Emily Hawk, Ph.D.
20th Century U.S. Cultural Historian
Visiting Assistant Professor, Dickinson College
hawke@dickinson.edu
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Honorable Mention, 2025 Ribuffo Dissertation Prize—praised for “discerning and distinctive contribution to U.S. intellectual and cultural history.”
Publications
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“‘Sport Becoming an Art’: Curricular Dance, Cultural Pride, and Community Engagement at HBCUs.” Journal of African American History (forthcoming Summer 2025).
“Dance Across Departments: Interdisciplinarity and Expanded Access to the Field.” Dance Chronicle special issue “Rethinking Dance History Pedagogies” (forthcoming Oct 2025).
“Civic Education and Artistic Innovation on New York City’s Dancemobile, 1967–1988.” Journal of Urban History 51 (2023).
Other Scholarly Publications
Other Scholarly Publications
“The Choreographer as Intellectual: Alvin Ailey’s Ideas about Black Modern Dance.” Journal of American Culture 44, no. 3 (September 2021): 237–247. (Winner of the William M. Jones Award for Outstanding Graduate Paper.)
Public Writing
Public Writing
“Alvin Ailey’s Pluralistic Vision for America.” Picturing Black History (2024).
“Moving U.S. Intellectual History Forward.” The Carryall (Mar 2025).
“Martha Graham’s Movement.” The Nation (Jul 2023).
“The Body as Machine.” History Today 72:12 (Dec 2022).
“Novel Ideas: Black Intellectual History and The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois.” U.S. Intellectual History blog (Apr 2022).
“Stages, Streets & Screens: The Geography of New York Dance in the ’60s & ’70s Dance Boom.” Gotham blog (Oct 2020).
“Staten Island, New York” (2023) and “Atlantic City, New Jersey” (2023) map essays for Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America.
Invited Talks
Invited Talks
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (Apr 2025) · 92NY (Aug 2023) · National Museum of American History (Jun 2022) · Princeton University (Feb 2025) · Johns Hopkins University (Oct 2022)
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