Texas Revue, Talent Show

2014–16 Prize Committee, Lucia, John, and Melissa Gilbert Teaching Excellence Award, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts, UT

2014–15 Symposium on Research and Teaching, UT. • Based on my research and teaching record, invited by Provost and Executive Vice President to attend full-day symposium imagining the future of research and teaching as mutually sustaining endeavors at UT.

Fulbright Committee • Evaluated and interviewed 16-20 applicants and mentored 2-3 candidates.

2013–14 Mentor, Faculty Mentorship Program, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS)

Invited Speaker, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies Advisory Council (SCJS)

2012–13 Moderator, “Creativity in the Face of Death,” panel with choreographer Donald Byrd and musicians Daniel Hope, Jeffrey Kahan, for “Creativity in the Face of Death: The Contemporary Resonance of Terezín,” symposium, SCJS and Texas Performing Arts, Ransom Center, UT.

Moderator, panel on “Racialized Performance and Sexuality,” CWGS Emerging Scholarship Conference, UT. Nominated to serve on the Faculty Council, a university-wide council.

2011–12 Research Grant Applications Reviewer, Office of Vice President for Research

2009–10 Organizing Committee, “Uncanny Beauty: A Celebration of Deborah Hay,” Symposium, CWGS

Moderator for “Aesthetics/Art/History,” panel for “Uncanny Beauty: A Celebration of Deborah Hay,” Symposium, CWGS, UT. Introduction to keynote speaker, Susan Foster, “Uncanny Beauty: A Celebration of Deborah Hay,” Symposium, CWGS, UT.

SERVICE: OTHER UNIVERSITIES George Mason University, Department of Dance 2004 M.F.A. Redesign Committee Supervision of Graduate Teaching Assistants B.F.A. Audition Committee

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Columbia College Chicago, Department of Dance 1996–98 Faculty Coordinator and Advisor, Non-Majors Dance Program Self-Study Committee for Dance Department Accreditation Authored syllabi for Non-Majors Program in accordance with accreditation procedure

1997–98 Curriculum Committee, Freshman Seminar Program

SERVICE: PROFESSIONAL National and International Ongoing Commitments 2015–2018 Editor and Chair, Studies in Dance History (SIDH), Dance Studies Association (DSA). Appointed for 3-year term. • Editor in chief of SIDH, a book series, published by University of Wisconsin Press and the DSA, which publishes one book per year distributed to membership and sold internationally. • Leads acquisition for the series by recruiting authors, reviewing all proposals, and communicating feedback to authors. • Manuscript editing and support. • Directs Ed Board meetings (two per year), and leads board of eight scholars. • Works with UW Press and DSA management to manage publications and budget. • Oversaw publication of Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies, a peer- reviewed journal produced annually by the DSA for members from 2015–17.

Board of Directors (ex-officio), DSA.

DSA Publications Executive Committee. Appointed.

2016–17 Co-Chair, Task Force on Publications, SDHS and Congress on Research in Dance • Assembled a task force to evaluate SDHS’s and CORD’s publications portfolio and author job descriptions and policy in advance of our merger into the Dance Studies Association (DSA).

Member, Ad-hoc Committee for the Endowment for Studies in Dance History

2010–14 Editorial Board, Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS). Appointed. • Board meets twice annually to review book and journal submissions.

Editorial Board, Choreographic Practices, peer-reviewed journal, since 2010 (appointed) • Peer Reviews one to two articles per year.

Additional Professional Service 2017 Blurb writer, Oxford University Press, for books by Hannah Kosstrin and Hannah Schwadron

2016 Tenure Reviewer, Queens College, CUNY, New York

2015 Tenure Reviewer, Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago

Manuscript Reviewer, OUP, Book Proposal in Dance and Jewish Studies

Manuscript Reviewer, Dance Research Journal

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2014 Grant Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend Competition

Academic Council, American Jewish History Society (appointed through 2017)

2013 Program Committee, Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) and Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS), joint conference, UC Riverside.

Moderator, “Reconstituting Roots: Conversations on the Autonomy of the Racialized Body,” panel featuring four of my students. Congress on Research on Dance/Society of Dance History Scholars, conference, UC Riverside. Moderator, Plenary Performance, Congress on Research on Dance/Society of Dance History Scholars, conference, UC Riverside. 2012 Moderator, “Crossing Boundaries of Individual, Nation, and Folk” and “Dance and/as Migration,” paper panels, Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS), Philadelphia. 2011 Moderator for “Changing Jewish Identity in the U.S.,” panel at Modern Jewish Experience Through the Lens of Dance, Conference, Melton Center for Jewish Studies and Department of Dance, The Ohio State University, Columbus. 2010 Dance Studies Leadership Summit, SDHS, New York. • Invited participant in summit to discuss dance studies organizations and the state of the field. Those invited included leading and emerging voices in the field.

Committee Chair, Lippincott Award Committee for Best Published Essay, SDHS

Manuscript Reviewer, Feminist Studies, peer-reviewed journal

2009 Committee Member, Lippincott Award Committee for Best Published Essay, SDHS

2007 “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity and Culture,” Respondent, post-performance discussion, Conney Conference in Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison 2005 Local Arrangements Committee for Annual Conference, SDHS and NU

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