Thomas F. DeFrantz SLIPPAGE:Performance|Culture|Technology Duke University African and African American Studies DANCE|Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Computational Media, Arts and Culture DUKE Box 90686 2020 Campus Drive Rubenstein Arts Center Durham, NC 27708
[email protected] Education PhD, Performance Studies Department, New York University Dissertation: Revelations: The Choreographies of Alvin Ailey MA, Liberal Studies, City College of New York Thesis Topic: Towards A Political Economy of Dance BA, Music Composition and Theater Studies, Yale College, New Haven, CT Fellowships and Honors Outstanding Artist, North Carolina Governor’s Commendation 2019 Stanford Humanities Fellowship (declined) 2019 Outstanding Research in Dance Award, Dance Studies Association 2017 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis 2015 Martin Luther King, Jr./Cesar Chávez/Rosa Parks Visiting Professorship University of Michigan 2013 National Performance Network Creation Grant for Queer Theory! 2005 “Best of the New” for Moves Across the Water, Boston Globe Ideas 2005 National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Directing Fellowship Semifinalist 2000 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency 1999 Academic Positions 2011- Full Professor, African and African American Studies/Dance, Duke University 2010 Visiting Professor, Department of Dance, University of Nice, France 2008-2010 Visiting Professor, Theater Studies and African American Studies, Yale University 2008 Visiting Professor, Hampshire College, Dance Department