Faculty

2012-13

Awards, Grants, Fellowships
Anthea Kraut American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
Wendy Rogers Academic Senate Committee on Research Fellowship, UC Riverside
Priya Srinivasan Emory Elliott Book Award, from Center for Ideas and Society, UC Riverside, for Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor
 
Positions Held
Jens Richard Giersdorf Editorial Board Member, Congress on Research in Dance
Jens Richard Giersdorf Editorial Board Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Anthea Kraut Editorial Board Member, Congress on Research in Dance
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Editorial Board Member, Congress on Research in Dance
Marta Savigliano President, Congress on Research in Dance
Linda J. Tomko Traveling Jampot Award committee, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
 

2011-12

Anthea Kraut Academic Senate Committee on Research Fellowship, UC Riverside
Jacqueline Shea Murphy C.A.R.L. Residency, “Indigenous Choreography,” Culver Center for the Arts
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Chancellor’s Strategic Investment Fund Initiative Grant, UC Riverside
Marta Savigliano Resident Fellow, Interweaving Performance Cultures, International Research Center, Freie Universität Berlin
Marta Savigliano IAS Award for Research & Creative Projects, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Minnesota
Marta Savigliano Inaugural Lecturer at Colloque International Tango, Globalmus/École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
   
Jens Richard Giersdorf  Editorial Board Member, Congress on Research in Dance
Jens Richard Giersdorf Editorial Board Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Anthea Kraut Editorial Board Member, Congress on Research in Dance
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Editorial Board Member, Congress on Research in Dance
Marta Savigliano President, Congress on Research in Dance
 

2010-11

Jens Richard Giersdorf National Endowment for the Arts, American Masterpiece Grant, Project Director
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Professeur Invitée, Université de Nice, Section Danse, Nice France (April)
Wendy Rogers C.A.R.L. Residency, “TRANSiTORY,” Culver Center for the Arts, in collaboration with Zubin Mohamad
   
Jens Richard Giersdorf Board of Directors Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Anthea Kraut Chair, Gertrude Lippincott Award Committee, Society of Dance History Scholars
Marta Savigliano President, Congress on Research in Dance
 

2009-10

Jacqueline Shea Murphy Academic Senate Committee on Research Fellowship, UC Riverside
Wendy Rogers University of California Pacific Rim Research Program Grant
Wendy Rogers Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, choreographer in residence at ASWARA (National Academy of Performing Arts)
Priya Srinivasan Mellon Research Group Fellow, UC Riverside
Linda J. Tomko American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
   
Jens Richard Giersdorf Board of Directors Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Jens Richard Giersdorf Chair, Graduate Student Travel Grant Committee, Society of Dance History Scholars
Jens Richard Giersdorf Member, Conference Committee, Annual conference, Society of Dance History Scholars
Anthea Kraut Board of Directors Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Anthea Kraut Member, Program Committee, Society of Dance History Scholars Annual conference, 2009
Anthea Kraut Co-Chair, Program Committee, Joint Conference of American Society for Theatre Research and Congress on Research in Dance, 2010
Marta Savigliano President, Congress on Research in Dance
 

2008-09

Jens Richard Giersdorf  Creative Research Award, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Co-Principle Investigator
Jens Richard Giersdort Sokol Grant, Marymount Manhattan College
Anthea Kraut Special Citation, de la Torre Bueno Prize® for distinguished book of dance scholarship, Society of Dance History Scholars, for Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston.
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Award, New Zealand
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Honorary Research Fellow (Maori Studies), University of Auckland, New Zealand (January-June)
Priya Srinivasan Mellon Research Group Fellow, UC Riverside
   
Jens Richard Giersdorf Board of Directors Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Anthea Kraut Board of Directors Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Anthea Kraut Member, Program Committee, Society of Dance History Scholars Annual conference, 2009
Anthea Kraut Co-Chair, Program Committee, Joint Conference of American Society for Theatre Research and Congress on Research in Dance
 

2007-08

Anthea Kraut Resident Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, UC Riverside, Spring
Priya Srinivasan Gertrude Lippincott Award for best English-language article published in Dance Studies, Society of Dance History Scholars, for “The Bodies Beneath the Smoke or What’s Behind the Cigarette Poster?”
Priya Srinivasan Mellon Research Group Fellow, UC Riverside
   
Jens Richard Giersdorf Board of Directors Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Jens Richard Giersdorf Member, Conference Committee, Annual conference, Society of Dance History Scholars
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Board of Directors Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
 

2006-07

Jens Richard Giersdorf Jacobs Pillow, Scholar in Residence Award
Anthea Kraut Gertrude Lippincott Award for best English-language article published in Dance Studies, Society of Dance History Scholars, for “Recovering Hurston, Reconsidering the Choreographer”
Anthea Kraut Regents Faculty Fellowship, UC Riverside
Jacqueline Shea Murphy De la Torre Bueno Prize® for Best Book in the Field of dance studies, Society of Dance History Scholars, for The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories
Priya Srinivasan Regents Faculty Fellowship, UC Riverside
Priya Srinivasan Mellon Research Group Fellow, UC Riverside
   
Jens Richard Giersdorf Board of Directors Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Jens Richard Giersdorf Member, Conference Committee, Annual conference, Society of Dance History Scholars
Jens Richard Giersdorf Juror, de la Torre Bueno Prize® in Dance Studies book competition, Society of Dance History Scholars
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Member, Program Committee, Annual conference, Society of Dance History Scholars
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Board of Directors Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Marta Savigliano Juror, Gertrude Lippincott Award competition, Society of Dance History Scholars
 

2005-06

Jens Richard Giersdorf University of Surrey Incentive Funding award
Anthea Kraut University of California President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Regents Faculty Fellowship, UC Riverside
Wendy Rogers University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Grant
Wendy Rogers Irvine Dance in California—Creation to Performance Grant, James Irvine Foundation
Wendy Rogers UC MEXUS Grant, UC Riverside
Priya Srinivasan Distinguished Faculty Award, Asian American Pacific Student Programs, UC Riverside
   
Jens Richard Giersdorf Board of Directors Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Anthea Kraut Member, Gertrude Lippincott Award Committee, Society of Dance History Scholars, 2006
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Chair, Program Committee, Annual conference, Society of Dance History Scholars
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Board of Directors Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Marta Savigliano Juror, de la Torre Bueno Prize® in Dance Studies book competition, Society of Dance History Scholars
 

2004-05

Jens Richard Giersdorf Art and Humanities Research Board, AHRB, U.K., Small Grant
Priya Srinivasan Resident Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, UC Riverside
   
Anthea Kraut Member, Program Committee, American Society for Theatre Research Conference, 2005
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Board of Directors Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Marta Savigliano Member, Policy Board, University of California’s Institute for Research in the Arts
 

2003-04

Jens Richard Giersdorf Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Senior Academic Research Grant, Re-invitation Scheme
Jens Richard Giersdorf British Academy Overseas Conference Grant
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Ford Foundation Grant, for Red Rhythms: Contemporary Methodologies in American Indian Dance showcase and conference, Co-Principal Investigator with Michelle Hermann Raheja
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Regents Faculty Fellowship, UC Riverside
Wendy Rogers Danspace Project Commission, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Wendy Rogers Irvine Phase II Grant, James Irvine Foundation
   
Anthea Kraut Member, Gertrude Lippincott Award Committee, Society of Dance History Scholars, 2004
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Board of Directors Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Marta Savigliano Member, Policy Board, University of California’s Institute for Research in the Arts
 

2002-03

Jens Richard Giersdorf British Academy Overseas Conference Grant
Anthea Kraut Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, University of California Humanities Research Institute
Jacqueline Shea Murphy University of California President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities
Wendy Rogers National College Choreography Initiative Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
   
Anthea Kraut Member, Gertrude Lippincott Award Committee, Society of Dance History Scholars, 2004
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Board of Directors Member, Society of Dance History Scholars
Marta Savigliano

Member, Policy Board, University of California’s Institute for Research in the Arts

 

2001-02

Jens Richard Giersdorf Djerassi Foundation, Artists Residency Fellowship
Anthea Kraut Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
Jacqueline Shea Murphy Regents Faculty Fellowship, UC Riverside
   
Marta Savigliano Member, Policy Board, University of California’s Institute for Research in the Arts
Linda J. Tomko Past President, Society of Dance History Scholars
 

2000-01

Wendy Rogers Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Fellowship
Linda J. Tomko Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, UC Riverside, Spring
   
Linda J. Tomko President, Society of Dance History Scholars
 

1999-2000

Jacqueline Shea Murphy Regents Faculty Fellowship, UC Riverside
Jacqueline Shea Murphy W.M. Keck Foundation and Mayers Fellow, Huntington Library
   
Linda J. Tomko President, Society of Dance History Scholars