Nadine George-Graves

Nadine George-Graves is Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California, San Diego and past president of the Congress on Research in Dance. 

She also served on the executive boards of the American Society for Theater Research and the Society of Dance History Scholars and the editorial boards of SDHS and Choreographic Practices.  George-Graves has been Vice Chair of the Department of Theater and Dance and Acting Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at UC San Diego. 
She is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater. 

Her creative projects include Architectura, a dance theater piece inspired by architecture, about how we build our lives, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Fucking A, and Topdog/Underdog. 

Recipient of the 2014 Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center

Works
She is the author of a number of articles on African American theater and dance. 

Her major works include:
 The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940, 2003, 
Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out,  (review), 2012 Sally Banes Award honorable mention of the American Society for Theater Research 
"'Just Like Being at the Zoo', Primitivity and Ragtime Dance", in: Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader, 2009, , pp.  55–71

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