Emily Hawk, Ph.D.
20th Century U.S. Cultural Historian
Visiting Assistant Professor, Dickinson College
hawke@dickinson.edu
Embedded Files
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 110, no. 3 (Summer 2025). https://doi.org/10.1086/736184.
“Dance History Across Departments: Interdisciplinarity and Expanding Access to the Field.” Dance Chronicle 48, no. 3 (published OnlineFirst July 2025) https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2025.2535837.
“Civic Education and Artistic Innovation on New York City’s Dancemobile, 1967–1988.” Journal of Urban History 51, no. 3 (published OnlineFirst November 2023). https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442231211307.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Review of The Choreography of Environments, by Janice Ross. Dance Research Journal (forthcoming 2026).
“Fault Lines and Throughlines” Review of Dancing on the Fault Lines of History, by Susan Manning. Dance Chronicle (published OnlineFirst November 2025). https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2025.2579421.
“Put Some Body Into It.” Review of The Ideas that Made America: A Brief History, by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. The Carryall (March 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15072982.
Public Writing
Public Writing
“Alvin Ailey’s Pluralistic Vision for America.” Picturing Black History (2024).
“Martha Graham’s Movement.” Review of Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern, by Neil Baldwin. The Nation (Jul 2023).
“The Body as Machine.” Review of Mr. B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century, by Jennifer Homans. 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).
“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.)
“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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