Graduate Student Awards

Click each award listing for information on eligibility, nominations and past awardees.

The 2025 Awards Cycle is closed. Information about the 2026 awards cycle will be shared in spring 2026.

Selma Jeanne Cohen Award

This award aims to encourage graduate student members of DSA by recognizing excellence in dance scholarship.

2025 Awardees:

Yujie Chen, “Bodies In Flux: Rock Youth and Chinese Hip-Hop Dance in Early Reform Era China,”
Juliana Devaan, “Made for (Public) TV: Charles Atlas’s Media-Dance”
Bhumi Patel, “Disidentifications of Survival and the Borderland Body in Miguel Gutierrez’s This Bridge Called My Ass”
Amy Schofield, “'We’re the Survival of Every Moment': Vicente Griego’s Indita Flamenca"

Graduate Student Travel Awards

Each year, three grants will be made to graduate students to help defray the costs of attending the annual conference.

2025 Awardees: Weichen Cui, Tiến Nguyễn, and Annette Walker