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Lynn Garafola Elected
Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Lynn Garafola, dance critic, historian, and curator, has been
elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
among the newly announced 196 Fellows and 17 new Foreign Honorary
Members, which include such leading cultural figures as Sidney
Poitier, Judith Jamison, and Tony Kushner.
The elected
Fellows are leaders in scholarship, business, the arts, and
public affairs who have made significant contributions to
their fields of discipline and to society.
Garafola,
a faculty member in the Barnard Dance Department since 2000,
has written and edited numerous books on dance; her latest,
Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance, was published
this year. Others include The Ballets Russes and Its World
(1999); Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City
Ballet (1999); Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1989);
José Limón: An Unfinished Memoir (1998);
Of, By, and For the People: Dancing on the Left in the
1930s (1995); and The Diaries of Marius Petipa
(1992). Her articles and reviews have appeared in major dance
and cultural publications, including Dance Magazine,
The Nation, and The Times Literary Supplement.
Garafola
has guest curated and consulted on many exhibitions on the
history of dance, including shows at The New York Historical
Society and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She is
guest curator for two upcoming exhibitions: America's Irreplaceable
Dance Treasures: The First 100, which opens at The New York
Public Library for the Performing Arts on June 7, and The
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo: Costumes and Sets from the Collection
of Butler University, scheduled to open at the Chicago Cultural
Center (2007).
Her numerous
other awards include the Kurt Weill Award (2001), the Independent
Publishers Book Award (2000), a National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship (1993-1994), and De la Torre Bueno Prize
(1990). She has also been a Scholar in Residence at the Getty
Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (1991-1992).
Garafola is a graduate of Barnard College and received her
Ph.D. from CUNY Graduate Center.
The other elected Fellows for the Academy's 225th year include:
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eric Cornell of the University
of Colorado; Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist;
Steven Squyres, leader of NASA's Rover program for the exploration
of Mars; and journalist Tom Brokaw, among others.
This year's
Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members will be celebrated at
the annual induction ceremony on October 8 at the Academy's
headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A complete
list of the newly elected members can be found on The American
Academy of Arts and Sciences website at www.amacad.org.
Contact: Petra Tuomi, 212-854-7907, ptuomi@barnard.edu
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