Emily Hawk
Biographic Data
| ID | 1260869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Hawk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Hawk |
| SIGNATURE | HAWK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5641-9001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dance History Across Departments
This article contends that dance scholars must embrace the field’s inherent interdisciplinarity by teaching dance history beyond the context of traditional Dance departments, making dance more accessible to students regardless of field of study or prior experience. Drawing on the author’s experience teaching dance history in History and African American Studies, the article explores strategies for welcoming new students to the field across depart…
Civic Education and Artistic Innovation on New York City’s Dancemobile, 1967-1988
The Dancemobile—an initiative of the Harlem Cultural Council and New York City (NYC) Department of Cultural Affairs—was a flatbed truck that brought free dance concerts to over one million New Yorkers, in all five boroughs, between 1966 and 1988. The program had an artistic aim to showcase the work of Black choreographers within communities of color, and thus became a vital forum for defining “Black dance” within the broader Black Arts Movement. …
Sport Becoming an Art
Throughout the twentieth century, dance instructors at historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, championed an innovative and holistic pedagogy, recognizing dance’s history as a vehicle for celebration, resistance, and self-expression in African American life. Often assigned to physical education departments, these instructors imagined dance as a “sport becoming an art,” with the capacity to stimulate students’ bodies and minds in t…
Winner of the William M. Jones Award at the 2021 Popular Culture Association Conference
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Winner of the William M. Jones Award at the 2021 Popular Culture Association Conference
Dance History Across Departments
This article contends that dance scholars must embrace the field’s inherent interdisciplinarity by teaching dance history beyond the context of traditional Dance departments, making dance more accessible to students regardless of field of study or prior experience. Drawing on the author’s experience teaching dance history in History and African American Studies, the article explores strategies for welcoming new students to the field across depart…
Civic Education and Artistic Innovation on New York City’s Dancemobile, 1967-1988
The Dancemobile—an initiative of the Harlem Cultural Council and New York City (NYC) Department of Cultural Affairs—was a flatbed truck that brought free dance concerts to over one million New Yorkers, in all five boroughs, between 1966 and 1988. The program had an artistic aim to showcase the work of Black choreographers within communities of color, and thus became a vital forum for defining “Black dance” within the broader Black Arts Movement. …
Sport Becoming an Art
Throughout the twentieth century, dance instructors at historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, championed an innovative and holistic pedagogy, recognizing dance’s history as a vehicle for celebration, resistance, and self-expression in African American life. Often assigned to physical education departments, these instructors imagined dance as a “sport becoming an art,” with the capacity to stimulate students’ bodies and minds in t…
Dance (4 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (2 works)