astr awards &fellowships
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ASTR AWARDS &FELLOWSHIPS
November 7, 2015 Portland, OR
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COMMITTEES
• Gibson Cima, Megan Lewis, Jane Duncan
• Christopher Swift, Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, Virginia Anderson
• Chase Bringardner, Elizabeth Son, Faedra Chatard Carpenter
• Eng-Beng Lim, Kate Bredeson, Karen Jean Martinson
• Carol Martin, David Román, Leigh Woods
• Christian DuComb, Dassia Posner, Harvey Young
• Patricia Herrera, Katie Gough, Ramon Rivera-Servera
• Diana Looser, Michael Chemers, Jocelyn Buckner
• Claire Croft, Lezlie Cross, Marla Carlson
• Elaine Aston, Rhona Justice-Malloy, Anne Fletcher
• Robin Bernstein, William Condee, Shannon Steen, Valleri Robinson
• David Mayer, Jill Dolan, David Savran, Heather Nathans
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A.T.A.P. INITIATION PROGRAM GRANT
Artists Repertory Theatre
Sarah Horton, Managing Director
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CO-SPONSORED EVENTS
Michelle Granshaw
University of Pittsburgh
Spectacles of Labor: Performance and the Working
Class
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THOMAS MARSHALL GRADUATE STUDENT
AWARDS
Yasmine Jahanmir UC Santa Barbara
Ioana Jucan Brown University
Tiffany Trent
Arizona State University
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DAVID KELLER
TRAVEL GRANTS
Arnab Banerji Loyola Marymount University
Josy Miller
UC Davis
Lisa Woynarski Royal Central School of
Speech and Drama
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Karen Jean Martinson Chicago State University
for
Making the Dream Real •
GRANTS FOR RESEARCHERS WITH HEAVY TEACHING
LOADS
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HELEN KRICH CHINOY
DISSERTATION AWARDS
Susan Finque, University of Washington “The Callao Contract of 1599: Evidence for a Transformative
Genealogy of American Theatre from Lima, Peru”
Haddy Kreie, UC Santa Barbara “Slavery and the Emergence of Vodun: Race, Trauma,
Protection, and Agency in Spiritual Systems of Southern Benin”
Gwyneth Shanks, UCLA “Performance and the Museum: Material Remains”
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COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
FELLOWSHIPS
Jimmy Noriega (The College of Wooster) & Carlos Chavarría (Contra Costa College)
“Jotoholic (Confessions of a Mexican Outcast): Queer Latina/o Performance as Research”
Michael Shane Boyle (Queen Mary University
of London) & Brandon Woolf (Free University Berlin)
“The Hidden Abode of Counter Logistics”
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRIZE
Naomi Bragin University of Washington, Bothell
“Funky Robots on the Soul Train
Line: Black Power Technology and Anti-Human Movements"
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRIZE
Honorable Mention
Pannill Camp Washington University in St. Louis
“Arts of Brotherhood: French Masonic Ritual and Sentimental Dramaturgy in
Eighteenth-Century France"
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RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP Julia Walker
Washington University in St. Louis “Civil Rites: Performing Social Theory on the Modern
Stage”
E.J. Westlake
University of Michigan “La Conquistadora and Zozobra: Cultural Icons in
Conflict”
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TARGETED RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
Eric Mayer García Louisiana State University
“Documenting the Photographic Archive of Tablas Alarcos Press as a Resource of Cuban Theatre History”
Jennifer Goodlander Indiana University
“Puppet Performance in Cambodia’s Cities: Reconfiguring Tradition after the Khmer Rouge”
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BROOKS MCNAMARA PUBLICATION SUBVENTION
Jessica Berson Yale University
for
The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business
Oxford University Press
(forthcoming December 2015)
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SELMA JEANNE COHEN CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
AWARD
Shamell Bell UCLA
for
“Living is Resisting: Street Dance Activism in the Black Lives
Matter Movement”
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GERALD KAHAN AWARD BEST ESSAY IN THEATRE STUDIES BY A
NEWER SCHOLAR Naomi Bragin
University of Washington, Bothell
“Shot and Captured: Turf Dance, YAK Films, and the Oakland, California,
R.I.P. Project ” TDR: The Drama Review, 58.2 (2014)
Editor: Richard Schechner
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THE OSCAR BROCKETT ESSAY PRIZE
BEST ESSAY IN THEATRE STUDIES Honorable Mention
Marah Gubar Massachusetts Institute of Technology
for
“Entertaining Children of All Ages: Nineteenth-Century Popular Theater as
Children’s Theater American Quarterly 66.1 (2014)
Editor: Sarah Banet-Weiser
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Best Essay in Theatre Studies
OSCAR BROCKETT ESSAY PRIZE
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THE OSCAR BROCKETT ESSAY PRIZE
BEST ESSAY IN THEATRE STUDIES
Ellen MacKay Graduate Center of the City University of
New York For
“Acting Historical with Shakespeare, or, William-Henry Ireland’s Oaken
Chest” Shakespeare Survey, vol. 67 (2014)
Editor: Peter Holland
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ERROL HILL AWARD
OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN THEATRE STUDIES
Honorable Mention
Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Coloring Whiteness: Acts of Critique in Black Performance
University of Michigan Press (2014)
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OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN THEATRE STUDIES
ERROL HILL AWARD
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ERROL HILL AWARD OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP IN
AFRICAN-AMERICAN THEATRE STUDIES
Paige McGinley Washington University in St. Louis
for
Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism
Duke University Press (2014)
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THE BARNARD HEWITT AWARD
Honorable Mention
Gay Gibson Cima Georgetown University
Performing Anti-Slavery: Activist Women on Antebellum Stages
Cambridge University Press (2014)
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THE BARNARD HEWITT AWARD
Honorable Mention
Paige McGinley Washington University in St. Louis Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism Duke University Press (2014)
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Outstanding Book in Theatre Studies
THE BARNARD HEWITT AWARD
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THE BARNARD HEWITT AWARD
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Northeastern University
New World Drama: The Performative Commons in
the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 Duke University Press (2014)
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Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship in Theatre
Studies
DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD
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DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SCHOLARSHIP IN THEATRE STUDIES
Gay Gibson Cima Georgetown University
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AGENDA OF THE FALL 2015 ASTR ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
7 NOVEMBER 2015 1. Call to Order
2. Approval of the Minutes of the Fall 2014 meeting – Heather Nathans • MOTION to approve the minutes of the Fall 2014 Annual Business
Meeting
3. Approval of the Agenda for the Fall 2015 meeting – Heather Nathans • MOTION to approve the agenda for the Fall 2015 Annual Business
Meeting
4. Thanks to 2015 Chairs of the Program Committee, Jean Graham-Jones, James Harding, and Janelle Reinelt and their committee.
5. In memoriam: John Russell Brown, Jim Brandon, Betty Bernhard, Ron Willis
6. Vice President for Conferences Report – Patrick Anderson
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AGENDA OF THE FALL 2015 ASTR ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
7 NOVEMBER 2015 7. Vice President for Publications – Catherine Cole
8. VP for awards – Brandi Wilkins-Catanese 9. Treasurer’s Report – Cindy Bates 10. GSC Report – Kellen Hoxworth 11. TLA Report – Nancy Friedland 12. ATAP –Colleen Reilly 13. ASTR President’s Report – Nathans 14. Welcoming of new Executive Committee members and acknowledgement of outgoing EC members and Officers 15. Incoming president welcome: Daphne Lei 16. Questions and new business
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GRADUATE STUDENT CAUCUS Kellen Hoxworth
President / Rep. to the ASTR Executive Committee
Stanford University
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GSC CABINET: 2015-2016
• President / Representative to the Executive Committee: • Stephanie Vella (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
• Vice-President / Rep. to the Annual Conference Committee: • Yasmine Jahanmir (University of California, Santa
Barbara)
• Vice-President / Rep. to the Committee on Conferences: • Bess Rowen (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
• Secretary / Historian: • Bryan Schmidt (University of Minnesota)
• Rep. to the Committee on New Paradigms in Graduate Education: • Vicki Hoskins (University of Pittsburgh)
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GSC CABINET: 2014-2015 • President / Representative to the Executive Committee:
• Kellen Hoxworth (Stanford University)
• Vice-President / Rep. to the Committee on Conferences: • Michelle Salerno (University of Illinois, Champaign-
Urbana)
• Vice-President / Rep. to the Annual Conference Committee: • Stephanie Vella (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
• Secretary / Historian:
• Sarah Campbell (Indiana University)
• Rep. to the Committee on New Paradigms in Graduate Education:
• Haddy Kreie (University of California, Santa Barbara)
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GSC COMMITTEES: 2014-2015
• Conference Assistance: • Shelby Brewster (University of Pittsburgh) • Lauren Graffin (University of Ulster)
• Mentorship Committee: • Katie Turner (University of California, Irvine) • Guy Zimmerman (University of California, Irvine)
• Peer Mentorship & Networking Committee: • Shamell Bell (University of California, Los Angeles) • Mika Lior (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Web Resources: • Sara Taylor (Indiana University)
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GSC PRESIDENTS (2005-2014)
• 2005-2006: Sheila Moeschen (Northwestern University)
• 2006-2007: Virginia Anderson (Tufts University)
• 2007-2008: Virginia Anderson (Tufts University)
• 2008-2009: Matt Omasta (Arizona State University)
• 2009-2010: Charlotte McIvor (University of California, Berkeley)
• 2010-2011: Kimi Johnson (University of Minnesota)
• 2011-2012: David Calder (Northwestern University)
• 2012-2013: Kellyn Johnson (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• 2013-2014: Michelle Cowin-Mensah (Bowling Green State University)
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GSC CABINET/COMMITTEE MEMBERS (2005-2014)
• Doug O’Keefe
• Jennifer Caldwell
• Eric Colleary
• John Carnwath
• Jay Gipson-King
• Michelle Granshaw
• Oona Kersey
• Sam O’Connell
• Jennifer Goodlander
• Katie Zien
• Isel Rodriguez
• Jenna Kubly
• Angela Marino Segura
• Deleah Waters
• James Lange
• Lindsey Mantoan
• Beliza Torres
• Jeff List
• Kane Anderson
• Sara Armstrong
• Allan Davis
• Debra Caplan
• Jordana Cox
• Eero Laine
• Michael Morris
• Mina Sohaj
• Kati Sweeney
• Amanda Boyle
• Sara Boland-Taylor
• Danielle Rosvally
• Shamell Bell
• Christiana Molldrem Harkulich
• Areum Jeong
• Ira Murfin
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GRADUATE STUDENT PLENARIES: 2001
• Scott Magelssen (University of Minnesota): “Living History Museums and the Construction of the Real through Performance” • Published as “Living History Museums and the Construction of the Real
through Performance,” Theatre Survey 45.1 (2004): 61-74.
• Also published in Living History Museums: Undoing History Through Performance (Scarecrow Press, 2007)
• Maria Papanikolaou (Texas A&M): “‘Woman’ and the Creation of Theatrical Reality: The Rhetoric of Acting Advice” • Published as “How to Act Like a Woman: Professional Advice from English
Actresses,” Modern Drama 46.2 (2015): 207-226.
• Jennifer Stiles (Tufts University): “No Smoke without Fire: Shifting Realities of Cultural Identification and Stereotypes” (co-presented with Heather Nathans)
• Patricia Ybarra (University of Minnesota): “Performing the ‘Real’ Mexico” • Published in Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theater, History, and
Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico (University of Michigan Press. 2009).
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GRADUATE STUDENT PLENARIES: 2002 • Brandi Wilkins Catanese (Stanford University): “The End of Race or the
End of Blackness? August Wilson, Robert Brustein, and Colorblind Casting” • Published in The Problem of the Color[blind]: Racial Transgressions and the
Politics of Black Performance (University of Michigan Press, 2011).
• John Fletcher (University of Minnesota): “Rehearsing Radicality with Cornerstone Theater” • Published as “Identity and Agonism: Tim Miller, Cornerstone, and the Politics of
Community-Based Theatre,” Theatre Topics 13.2 (2003): 189-203.
• Shawn Kairschner (Stanford University): “Physiological Stigmata: Bourgeois Positivism and the Pleasure of ‘Reading’”
• Jisha Menon (Stanford University): “In the Name of the Nation” • Published as “Unhomely Nations: Minorities and Refugees of the
Subcontinental Partition,” Modern Drama 46.2 (2003): 182-206. • Also published in The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the
Memory of Partition (Cambridge UP, 2013)
• Nicholas Ridout (University of London): “Animals and Children in the Theatrical Economy” • Published as “Animal Labour in the Theatrical Economy,” Theatre Research
International 29.1 (2004): 57-65. • Also published in Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
(Cambridge UP, 2006)
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GRADUATE STUDENT PLENARIES: 2003 • Phaedra Bell (Stanford University): “Tourist Trap: The Laterna
Magika’s Ouervre as a Topographical Document of the Czech Nation”
• Dong-Shin Chang (New York University): “Knowing China/Performing China: Two London Productions of the 1910s” • Published as “Proximity and the Demarcation of the Other: Three
‘Chinese’ Productions on the Early-Twentieth-Century London Stage,” in Querying Difference in Theatre History, edited by Scott Magelssen and Ann Huago (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), 71–79.
• Doug O’Keefe (Northwestern University): “Let the gaul’d jade Wince”: Generic Expectation and the Reception of Ballad Opera”
• Korey Rothman (University of Maryland): “Power, Money, and Influence on Broadway: Documenting Across the Gender Divide”
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GRADUATE STUDENT PLENARIES: 2004
• John Fletcher (University of Minnesota): “Tasteless as Hell: Identity, Assimilation, and the Tactics of Counter-Taste in Hell Houses” • Published as “Tasteless as Hell: Community Performance, Distinction, and
Countertaste in Hell House” Theatre Survey 48.2 (2007): 313-330.
• Also published in Preaching to Convert: Evangelical Outreach and Performance Activism in a Secular Age (University of Michigan, 2013)
• Sheila Moeschen (Northwestern University): “Wheelchairs and One-Liners: Exploring the Limits of Taste with Jerry Lewis and the MDA Telethon” • Published in Acts of Conspicuous Compassion: Performance Culture and
American Charity Practices (University of Michigan, 2013)
• Colleen Reilly (University of Pittsburgh): “Setting the Memorative Stage: The Archivist as Auteur Director” • Anticipated her current work with the American Theater Archive Project
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