Past Member
Emily Wilcox
Funding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies; George F. Kennan Member
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of study
Asian Studies, Dance History
Website
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Emily Wilcox is completing a book manuscript examining how dance mediated the world to Chinese audiences during the Mao era (1949–76). Based on original research using Chinese-language sources, the book will explore how dance embodied ideas of socialist internationalism, Afro-Asian solidarity, and Tricontinentalism during the cold war.
Visits
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Fall
Degrees
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.
2011
University of Cambridge
M.Phil.
2004
Harvard University
A.B.
2003
Honors
2023
Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar Grant, University of Roehampton
2022-2023
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Scholar Grant
2021-2023
National Committee on US-China Relations Public Intellectuals Program
2021-2022
Wilson Center China Fellowship
2019
Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award, University of Michigan
2019
de la Torre Bueno Prize, Dance Studies Association
2016-2017
Social Science Research Council Fellowship
2014-2015
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
2008-2009
Fulbright Scholarship
2007-2008
Blakemore Freeman Fellowship
Appointments
William & Mary
2021
Tenured Associate Professor of Chinese Studies
University of Michigan
2019–2020
Tenured Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies
University of Michigan
2013–2019
Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies
William & Mary
2011–2013
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies