Past Award Recipients
DSA is proud to acknowledge the many prior award winners from the Society of Dance History Scholars and Dance Studies Association. Below is a list of past recipients dating back to 1995. For a list of recent awardees, please visit the Awards section.
Distinction in Dance Award Recipient Lynn Garafola with Janice Ross at the 2017 DSA Conference. Photo by Jess Cavender.
Year
Recipient
Award Type
Project or Publication
2005
Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research
2005
Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research
2005
Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research
2005
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
2003
Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research
2003
Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research
2003
Outstanding Service to Dance Research
2003
Outstanding Service to Dance Research
2003
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
Project or Publication:
“Embodying Gender Struggle and Social Protest: The Influence of Tanztheater and the Wakening of Feminist Consciousness in Taiwan’s Modern Dance”
2003
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
Project or Publication:
“Choreographing Encounter: Aztec Dance and the Noche Triste”
2001
Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research
2001
Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research
2001
Outstanding Service to Dance Research
2001
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
Project or Publication:
“Mapping the Phenomenon of the Body: The Concept of Body as Experienced and Expressed by Isadora Duncan, Chandralekha, and Anna Halprin”
2001
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
Project or Publication:
“’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
2000
Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research
2000
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
Project or Publication:
“Brownface: A New Performance of Minstrelsy in Competitive Latin American Dance”
1999
Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research
1999
Outstanding Service to Dance Research
1999
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
Project or Publication:
“Mats Eks Giselle: The Familiar Disrupted”
1999
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
Project or Publication:
“The Dancing Body in New Mental Images of Time and Space”
1999
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
Project or Publication:
“Staging the Diaspora: The Concerts of Zora Neale Hurston and Katherine Dunham”
1999
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
Project or Publication:
“Uniform Bodies: Masses Moving and Modern Totalitarian Politics”
1998
Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research
1998
Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research
1998
Outstanding Service to Dance Research
1998
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
1998
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
1997
Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research
1997
Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research
1997
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
1996
Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research
Project or Publication:
“Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance”
1996
Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research
1996
Outstanding Service to Dance Research
1996
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
Project or Publication:
“From the Fringe Back to the Mainstream: Accounting for the Discursive Element in Rudolf Laban’s Language of Movement”
1996
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
Project or Publication:
“Desire and Fear: The American Minstrelsy of Fanny Elssler”
1996
Outstanding Graduate Research Award
Project or Publication:
“Chandralekha: Negotiating the Female Body and Movement in Cultural/Political Signification”
1995
Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research
1995
Outstanding Service to Dance Research
1995
Outstanding Graduate Research Award