Elizabeth McPherson, Professor and Director of the Dance Division at Montclair State University, is the editor of The Bennington School of the Dance: A History in Writings and Interviews and author of The Contributions of Martha Hill to American Dance and Dance Education. Executive Editor for the journal Dance Education in Practice,she has written articles for various other publications including Ballet Review, the Journal of Dance Education, and the Journal of Movement Arts Literacy. She holds a BFA from Juilliard, an MA from The City College of NY, and a PhD from New York University.

1. Native American Dance and Engaged Resistance

Robin Prichard

2. An American Take on Ballet

Dawn Lille

3. Black Women Keep the Tempo: The Impact of Black Women on Jazz and Tap Dance in the USA

Alesondra Christmas

4. Gendered Politics and the Female Dancing Body

Julie Kerr-Berry

5. An Exploration of Inspiration, Imitation, and Cultural Appropriation in Dance in the USA

Miriam Giguere

6. Dancing for Social Change in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Hannah Kosstrin

7. Challenging the Distinction between Art and Entertainment: Dance in Musical Theater

Joanna Dee Das

8. Postmodern Dance: Laboratory of Rupture

Emmanuele Phuon

9. On Black Dance and Postmodern Representation from Black Power to Afro-Futurist Performance

Carl Paris

10. From The Serpentine to The Renegade: Milestones in Dance and Media Technology

Jody Sperling