Dr. Ariel Nereson Receives Research Fellowship and Publication Prize

Congratulations to Associate Professor Ariel Nereson, PhD, on being awarded a Research Fellowship from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) to help underwrite research expenses of scholars undertaking projects significant to the field of theatre and/or performance studies.

Nereson's project Reparative Encounters: Universities, the Arts, and the Afterlives of Dispossession brings to light an often-overlooked area of research--university funding for artistic projects. Nereson's project is a robust cross-racial study of how performance paradoxically solidifies and subverts power asymmetry both through pedagogy and its own support of artistic production.  

Recently Nereson also received the Sally Banes Publication Prize honoring the publication (book or essay) which best explores the intersections of theatre and dance/movement in the previous two calendar years.

Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past (2022) raises the bar of dance studies research, elevating the political and public importance of the field by expertly and complexly demonstrating how dance is an integral part of US history. The book excels at a multifaceted ethically engaged form of analysis of one of the most important choreographers in American Dance and Theatre History, breathing life into the largely unexplored archive of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. Nereson’s rich interweaving of the complex agendas at stake and at play in the work of Bill T. Jones brings an important new context and appreciation to his intellectual and artistic contribution to American life.

The book is currently 40% OFF with FREE U.S. shipping when using the discount code UMASTR24. This offer ends 12/17/24. https://www.press.umich.edu/12084466/democracy_moving