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CORD Past Award Winners
2007
 

Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research:

  • Robert Farris Thompson

Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research:

  • Susan Leigh Foster

Outstanding Service to Dance Research:

  • George Dorris


Graduate Research Award:

  • Anurima Banerji of New York University for, "Paratopias of Performance: The Choreographic Practices of Chandralekha"


2006
 

Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research:

  • Allegra Fuller-Snyder
  • Elsie Dunin

Outstanding Publication Award:

  • David Gere for How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS
  • Anne Décoret-Ahiha for Les Danses Exotiques en France, 1880 - 1940
  • Susan Manning (Honorable Mention) for Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion


2005
 

Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research:

  • Marcia Siegel

Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research:

  • Katherine Dunham
  • Anna Halprin

Outstanding Publication Award:

  • Nancy Reynolds & Malcolm McCormick for No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century


Graduate Research Award:

  • Tresa Randall of Temple University for “Hanya Holm, Community, and Dance as ‘Genuine Folk Culture’”


 

2003

Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research:

  • Sally Banes

Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research:

  • Jane Bonbright

Outstanding Service to Dance Research:

  • Sondra Fraleigh
  • Basilio Esteban Villaruz

Outstanding Publication Award:

  • Anthony Shay for Choreographic Politics: State Folk Companies, Representation and Power
  • Judy Van Zile for Perspectives on Korean Dance

Graduate Research Award:

  • Ya-Ping Chen of New York University for “Embodying Gender Stuggle and Social Protest: The Influence of Tanztheater and the Wakening of Feminist Consciousness in Taiwan’s Modern Dance”
  • Paul Scolieri of New York University for “Choreographing Encounter: Aztec Dance and the Noche Triste”


       

2001


Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research:

  • Deborah Jowitt

Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research:

  • Beate Gordon

Outstanding Service to Dance Research:

  • Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race politics in Swing Era

Outstanding Publication Award:

  • Andrea Snyder & Sarah R. Cohen for Art, Dance, and the Body in French Culture of the Ancient Regime

Graduate Research Award:

  • Vanessa Rhea Justice of The Ohio State University for “Mapping the Phenomenon of the Body: The Concept of Body as Experienced and Expressed by Isadora Duncan, Chandralekha, and Anna Halprin”
  • Indira Etwaroo of Temple University for “’On-the-Outside-Looking-in and Lovin’ It’: A Philosophical Look at the Position of Women of Color in Dance Studies in Academia: A Study Within a Study”

 
2000
 

Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research:

  • Ivor Guest


Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research:

  • David Vaughn


Outstanding Service to Dance Research:

  • Patricia Rowe

Outstanding Publication Award:

  • Paul Kaiser & Shelley Eshkar for Hand-Drawn Spaces and Ghostcatching

Graduate Research Award:

  • Juliet McMains of University of California Riverside for her paper “Brownface: A New Performance of Minstrelsy in Competitive Latin American Dance”


  

1999

Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research:

  • Ernestine Stodelle

Outstanding Service to Dance Research:

  • Judy Van Zile


Outstanding Publication Award:

  • Naima Prevots for Dance for Export: Cultural Diplomacy and the Cold War
  • Lynn Garafola for Jose Limon: An Unfinished Memoir

Graduate Research Award:

  • Frances Bruce of Texas Woman’s University for “Mats Eks Giselle: The Familiar Disrupted”
  • Marika Hedemyr of Laban Center, London for “The Dancing Body in New Mental Images of Time and Space”
  • Anthea Kraut of Northwestern University for her paper “Staging the Diaspora: The Concerts of Zora Neale Hurston and Katherine Dunham”
  • Mary Anne Santos Newhall for “Uniform Bodies: Masses Moving and Modern Totalitarian Politics”

1998


Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research:     

  • Kapila Vatsyayan


Leadership in Dance Research:     

  • Vicky Risner

Service to Dance Research:     

  • Lucy Venable

Graduate Research Award:     

  • Ju-yeon Ryu
  • Elizabeth Templeton

 
1997


Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research:    

  • Ann Hutchinson Guest

Leadership in Dance Research:     

  • Selma Jean Cohen

Graduate Research Award:

  • Anadel Lynton Snyder


1996

Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research:

  • Joann Kealiinohomoku

Leadership in Dance Research 

  • Gigi Oswald

Service to Dance Research:

  • Dorothy Lourdou

Outstanding Publication Award:

  • Ann Daly for Done into Dance: Isadora Duncan in America

Graduate Research Award:     

  • Iro Tembeck
  • Julia Wagner
  • Danielle Robinson
  • Ananya Chatterjea

1995


Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research:     

  • Carl Wolz

Outstanding Service to Dance Research:     

  • Judith Chapman

Outstanding Publication Award:    

  • Sally Ann Ness, for Body, Movement and Culture: Kinesthetic And Visual Symbolism in a Philippine Community
  • Marta Savigliano for Tango and the Political Economy of Passion

Graduate Research Award:     

  • Anna Scott
 

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