Past Honorees

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"

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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

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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’”

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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”

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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”

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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”

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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”

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

Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research:    

• Ann Hutchinson Guest

Leadership in Dance Research:     

• Selma Jean Cohen

Graduate Research Award:

• Anadel Lynton Snyder

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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

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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