Nadine George-Graves
{{Short description|Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California, San Diego}}
Nadine George-Graves is an academic who works at the intersection of African American studies, gender studies, and dance and theater history.{{cite book |editor1-last=George-Graves |editor1-first=Nadine |title=The Oxford handbook of dance and theater |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford university press |location=New York |isbn=9780199917495 |page=xix |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199917495.001.0001 |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199917495.001.0001}} She holds the Naomi Willie Pollard Endowed Chair at Northwestern University with appointments in the Department of Performance Studies and Department of Theatre .{{cite web |title=Nadine George-Graves |url=https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/nadine-george-graves.html |website=School of Communication - Northwestern University |language=en}} She is also the executive co-editor of Dance Research Journal.{{cite web | url=https://www.dancestudiesassociation.org/drj-submission-guidelines | title=DRJ Submission Guidelines }} She has a PhD in Theater and Drama from Northwestern University, and a BA in Philosophy and Theater Studies from Yale University.{{Cite web|title=Nadine George-Graves|url=https://dance.osu.edu/people/george.946|access-date=2020-08-28|website=dance.osu.edu|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Studio|first=Familiar|date=2020-08-28|title=Dr. Nadine George Graves joins the Dance Research Journal…|url=https://dancestudiesassociation.org/news/2020/dr-nadine-george-graves-joins-the-dance-research-journal-editorial-board|access-date=2020-08-28|website=DSA|language=en}}
Career
George-Graves formerly served as a professor of Theater and Dance, vice chair of the Department of Theater and Dance, and Acting Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at the University of California, San Diego. She was also the previous chair of the Department of Dance and a professor of Theatre at The Ohio State University.
George-Graves is also the past president of the Congress on Research in Dance.[http://theatre.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/phd/NadineGeorge/index.htm Nadine George-Graves], UCSD profile{{cite web|url=http://www.cordance.org/board|title=DSA - Board of Directors|website=www.cordance.org}} She also served on the executive boards of the Lincoln Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, American Society for Theater Research, the Society of Dance History Scholars, the editorial boards of SDHS and Choreographic Practices, and is a founding member of the Collegium for African Diasporic Dance (CADD).
Creative projects
Her creative projects include Architectura, a dance theater piece inspired by architecture,{{cite web|url=http://www.theatre167.org/architectura-by-nadine-george-graves.html|title=Architectura by Nadine George-Graves|website=Theatre 167}} about how we build our lives, Suzan-Lori Parks' Fucking A, and Topdog/Underdog.
Awards
She is a recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Scholarly Research in Dance Award from the Dance Studies Association and Dramaturg for Bessie Honoree Brother(hood) Dance! in 2020.{{cite web |title=Outstanding Scholarly Research |url=https://dasa.memberclicks.net/outstanding-scholarly-research |website=Dance Studies Association |access-date=4 June 2023}} In 2016 she received the Diversity Equity Inclusion Distinguished Teaching Award; in 2014 she received the Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center.{{cite web|url=http://www.wic.org/LivingLegacy2014.html|title=Women's International Center - Living Legacy Awards 2014|website=www.wic.org}}
Works
She is the author of a number of books and articles on African American theater and dance.
;Books
- The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940, 2003, {{ISBN|0312225628}}Reviews of The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville:
- {{cite journal |last1=Manifold |first1=Gay |title=The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater, 1900-1940 (review) |journal=Theatre Journal |date=2001 |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=663–664 |doi=10.1353/tj.2001.0120 |s2cid=201791970 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/34924/summary |issn=1086-332X}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Dinwiddie |first1=Michael |title=The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater, 1900–1940, by Nadine George-Graves. 2000. New York: St. Martin's Press, xviii + 183 pp., photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth. |journal=Dance Research Journal |date=January 2001 |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=134–138 |doi=10.2307/1477813 |jstor=1477813 |s2cid=198788101 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/dance-research-journal/article/abs/royalty-of-negro-vaudeville-the-whitman-sisters-and-the-negotiation-of-race-gender-and-class-in-african-american-theater-19001940-by-nadine-georgegraves-2000-new-york-st-martins-press-xviii-183-pp-photographs-appendices-notes-bibliography-index-4995-cloth/B7A008252000B2E9A1CF822EA7C73A3F |language=en |issn=1940-509X}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Lewis |first1=Barbara |title=Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910/The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theatre, 1900-1940/African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader |via=ProQuest |journal=Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film |date=Winter 2003 |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=90–96 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/220d563890faa5d85d50b64ea26f8a58/1 |language=en}}
- Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out, 2012, {{ISBN|978-0-299-23554-3}};Reviews of Urban Bush Women:
- {{cite journal |last1=Cash |first1=Debra |title=Work That Body |journal=The Women's Review of Books |date=2011 |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=26–28 |jstor=41331720 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41331720 |issn=0738-1433}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Kowal |first1=Rebekah J. |title=Measuring a Choreographic Legacy in Humanitarian Terms: New Books on Pearl Primus and the Urban Bush Women |journal=Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research |date=2012 |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=191–196 |doi=10.3366/drs.2012.0047 |jstor=23326534 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23326534 |issn=0264-2875}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Das |first1=Joanna Dee |title=Review of Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out |journal=Dance Research Journal |date=2013 |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=145–148 |doi=10.1017/S0149767713000089 |jstor=23524658 |s2cid=193264779 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23524658 |issn=0149-7677}}
2012 Sally Banes Award honorable mention of the American Society for Theatre Research{{cite web|url=http://www.astr.org/?page=AwardWinnerArchive|title=Award Winner Archive - American Society For Theatre Research (ASTR)|website=www.astr.org}}
- (edited){{cite book |title=The Oxford handbook of dance and theater |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199917495.001.0001 |isbn=9780199917495 |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199917495.001.0001 |editor-last1=George-Graves |editor-first1=Nadine }} 2016 Sally Banes Award honorable mention of the American Society for Theatre Research
;Chapters
- "'Just Like Being at the Zoo', Primitivity and Ragtime Dance", in: Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader, 2009, {{ISBN|025207565X}}, pp. 55–71
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