PUBLICATIONS
_______________________________________________________ Writing the Body; Staging the Other: Essays on Corporeal Marking, Creating, and Resisting “Othering the Religious Right: Ameritude, Whiteness, and the USA Freedom Kids” ed. Brynn Shiovitz. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Forthcoming. ________________________________________________________ Perspectives on American Dance: The New Millenium "Pole Dancing for Jesus: Healthy Bodies, Healthy Souls" eds. Jennifer Atkins, Sally Sommer, & Tricia Young. University Press of Florida, 2018. ________________________________________________________ Humanities Education Research Journal “Beyond the On-Campus Humanities Learning Experience: A Case Study in UtilizingAssessment Tools in an Online Dance Studies Course” with co-authors Kimberly Robinson and Rebecca Timmons. Interdisciplinary Humanities 31.1 (2014): 72-80. _________________________________________________________ Dance Research Journal “Sam Gill’s Dancing Culture Religion” Book Review. Dance Research Journal 46.2 (August 2014): 118-120. _________________________________________________________ SDHS Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies Special Issue: Dancing Spaces "Forbidden Altars: U.S. Liturgical Dance after the Second Vatican Council" Vol. XXXIII (Spring 2014) _________________________________________________________ Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory "Katja Kolcio's Movable Pillars: Organizing Dance, 1956-1978" Book Review, 21:1 (2011): 140-142 _________________________________________________________ Thinking Gender Papers "The Tension in Solidarity: Race, Gender, and National Identity in Katherine Dunham's Southland" UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Publication Date: 02-01-2009 _________________________________________________________ The Dance Magazine of Dallas “Alonzo King: Living in the Moment” (2007) “TCU Dance Professor Receives Award” (2006) “Gwen Owens: A Local Dance Legend” (2006) “National Tap Dance Celebration” (2005) “Making Dreams Come True” (2005) _________________________________________________________ |
PRESENTATIONS (selected) ___________________________________ Ohio State University "Performing Trump's 'Ameritude': The USA Freedom Kids and the Tactical Transmission of Family Values" Dance Studies Association, 2017 Stanford University Dept. of Dance “Divinity & Presence” Guest Lecturer, Dance 152: Introduction to Improvisation in Dance Stanford University, 2016 Camelot Academy of Arts, Science & Technology “Undergraduate Study at Top U.S. Universities” Guangzhou & Beijing, China, 2016 Center for the Arts, Religion, & Education “The Constantly Confessing Ethnographer” Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, 2015 Society of Dance History Scholars/ Congress on Research in Dance “Un/Catholic Confessions: On Passing for Christian” Society of Dance History Scholars and Congress on Research in Dance University of Iowa (Organized Panel), 2014 Lived History of Vatican II "Pioneering Liturgical Dance in New York City after the Second Vatican Council" Notre Dame, 2014 American Academy of Religion "The Birth of the 20th Century American Liturgical Dancer: Modernity, Multiculturalism, and Reform" Baltimore, MD, 2013 Congress on Research in Dance "Pole Dancing for Jesus: The Healthy, the Holy & the Sexy" Regenerations: Cultural Legacies in Contemporary Contexts The University of New Mexico, 2012 University of California, Riverside "Stephen Colbert, Liturgical Dancer, or How to Make a Ridiculous Liturgical Dance" Dance Under Construction, 2012 Harvard University "Between Theology and Embodiment: The Practice of Liturgical Dance in the Sanctuary Space" The Body in History, the Body in Space, 2011 Society of Dance History Scholars “The Electronic Counterpart: The Body and Spectacle in David Dorfman’s underground” Dance & Spectacle – The University of Surrey, UK, 2010 University of California, Los Angeles “The Tension in Solidarity: Gender, Race, and National Identity in Katherine Dunham’s Southland” Thinking Gender Conference, 2009 ___________________________________________________ |