Awards and Honors

The CORD awards were established to:

• recognize scholarly excellence  
• contribute to motivating further research  
• signal to the scholarly world at large the work of the individuals recognized.

The awards contribute not only to the visibility of the individuals and works honored, but also to the visibility of dance research and to our continuing drive for excellence in dance scholarship. Consider your nomination a way to influence the field and the CORD organization.  By acknowledging your mentors, recognizing individuals who have strongly influenced you or created opportunities for you, your peers or organization, naming those who have expanded your conception of dance research, or initiated directions you'd like to see dance research (and CORD) take in the future, you participate in formulating that future.

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The Congress on Research in Dance is now seeking nominations for its 2011 awards in three categories:

 

• Outstanding Scholarly Research in Dance
• Dixie Durr Award for Outstanding Service to Dance Research
• Outstanding Publications Relating to Dance Research (published 2008 or later)

For the specifics of the Awards, please refer to the next page.

The CORD awards were established to:
• recognize scholarly excellence  
• contribute to motivating further research  
• signal to the scholarly world at large the work of the individuals recognized.

The awards contribute not only to the visibility of the individuals and works honored, but also to the visibility of dance research and to our continuing drive for excellence in dance scholarship. Consider your nomination a way to influence the field and the CORD organization.  By acknowledging your mentors, recognizing individuals who have strongly influenced you or created opportunities for you, your peers or organization, naming those who have expanded your conception of dance research, or initiated directions you'd like to see dance research (and CORD) take in the future, you participate in formulating that future.

To make a nomination in the categories of Scholarly Research or Service, submit:

• a letter detailing why the nominee should be put forward for the specific award
• the nominee's curriculum vitae
• additional relevant documentary materials to support the case  
• a declaration of your interest in nominating the candidate, if any

 

The more thorough the letter of recommendation, and the more complete the accompanying documentation, the more convincing the nomination will be.  Scholars may be at any career stage, as long as they satisfy the purpose of the award.  All nominations must include the name and contact information of the nominator.  Nominations in these categories may be made only by CORD members, but individuals nominated for awards need not be CORD members.

In the category of Publication, CORD members and publishers may submit nominations.  Submit a letter specifying the original contribution that the work makes, together with three copies of the work (these may be requested from the publisher).

Nominations that do not address the criteria of the specific awards will not be considered.

Nominations and all supporting materials must be received by 15 March 2010.

Send email nominations and materials (and, for the publication award, three copies of published materials) to:

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Award for Outstanding Scholarly Research in Dance (No more than one per year)

This award honors an exceptional scholar or leader for sustained contributions to dance research.  (In past years, separate awards were given in the categories of Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research and Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research, and this award encompasses both categories.)  Selection may be based on a significant body of work, a single contribution that has a major lasting impact on scholarly dance research, or leadership that furthers the field.  Any area of dance scholarship is eligible.  

To nominate: send a letter of nomination specifying and documenting the nominee’s contributions to dance studies.  Supporting documents are vital.  Additional materials may be requested of the nominator by the Committee.

Dixie Durr Award for Outstanding Service to Dance Research (No more than one per year)

This award recognizes the indispensable aid rendered the field of dance studies by people who sustain existing structures, institutions, and organizations for dance research.  The award calls attention to superlative labor, especially, but not limited to, unpaid labor performed for extended periods of time.  Such labor might make professional organizations run efficiently, ease and facilitate the use of archives or collections; or aid grant-writing or publication processes.  The Committee may entertain additional formulations of "service” so long as they do not conflict with the Outstanding Scholarly Research category.  

To nominate: submit a letter of nomination specifying and documenting the nature and duration of the nominee’s service activity and its significance to dance studies.  Supporting documents are vital.  Additional materials may be requested of the nominator by the Committee.

Award for Outstanding Publication (Several publications may be cited if warranted)

This award recognizes outstanding publications.  “Publication” is
interpreted to include any publicly accessible items such as journal
articles, books, films, CD ROMS, computer software or other electronic
products.  Subjects may embrace any area of scholarly research.  Any
publication representing dance scholarship or that has an impact on
dance scholarship is eligible.  The author/producer of the publication
need not be a member of CORD or be primarily identified with the field
of dance, so long as the publication itself relates to dance. 
Publications honored may have been published at any time during the
three years preceding the award (2008, 2009, or 2010).

To nominate:  Submit a letter specifying the original contribution that the work makes, together with three copies of the work.

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2008 Award Winners 

 

Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research:
Joan Acocella

Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research:
Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Outstanding Service to Dance Research: 
Suzanna Tamminen

Outstanding Publication: 
Juliet McMains for Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry

Outstanding Graduate Research: 
Angela K. Ahlgren, University of Texas at Austin, for "In Search of Something Else": Tiffany Tamaribuchi, Taiko Drumming, and Queer Spectatorship"

View Past CORD Award Winners