Officers. Current officers of the Society of Dance History Scholars are:

• Thomas F. DeFrantz (Duke University), president
• Andrea Harris (University of Wisconsin), recording secretary
• Jill Nunes Jensen (Loyola Marymount University), corresponding secretary
• Susan Lynn Wiesner (University of North Carolina-Greensboro), treasurer

Board of Directors. In addition to the officers of the society, members of the board of directors are:

• Ann Cooper Albright (Oberlin College)
• Melissa Blanco Borelli (University of Surrey)
• Susan Cook (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Lisa Doolittle (University of Lethbridge)
• Colleen Dunagan (California State University-Long Beach)
• Lena Hammergren (Stockholm University)
• Gabriele Klein (University of Hamburg)
• Rebekah J. Kowal (University of Iowa)
• Diyah Larasati (University of Minnesota)
• Yatin Lin (Taipei National University of the Arts)
• Vida Midgelow (University College Northampton)
• Raquel Monroe (Columbia College Chicago)
• Ken Pierce (Longy School of Music)
• Virginia Preston (Stanford University)
• Patricia W. Rader (New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
• Paul Scolieri (Barnard College, Columbia University)
• Constance Valis Hill (Hampshire College)

The Graduate Student Representative is Virginia Preston. The SDHS archivist is Patricia W. Rader.

Editorial Board. The SDHS editorial board, which governs the publishing program of the society, is chaired by Ann Cooper Albright (Oberlin College). Current members of the board include:

• Ann Cooper Albright (Oberlin College), Editorial Board Chair
• Darcey Callison (York University)
• Sarah Davies Cordova (University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee)
• Sherrill Dodds (University of Surrey)
• Norma Sue Fisher-Stitt (York University)
• Ellen Graff (New School University)
• Vida Midgelow (University College Northampton)
• Gay Morris (independent dance scholar)
• Rebecca Rosen (University of Texas — Austin)
• Yutian Wong (San Francisco State University)

Vida Midgelow (University College Northampton) serves as editor of Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies. The president, corresponding secretary, and the treasurer of SDHS are ex officio members of the editorial board.

Committees. Current standing committees of the society are titled: Academic Affairs, Nominations and Governance, Fiscal Management, and Membership and Communications. Ad hoc committees are formed to plan programs for annual conferences, to judge submissions for annual awards, and to perform various tasks in the interests of SDHS.

Working Group Chairs. Susan Lynn Wiesner is chair of the Dance and Technology Working Group; Tricia Henry Young (Florida State University) is chair of the Dance History Teachers Working Group; Jane Peck (independent artist-scholar) is chair of the Early Dance Working Group; Joan L. Erdman (Columbia College Chicago) is chair of the Ethnicity and Dance Working Group; Stephanie Schroedter (Universität Bayreuth) and Sarah Davies Cordova (University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee) are co-chairs of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nineteenth Century Dance Working Group; Clare Parfitt-Brown (University of Chichester) is Chair of the Popular, Social and Vernacular Dance Working Group; Vida Midgelow (University College Northampton) is chair of the Practice-as-Research Working Group; and Virginia Preston (Stanford University) is chair of the Students in SDHS Working Group.

Website. Ken Pierce serves as Website Content Editor.

Studies in Dance History SDHS’s monograph series, published by University of Wisconsin Press, answers a growing demand for works that provide fresh analytical perspectives on dancing, dancers, and dances in a global context. Read more...