Nadine George-Graves

Nadine George-Graves is an academic who works at the intersection of African American studies, gender studies, and dance and theater history. She holds the Naomi Willie Pollard Endowed Chair at Northwestern University with appointments in the Department of Performance Studies and Department of Theatre . She is also the executive co-editor of Dance Research Journal. She has a PhD in Theater and Drama from Northwestern University, and a BA in Philosophy and Theater Studies from Yale University.

Career George-Graves formerly served as a professor of Theater and Dance, vice chair of the Department of Theater and Dance, and Acting Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at the University of California, San Diego. She was also the previous chair of the Department of Dance and a professor of theatre at The Ohio State University.

George-Graves is also the past president of the Congress on Research in Dance. She also served on the executive boards of the Lincoln Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, American Society for Theater Research, the Society of Dance History Scholars, the editorial boards of SDHS and Choreographic Practices, and is a founding member of the Collegium for African Diasporic Dance (CADD).

Creative projects Her creative projects include Architectura, a dance theater piece inspired by architecture, about how we build our lives, Suzan-Lori Parks' Fucking A, and Topdog/Underdog. In 2016 she received the Diversity Equity Inclusion Distinguished Teaching Award; in 2014 she received the Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center.

Works She is the author of a number of books and articles on African American theater and dance. Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out, 2012, ; 2012 Sally Banes Award honorable mention of the American Society for Theatre Research (edited) 2016 Sally Banes Award honorable mention of the American Society for Theatre Research Chapters "'Just Like Being at the Zoo', Primitivity and Ragtime Dance", in: Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader, 2009, , pp. 55–71