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Leadership

Below are chronological lists of leadership positions held.

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  • Chair, Northwestern Department of Performance Studies, 2021 - 2024

  • Executive Co-Editor, Dance Research Journal, 2021 - present

  • Chair, OSU Dept. of Dance, 2020 - 2021

  • Interim Chair, UCSD Dept. of Theater and Dance, 2016

  • President, Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), 2012 - 2016

  • Founding Executive Board Member, The Collegium For African Diaspora Dance (CADD), 2012 - 2022

  • Acting Associate Dean, University of California, San Diego, 2010

  • Vice Chair, UCSD Dept. of Theater and Dance, 2006 - 2007​​

LEADERSHIP TRAINING 

Below are chronological lists of leadership training and professional development

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  • WULA Drum and Dance training, (Rock Hill NY, Queens NY and Guinea, West Africa), (100+ hours) 2024 - ongoing

  • Fellow: Big Ten Academic Alliance (Academic Leadership Program), (70 hours)  - 2023 - 2024

  • Gold Comedy Writing, Pilot Writing, Pitch Development, Writer’s Room, (50+ hours) 2024-ongoing Faculty Leaders Series, (4 hours), 2024

  • Harvard Management Development Program (50 hours) Summer 2023

  • DEI Faculty Training (5.5 hours) 2022

  • Provost Essential Skills for Leading Departments (6 hours) 2022-2024

  • SOC First-year Chair Mentoring Program, NU, (15 hours) 2021-2022

  • The Next 250 DEI training (10 hours) NU, 2021

  • The President and Provost’s Leadership Institute (50 hours) OSU, 2019-2020

GRANTS 

Below are chronological lists of grants

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  • Mellon Sawyer Seminar “On Decolonizing Theatre.” (Ivy Wilson and Tracy C. Davis, co-PIs), Participant, 2022-2024

  • Arts and Creative Expression theme for the RAISE Initiative (OSU) $8 Million. (declined)

  • Global Arts and Humanities Racial Justice and Community Engagement Grant for “Anti-Racism and Social Justice Education in the Performing Arts.” $84,000.

  • Seed Fund for Racial Justice (SFRJ) (OSU) for “Developing anti-racism praxis in the performing arts through a university certificate program that trains artists, educators, and community leaders to dismantle racial inequities in the field.” 
    PI with Dancers in Graduate School (OSU student organization); Dale Tucker, Yolanda Briggs, and Dr. Lyndsey Vader/Patriot Preparatory Academy $50,000

  • Global Arts and Humanities Graduate Administrative Assistantship (GAA) support for “Anti-Racism in the Arts.” $5000.

  • Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Grant for “Muted, Isolated, and Displaced by Social Distancing: Reinventing Collaboration in Performance Ensembles,” co-PI with Dr. Eugenia Costa-Giomi, 2020-2021. $25,000.

  • Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Grant for “Dance in the Time of Covid” for partnership with the University of Cape Town. Co-PI with Dr. Nyama McCarthy Brown, 2020-2021. $7000.

  • Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Grant for “Archiving Black Performance,” co-PI with Dr. Valarie Williams, Professor Crystal Michelle Perkins, Dr. Adeleke Adeeko, and Executive Director Lawrence Williamson, 
    2021. $100,000.

  • Bridges: Building a Digital Humanities Ecosystem at Ohio State: GAHDT Open Grants Competition (co-investigator, applied for), Canceled due to Covid

  • UCSD Research Grants, 2003-2018

  • UC Multi-Campus Research Groups in the Humanities 2013-14 Award for "Experimental Black Aesthetics" (Participant)

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