Award Winners
* 2022 - Royona Mitra, “Unmaking Contact: Choreographic Touch at the Intersections of Race, Caste, and Gender” (Dance Research Journal, 2021) * 2022 - (Honorable Mention): Lindsey Drury, "The Double Life of Pagan Dance: Indigenous Rituality, Early Modern Dance, and the Language of US Newspapers” (European Journal of Theatre and Performance, 2021) * 2021 - Jade Power-Sotomayor, "Moving Borders and Dancing in Place: Son Jarocho's Speaking Bodies at the Fandango Fronterizo" (TDR, 2020) * 2021 - (Honorable Mention): Hannah Kosstrin, “Whose Jewishness? Inbal Dance Theater and Cold War American Spectatorship” (American Jewish History, 2020) * 2020: Judith Hamera, “Rehearsal Problems: Gus Giordano’s ‘The Rehearsal’ and the Serious Business of Middlebrow Dance” in Theatre Journal (June 2019, Vol.71:2): 171-189. * 2019 - Rizvana Bradley, “Black Cinematic Gesture and the Aesthetics of Contagion” in TDR (Spring 2018): 14-30 * 2018 - VK Preston, "Baroque Relations: Performing Silver and Gold in Daniel Rabel’s Ballet of the Americas," in ''The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment'', edited by Mark Franko (New York: Oxford, 2017), pp. 285-310. * 2017 - Kareem Khubchandani, “Snakes on the Dance Floor: Bollywood, Gesture, and Gender,” ''The Velvet Light Trap'' 77 (2016), pp. 69-85. * 2016 - Brandon Shaw, “Phantom Limbs and the Weight of Grief in Sasha Waltz’s noBody” ''Theatre Journal'' 67 (2015), pp. 21-42. * 2016 (Honorable Mention) - Andrea Harris, “Sur la Pointe on the Prairie: Giuseppina Morlacchi and the Urban Problem in the Frontier Melodrama,” in ''The Journal of American Drama and Theatre'' 27:1 (Winter 2015). * 2015 - Sherril Dodds, “The Choreographic Interface: Dancing Facial Expression in Hip-Hop and Neo-Burlesque Striptease” in ''Dance Research Journal'' 46:Special Issue 02 (2014), pp. 39–56. * 2014 - Alexandra Kolb, “The Migration and Globalization of Schuhplattler Dance: A Sociological Analysis” in ''Cultural Sociology'' 7:1, pp. 39–55 * 2013 - Anurima Banerji, “Dance and the Distributed Body: Odissi, Ritual Practice, and Mahari Performance” in ''About Performance'' 11: 7–39 * 2013 - J. Lorenzo Perillo, “‘If I was not in prison, I would not be famous’: Discipline, Choreography, and Mimicry in the Philippines” in ''Theatre Journal'' 63: 607–621. * 2011 - Selby Wynn Schwartz, “Martha@Martha: A Séance with Richard Move” in ''Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory'' 20.1 (2010): 61–87. * 2011 (Honorable Mention) - Öykü Potuoglu-Cook, “The Uneasy Vernacular: Choreographing Multiculturalism and Dancing Difference Away in Globalised Turkey” in ''Anthropological Notebooks'' 16.3 (2010): 93–105. *2010 - Kate Elswit, "'Berlin ... Your Dance Partner is Death" in ''TDR: The Drama Review'', 53:1 2009, pp. 73–92. *2009 - Cindy Garcia, "Don't leave me Celia: Salsera homosociality and pan-Latina corporealities" in ''Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory'', 18:3, pp. 199–213., *2009 - honorable mention to Victoria Phillips Geduld, "Performing Communism in the American Dance: Culture, Politics, and the New Dance Group" in ''American Communist History'' 7:1, 2008, pp. 39–65. *2009 - honorable mention to Melissa Blanco Borelli, "Yahora que vas a hacer, mulata? Hip choreographies in the Mexican cabaretera film 'Mulata'" in ''Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory'', 18:3, pp. 215–233. *2008 - Priya Srinivasan, "The Bodies Beneath the Smoke or What's Behind the Cigarette Poster: Unearthing Kinesthetic Connections in American Dance History" in ''Discourse in Dance'', Ramsey Burt and Susan Leigh Foster, editors, Volume 4 Issue 1 2007, pp. 7–48. *2008 - Rebekah Kowal, "Dance Travels: 'Walking With Pearl'" ''Performance Research'', 12(2), pp. 85–94, 2007. *2007 - Anthea Kraut, "Recovering Hurston, Reconsidering the Choreographer" which appeared in ''Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory'', 16/1 (March 2006). *2007 - honorable mention to April K. Henderson, "Dancing Between Islands: Hip Hop and the Samoan Diaspora" which appeared in ''The Vinyl Ain't Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture'', Dipannita Basuand and Sidney J. Lemelle, eds., London: Pluto Press, 2006. * 2006 - Kimerer LeMothe, " 'A God Dances through Me': Isadora Duncan on Friedrich Nietzsche's Revaluation of Values," ''Journal of Religion'' 85 (2), 2005, pp. 241–266. * 2005 - No prize awarded. * 2004 - Danielle Goldman, "Ghostcatching: An Intersection of Technology, Labor, and Race," ''Dance Research Journal'' v. 35/2 & 36/2 (Winter 2003 & Summer 2004 combined issue) pp. 68–87. 2004. * 2003 - No prize awarded. * 2002 - Theresa Jill Buckland, "Th'Owd Pagan Dance": Ritual, Enchantment, and an Enduring Intellectual Paradigm", in ''Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement'', vols 11, no. 4 and 12, no. 1, Fall 2001/Spring 2002. * 2001 - Petra Kuppers, "Deconstructing Images: Performing Disability," ''Contemporary Theatre Review'' 11.3&4 (2001). * 2000 - Anne Flynn and Lisa Doolittle, "Dancing in the Canadian Wasteland: A Post-Colonial Reading of Regionalism in the 1960s and 1970s," in ''Dancing Bodies, Living Histories: New Writing about Dance and Culture'', edited by Anne Flynn and Lisa Doolittle (Banff Centre Press, 2000). * 1999 - Susan C. Cook, "Watching Our Step: Embodying Research, Telling Stories," in ''Audible Traces: Gender, Identity, and Music'', edited by Elaine Barkin and Lydia Hamessley (Zurich: Carciofoli Verlagshaus, 1999). * 1998 - Ananya Chatterjea, " Chandralekha: Negotiating the Female Body and Movement in Cultural/Political Signification," ''Dance Research Journal'' 30.2 (Spring 1998). * 1997 - Jody Bruner, "Redeeming Giselle: Making a Case for the Ballet We Love to Hate," in ''Rethinking the Sylph: New Perspectives on the Romantic Ballet'', edited by Lynn Garafola (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1997). * 1996 - Linda J. Tomko, "Fête Accompli: Gender, 'Folk Dance,' and Progressive-Era Political Ideals in New York City," in ''Corporealities: Dancing Knowledge, Culture, and Power'', edited by Susan Leigh Foster (London and New York: Routledge, 1996).Resources