Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

• Provost’s Fund, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, 2004 and 2006.
• UW-System Fellow, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Academic Year 2005-6.
• Committee on Research and Creative Activity Award, University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Years received: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007.
• Faculty and Academic Staff Professional Opportunities Fund, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, 2005
• University Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall Semester 1999.
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Short Term Grant, June-November 1998.
• University of Wisconsin-University of Bonn Award, Academic Year 1997-8.

“Engendering Abstraction: Wassily Kandinsky, Gret Palucca, and ‘Dance Curves,’” Modernism/Modernity 14:3 (September 2007), 389-406.

“There’s Something About Mary Wigman: The Woman Dancer as Subject in German Expressionist Art,” Gender and History, Special Issue “Visual Genders,” 17:3 (November 2005), 1-34.

“There’s Something About Mary Wigman: The Woman Dancer as Subject in German Expressionist Art,” essay republished as book chapter in Patricia Hayes, ed., Visual Genders, Visual Histories (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006), 348-341.

“A Man’s Place in a Woman’s World: Otto Dix, Social Dancing, and Constructions of Masculinity in Weimar Germany,” Women in German Yearbook, Volume 21 (2005), 163-91.

Book review of Rainer Noltenius, ed., Bertolt Brecht und Hans Tombrock. Eine Künstlerfreundschaft im skandinavischen Exil, in Brecht Yearbook 30 (Summer 2005), 431-33.

“Anita Berber: Imaging a Weimar Performance Artist,” Woman’s Art Journal 26:1 (Spring/Summer 2005), 26-31.

“Fashionable Dancing: Gender, the Charleston, and German Identity in Otto Dix’s Metropolis,” German Studies Review 29:1(February 2005), 21-44.

“Reconfiguring the Kickline: Urban Weimar Women’s Dance Roles in Hannah Höch’s Anti-Revue,” in Society of Dance History Scholars Conference Proceedings (Stoughton, WI: The Printing House, and the Society of Dance History Scholars, 2002), 40-44.

Book Review of Claudia Jeschke with Cary Rick, Tanz als BewegungsText: Analysen zum Verhältnis von Tanztheater und Gesellschaftstanz (1910-1965), in Dance Chronicle 25, no. 1 (2002), 163-66.

Selected Conferences and Workshops

“Revues, Women’s Culture, and Pandora’s Box,” German Studies Association Conference, San Diego, October 2007.

Roundtable Participant, “Slam Dancing with the Boundaries of Theory and Practice: The Arrival of Popular Dance,” Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, Paris, June 2007.

“Dance Curves: Wassily Kandinsky, Abstraction, and Androgyny,” and Panel Co-Organizer, “The Avant-Garde Body,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Tulsa, October 2006.

“Picturing Palucca: Abstraction, Mass Culture, and the Dancing New Woman at the Bauhaus,” Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, Banff, Canada, June 2006.

“The Bauhaus Parties: Where Popular Culture and Modernism Mingled,” German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, October 2005.

“Defining Jazz: Josephine Baker, Celebrity, and Typology in Weimar German Visual Culture,” Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, Evanston, June 2005.

“Jazz Receptions: Conflicting Depictions of Josephine Baker in Weimar German Visual Culture,” and Moderator, German Pop Music Panel. Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference, San Diego, March 2005.

“’Ultramodern and Ultraprimitive?’ Representations of Josephine Baker in Weimar German Visual Culture” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 2004. 

“‘Passing’ While Dancing: Otto Dix’s Self-Inventions of the 1920s” College Art Association, New York City, February 2003.

“Reconfiguring the Kickline: Urban Weimar Women’s Dance Roles in Hannah Höch’s Anti-Revue” Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, Philadelphia, June 2002.

“Modern Painting Meets Performing Bodies: Otto Dix’s Foray into Mass Culture” Midwest Art History Society Conference, Milwaukee, April 2002.

Panelist, “25 Years of Feminism, Activism, and the Arts” 25th Annual University of Wisconsin-System Women’s Studies Conference, Madison, October 2000.

“Otto Dix’s Metropolis Triptych: A Serious Look at Popular Social Dancing” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Minneapolis, November 1999.