Leadership & Management

A volunteer Board of Directors operates DSA, along with an Executive Director, two Administrative Fellows, and a small team of contractors. Board members contribute to the overall running of the organization through their work on committees and their participation in organizational initiatives as needed. 

READ DSA BY-LAWS HERE (updated 4.1.2021)

ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

2021 Conference, Rutgers University (photo by Elyse Mertz) L to R: Lizzie Leopold (Executive Director), Peter Dickinson (2022 Conference Local Arrangements Chair), Melissa Blanco Borelli (President), Jacqueline Shea Murphy (VP Conferences), Rosemarie Roberts (President-Elect)

Board of Directors

• Rosemarie Roberts, President Elect, Connecticut College
• Melissa Blanco Borelli , Immediate Past President, Northwestern University
• Pallavi Sriram, Secretary , Colorado College
• Elliot Gordon Mercer, Treasurer, University of Chicago
• Rosemary Candelario, VP Publications and Research, Texas Woman's University
• Cristina Fernandes Rosa, VP Conferences, Federal University of Bahia (Brazil)
• Angela Ahlgren, VP Awards, Bowling Green State, University
• Takiyah Nur Amin, VP Professional Development, Virginia Tech
• Sarah Wilbur, Director, Duke University
• Meiver De la Cruz, Director, Whitman College
• Emily Wilcox, Director, William and Mary
• Fangfei Miao, Director, University of Michigan
• Juan Manuel Aldape Munoz, Director, Cornell University
• Alessandra Williams, Director, Rutgers University
• Christine Greiner, Director, Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
• José Reynoso, Director, University of California Riverside
• Sariel Golomb, Graduate Student Representative , Stanford University
• MiRi Park, Graduate Student Representative, UCLA

Standing Committee on Awards

• Angela Ahlgren, Chair/VP Awards, Bowling Green State University
• Arabella Stanger, University of Sussex
• Colleen Dunagan, California State University, Long Beach
• Ana Paula Hofling, UNC, Greensboro
• Menghang Wu, The Ohio State University 
• Fangfei Miao, University of Michigan
• Tia-Monique Uzor, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama

Standing Committee on Conferences

• Cristina Fernandes Rosa, Chair/VP Conferences, Federal University of Bahia (Brazil)
• José Reynoso, Board member, University of California Riverside
• Victoria Fortuna, Board member, Reed College
• Elliot Gordon Mercer, Treasurer, University of Chicago
• Adanna Jones, Conference Co-Chair, 2021, Bowdoin College
• Hari Krishnan, Conference Co-Chair 2022, Wesleyan University
• Emily Wilcox, Board member, William and Mary

Standing Committee on Finance and Development

• Elliot Gordon Mercer, Chair/Treasurer, University of Chicago
• Sarah Wilbur, Board member, Duke University
• Rosemarie Roberts, DSA President, Connecticut College
• Melissa Blanco Borelli, DSA Immediate Past President, Northwestern University 
• Juan Manuel Aldape Munoz, Director, Cornell University
• Jennie Scholick, San Francisco Ballet
• Xan Burley, University of Florida

Standing Committee on Professional Development

• Takiyah Nur Amin, Chair/VP Professional Development, Virginia Tech
• VK Preston, Concordia University
• Crystal U. Davis, University of Maryland
• Charmian Wells, Sarah Lawrence College

Standing Committee on Publications and Research

• Rosemary Candelario, VP Publications and Research, Texas Woman's University
• Christine Greiner, Board Member, Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
• Rebekah Kowal, Co-Editor, DRJ, University of Iowa
• Nadine George-Graves, Co-Editor, DRJ, Ohio State University
• Rachel Carrico, Editor, Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies, University of Florida
• Clare Croft, Editor, Studies in Dance book series, University of Michigan
• SanSan Kwan, Associate Editor, Studies in Dance Book Series, University of California, Berkeley

Standing Committee on Website

• Pallavi Sriram, Chair, Secretary, Colorado College
• MiRi Park, Board Member, UCLA

Nominations Committee

• Sarah Wilbur, Co-Chair, Duke University
• José Reynoso, Co-Chair, University of California, Riverside
• Eugenia Cadus, University of Buenos Aires
• J. Lorenzo Perillo, University of Hawaii
• Celena Monteiro, Kingston University London

Dance Research Journal Advisory Board

• Eric Mullis, Queens University of Charlotte
• Andrea Harris, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Hye-Won Hwang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Ariel Osterweis, California Institute of the Arts
• Funmi Adewole Elliot, De Montfort University
• Dotun Ayobade, Northwestern University
• Mythili Anoop, Independent Scholar
• Megan Nicely, University of San Francisco

Dance Research Journal Editorial Board

• Rebekah Kowal, Executive Co-Editor, University of Iowa
• Nadine George Graves, Executive Co-Editor, Northwestern University
• Victoria Fortuna, DRJ Reviews Co-Editor, Reed College
• Camelia Lenart, DRJ Reviews Co-Editor, SUNY Albany
• Lester Tomé, Smith College
• Yvonne Hardt, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologen
• Gerald Siegmund, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
• Serouj Aprahamian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Adesola Akinleye, Texas Woman's University
• Helen Thomas, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
• Hari Krishnan, Wesleyan University
• Nan Ma, Dickinson College
• Ana Paula Hofling, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Studies in Dance Editorial Board

• Clare Croft, Editor and Chair , University of Michigan
• SanSan Kwan, Associate Editor, University of California, Berkeley
• Aimee Meredith Cox, Yale University
• Einav Katan-Schmid, Kibbutzim College of Education Technology and the Arts 
• Eike Wittrock , University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz
• Ojeya Cruz Banks, Denison University
• Cindy Garcia, University of Minnesota

Conversations Editorial Board

• Rachel Carrico, Editor and Chair, University of Florida
• Susanne Foellmer, Coventry University
• Premalatha Thiagarajan, University of Malaya
• Eugenia Cadus, Universidad Nacional de las Artes
• Arushi Singh
• Layla Zami, Pratt Institute & FU Berlin