Selma Jeanne Cohen Award

• Kristopher Pourzal, "Black Feminist Geography and/as Choreography: Angie Pittman’s 'Came Up in a Lonely Castle' "
• Yao Xu, " 'As if Zhao Feiyan was Incarnated in Zhang Qi'-- Configuring the Modern 'New Woman' in Dance on Hands in Republican Era China"

• Ine Beljaars, “Dancing Across Borders: The Impact of Gendered Migration and Postcolonial Connections on the Dutch Salsa Scene”

• Emily Kaniuka, “’You’re Not One of Us!’: Hardcore Punk’s Digital (Im)mobilities”

• Luna Beller-Tadiar: Queer/Tango/Theory: Gendered Semiosis, Dancing the Binary, and Dance on Out
• Sariel Golomb: 'Channels to the Humane': Dancing the Body of Bare Life in Crystal Pite's Flight Pattern
• Emily A. Hawk: Innovation, Affirmation, Activism: Rod Rodgers Defines Black American Dance

• Alissa Elegant: Dancing Revolutionary Change: China Railway Cultural Work Troupe’s Dance Drama “Wang Gui yu Li XiangXiang”
• Rosalia Lerner: When ‘Get Well Soon’ is Not an Option: Sick-bodied Performance as an Alternative Ontology in Johanna Hedva’s “Sick Witch” 
• Laura Smith: Black Power Naps’ “Choir of the Slain”: The Radical Resistive Potential of the Horizontal Black Dancer

• Zena Bibler: What Can Disorientation Do?” – Disorientation and the Rehearsal of Care in mayfield brooks’ “Improvising While Black”
• Ellen Gerdes: i-Dance Festival: Improvising “One Country, Two Systems” in post-1997 Hong Kong"
• Pratichi Priyambada: “Nautch girls,” “Slaves,” and “Prostitutes”: Dancers in colonial Bombay Presidency

2018

• Natalia Duong, “Agent Orange Ecologies: Choreographing Kinship in Rhizophora”
• Sammy Roth, “Reproducing the Foreclosed White Body: Racial Imaginary and White Womanhood in  Competition Dance”
• Jessica Friedman, ”Josephine Baker’s Decolonial Corporeal Borderland”

2016

• Jennifer Aubrecht, “Rethinking Appropriation: The Reciprocal Relationship of Yoga and American Modern Dance”

2015

• Naomi Bragin, “Global Street Dance and Libidinal Economy”
• Brianna Figueroa, “Economies of The Flesh: Scripting Puerto Rican Colonial History Through Dance”

2014

• Melissa Melpignano, “Dancing Texts: Writing the Presence of the Dancing Bodies in Dance Librettos”
• Anne Vermeyden, “The Reda Folk Dance Company and Egyptian Cultural Nationalism: Writing Dance as History”
• Katja Vaghi, “Deixis on Dance: Locating the Audience’s Experience in Time, Space, and Persona”

2013

• Rachel Carrico, “On the Street and in the Studio: Decentering and Recentering Dance in the New Orleans Second Line”
• Sinibaldo De Rosa, “Samah: Kardeşlik Töreni — A Dynamic Bodily Archive For The Alevi Semah”
• Mique’l Dangeli, “Dancing Our Politics: Contemporary Issues in Northwest Coast First Nations Dance”
• Priya Thomas (honorable mention), “Remote Choreography and the Ghost”
• Kelly Klein, “Ecological Consciousness through Somatic Practice in Community-Based Performance: Palissimo’s ‘Bastard’”
• Suparna Banerjee, “I and digi-I: reading the ‘digital double’ in the contemporary Bharatanatyam choreographies”
• Jingqiu Guan, “The Protesting Arabesque”

2012

• Amanda Graham, “Out of Site, Trisha Brown’s Roof Piece”
• Jessica Ray Herzogenrath, “Building National Character: Urbanization, Americanization and Folk Dance in Chicago, 1890–1940”
• Munjulika Rahman, “Dancing in the (Socialist) City: Bangladesh at the 1979 International Folk in Zagreb”

2011

• Daniel Callahan, “Absolutely Unmanly: The Music Visualizations of Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers”
• Virginia Preston (honorable mention), “Fire in the Soul: Claude de l’Estoile’s ballet de cour, Episodic Composition and the Radical Erotics of Globalization”

2009

• Anusha Kedhar, “The Specter of the Devadasi: Bharata Natyam and Indian Ethnicity in the U.S.”
• Hannah Kosstrin, “Of Dreams and Prayers: Topographies of Anna Sokolow’s Holocaust Work During and After World War II”

2008

• Elizabeth Arden Thomas, "Moving Forward by Being Still: Anna Halprin’s Still Dance with Nature”
• Victoria Phillips Geduld, “Cultural Diplomacy and the Construction of Empire: Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring and the State Department Tour of 1955–1956”
• Victoria Fortuna, “Decelerating Movement: The Identity Politics of Time and Space in Rudy Perez’s Countdown”

2007

• Clare Croft, “Photographs and Dancing Bodies: Alvin Ailey’s 1967 US State Department Sponsored Tour of Africa”
• Samuel Dorf, “’Greek’ Desires in Paris: Isadora Duncan Dances Antiquity in the Lesbian Salon”
• Sydney Hutchinson, "When Women Lead: Changing Gender Roles in the New York Salsa Scene”

2005

• Juliet Bellow, “Picasso’s Puppets: Petrouchka, Pierrot and Parade”
• Öykü Potuoglu-Cook, “From Backstage to Back Streets: An Urban Ethnography of the Post-1980s Turkish Belly Dance”

2004

• Danielle Robinson, “Invisible Men: The Professionalization of Black Dance Teaching in Jazz Age Manhattan”
• Emily Winerock, “Dance References in the Records of Early English Drama: Alternative Sources for Non-Courtly Dancing, 1500–1650”

2003

• Yvonne Hardt, “Relational Movement Patterns: Movement Choirs and their Social Potential in the Weimar Republic”

2002

• Victoria Watts, “How Do Dances Make Us Laugh?: A Comparative Analysis of the Joking Structure at Play in Tere O’Connor’s Hi Everybody! (1999) and Twyla Tharp’s Push Comes to Shove (1976)”

2001

• Jonathan David Jackson, “Gender Representation in the Latest Form of the Black/Latino(a) Sexual Minority Dance Called ‘Voguing’”

2000

• Martin Hargreaves, “Haunted by Failure, Doomed by Success: Melancholic Masculinity in AMP’s Swan Lake”

1999

• Virginia Taylor, “Respect, Antipathy, and Tenderness: Why Do Girls ‘Go to Ballet’?”
• Anthea Kraut, “The Vernacular Transformations of Black Female Choreographers: Josephine Baker, Zora Neale Hurston, and Katherine Dunham”

1998

• Janet O’Shea, "Unbalancing the Authentic/Partnering Tradition: Shobana Jeyasingh’s Romance… with Footnotes”

1997

• Michelle Heffner, “Blood Wedding: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Flamenco”
• Karen A. Mozingo, “Fractured Images: Montage and Gender in Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater”

1996

• Ananya Chatterjea, “The Choreography of Chandralekha”
• Julia L. Foulkes, “Feminists, in a Way: How Women Shaped Modern Dance”
• Barbejoy A. Ponzio, “Mythic Images of the West and the Renewed Popularity of Country Dance”

1995

• Constance Valis Hill, “From Bharata Natyam to Jive: Jack Cole’s ‘Modern’ Jazz Dance”
• Maribeth Clark, “The Contredanse, That Musical Plague”

Additional Selma Jeanne Cohen Awards