Sheila Jackson Abrams
20th century British sociologist
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Kate Mulchrone
20th century Celticist
Máirín Ní Mhuiríosa
20th century Irish scholar, poet and journalist
Jeanne Sheehy
20th century Irish art historian
Calíope Martínez
Mexican historian, academic, and cultural manager
Dr Helena Beristain
Helena Beristáin Díaz was a Mexican researcher and academic.
Jennifer Homans
Jennifer Homans published Apollo’s Angels in 2010, a history of classical ballet that she had been working on for ten years. It is an epic work, tracing four centuries and spanning different countries, setting the evolution of the form in the many political, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts that shaped it.
Theresa Ruth Howard
Founder of “Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet” (MoBBallet), which “preserves, presents, and promotes the contributions and stories of Black artists in the field of Ballet, illustrating that they are an integral part of dance history at large,” in 2015.
Melanie George
American dance educator, choreographer, dramaturg, and scholar, and an activist working to deconstruct the hierarchies of dance.
Gesel Mason
After more than a decade of collaborating with African American choreographers on solo pieces created for her as a dancer, Gesel Mason turned that body of work into a digital archive, “No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers”