Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Competitive Dance and the Adolescent’s Body: Considering Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Competitive Dancers, Catri E. G. Barba
Dancing With Ghosts: Memory and Melancholy in The Subversive Artist, caley R. vancil
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
One Man Show/ Who Am I, Devin Baker
Mapping Entanglements: Un-Nesting the Myths of My White Identity, Kayla C. Brown
Essence of Esther: Finding and Understanding Power of Voice Through Exploration of the Archive, Ashley C T Cesiro
Unveiling the Wilis: Exploring Giselle's Slavic Folkloric Origins and the Ramifications of Essentialized Femininity, Antonia R. Dougherty
Echoes Before Language: A Written Thesis on Movement, Origin, and Becoming, Shadidja Parker
raíces de esperanza: The Omnipresence of Female Ancestors As Guides Through Nepantla, Fabiola Sanchez Huidobro
Asians on the Horizon: The Then, Now, and Later of Asian Representation in American Dance and Performance, Noelani N. Schraedel
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Pathways Toward Healing: The Presence of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome in Black Mother-Daughter Relationships, Rachael Appold
Rising Moons, Michael Bearden
Hame, Russell Clarke
Practicing Vulnerability: A Black Queer Dance That is Never-Ending Due to the Faults of Our American Society, Paris NGai Gray
Rhythms that {Bind}: Emerging through Dissonance, Tessa Hailu
Good Girl: My Performatives, Living as a Woman and Mother, Laura Elizabeth Halm
Voices of the Highlands: Untold Stories of Memory, Heritage, and Blood, Eiby Lobos
Careful Communication: A Confrontation of Cartesian Mind/Body Dualism and Western Perceptions of Intelligence in the Dance Classroom, Sarah Lunceford
Holy Body/Monstrous Body: The Life and Practices of Saint Catherine of Siena., Melissa B. Miller
Dancing Between Worlds: Afrofuturism, Hybridity, Transculturalism, and the Orixás, Alicia Nascimento Castro
\The ‘I’ in Invisible\, Edgar L. Page
The Grind Was All I was Given, Daniel Rodriguez
Here and There a Latinx Experience, Angelica Salazar
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Creating Space, Jacqueline Bennett
#IYKYK: TikTok as a Subversive Space: Democratizing Dance and Shifting Artistic Paradigms, Meagan Dodini
Fracturing Trauma, Antonio Doutiht
Needs Salt, Joshua Lang
No Offense!: A Critical and Creative Inquiry, Mo Liu
EROSION: landscape reveals us, John Alexander McBride
Dancing Through Loss, Tracy Vogt
Queering Empathy, Robert Wesner
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Breaking Barriers: Creating Inclusive Dance Spaces for High School Students With Cerebral Palsy, Samantha Michelle Barnewolt
BeginnINgs, Elizabeth Becker
A Mexican American’s Introspective on Identity and Embodiment of the Lester Horton Technique, Fernando Carrillo
Our Sheep To Slaughter, Courtney Collado
Whispers on the Waves of the Weaponized, Shawn Evangelista
Disembodying Toxicity: The Use and Abuse of Young Bodies in Competition Dance, Kelley Holt
speak easy: a virtual mixtape of black cool, Demetia Hopkins
The Means to Escape, Devonn McKenna
Intra Sections: Social Media and the Multiplicity of Identity, Jared Redick
Black is Gold: Cultivating an Antiracist Dance Pedagogy in Higher Education, Jamorris Rivers
Tapping In: A Movement Meditation for Wellness, Victoria Rodriguez
Healing Through Mother Earth, Taylor A. Russell
Traces: Embodied Ephemera From Here To There, Alice Svetic
Honor Thyself, Alonzo O. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Dancing with Digital Technology: Shifting Place in Space, Thang Dao
Steps Last: A Pedagogy for Existing in the Vanishing Point, Cihtli Ocampo
Mezcla, Liz Quinones