Nadine George-Graves facts for kids

Nadine George-Graves is a smart professor who studies many interesting things. She looks at how African American studies, gender studies (which is about how boys and girls, men and women are seen in society), and the history of dance and theater all connect. She teaches at Northwestern University and helps lead the Dance Research Journal. She went to Yale University and got her PhD from Northwestern.

Her Work as a Professor

Before teaching at Northwestern, Professor George-Graves worked at other big universities.

• She was a professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. She also helped lead the Theater and Dance department there.
• She was also a professor and led the Dance department at The Ohio State University.

Professor George-Graves has also been a leader in many important groups.

• She was the president of the Congress on Research in Dance. This group helps people study dance.
• She was on the boards of places like the Lincoln Theatre and the American Society for Theatre Research.
• She also helped start a group called the Collegium for African Diasporic Dance (CADD).

Awards and Honors

Nadine George-Graves has received several awards for her important work.

• In 2021, she won the Outstanding Scholarly Research in Dance Award from the Dance Studies Association.
• In 2020, she was a dramaturg (someone who helps with the story and research for a play or dance) for a dance group called Brother(hood) Dance!
• She received the Diversity Equity Inclusion Distinguished Teaching Award in 2016. This award recognizes teachers who help make learning fair and welcoming for everyone.
• In 2014, she got the Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center.

Books and Articles

Professor George-Graves has written many books and articles about African American theater and dance.

Books She Wrote

• The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940 (published in 2003). This book is about the Whitman Sisters, who were famous performers in the early 1900s. ISBN: 0312225628
• Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out (published in 2012). This book looks at a well-known African American dance company. This book also received an honorable mention for the Sally Banes Award in 2012 and 2016 from the American Society for Theatre Research. ISBN: 978-0-299-23554-3

Chapters in Other Books

• "'Just Like Being at the Zoo', Primitivity and Ragtime Dance" (published in 2009). This chapter is part of a book called Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader. It talks about early dance styles like ragtime. ISBN: 025207565X, pages 55–71.