Contact Information
607 S Mathews Ave.
M/C 148
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
dance, performance & practices of embodiment; racial capitalism, political economy & politics of cultural production in "postcolonial" West Africa; value; development & self-determination; work & professionalization, patronage & transnational networks in cultural industries; gender, race, class; style, expression, genre and affect; "listening," improvisation and rhythm. Locations: Burkina Faso, France. Advisors: Professor Faye Harrison & Professor Krystal Smalls.
Education
MA, African Studies (2014), Yale University
BA magna cum laude, American Studies & Dance (2009), Smith College
Grants
FLAS Fellowship (Bamanankan III, IV), Center for African Studies, UIUC, Summer 2024 & Academic Year 2024-25
US Student Fulbright Fellow, Burkina Faso, 2023 (Declined)
Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, 2022
Problems in Decolonizing Academia, HRI Research Cluster (participant/convener), 2020-21
FLAS Fellowship (Bamanankan I, II), Center for Global Studies, UIUC, Summer 2020 & Summer 2021
FLAS Fellowship (Arabic), Center for Global Studies, UIUC, Spring 2019; Academic Year 2019-20
Predoctoral Research Funding, Dept. of Anthropology, UIUC, 2019
Nancy Abelman Memorial Scholarship, UIUC, 2018
Lindsay Fellowship, Yale University, 2013
Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Grant, Modern Standard Arabic, Yale University, 2013-14
US Student Fulbright Fellow, Burkina Faso, 2009-10
Awards and Honors
Casagrande Award, Dept. of Anthropology, UIUC, 2019
Emerging Scholar Award Performance Studies Focus Group, Association for Theater in Higher Education, 2014
Josephine Ott Prize, Smith College, 2008
Tryon Prize, Smith College Art Museum, 2007
Additional Campus Affiliations
Department of Dance, Grad Minor
Center for Global Studies, Grad Minor
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Grad Certificate