2025
“Les 30 Nuances de Noir(es).” Afrikadaa Magazine. No. 17. Politics of Sound #2: les musiques qui réparent les corps et les récits.
Kinethic California, interview by Holly Bass
Afrikadaa Magazine. No. 17. Politics of Sound #2: les musiques qui réparent les corps et les récits.
2022
“Streetdance and Black Aesthetics.” Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies. Eds. Mary Fogarty and Imani Kai Johnson.
Oxford University Press.
2014
“Shot and Captured: Turf Dance, YAK Films, and the Oakland, California, R.I.P. Project.” TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, 58.2.
2015 Outstanding Dance Publication, Congress on Research in Dance
2015 Gerald Kahn Scholar’s Prize, American Society of Theatre Research
2013 Graduate Essay Award, TDR Journal of Performance Studies
Screen grab courtesy of YAK Films, 2009.
2024
Kinethic California: Dancing Funk & Disco Kinships. Dance Studies Association. Detroit: University of Michigan Press.
2026 Finalist, Oscar Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research, Dance Studies Association
2025 Errol Hill Award, American Society for Theatre Research
2025 Finalist, Outstanding Book Award for Scholarly Achievement, Association for Theatre in Higher Education
2024 NEH Open Book Award
Cover art d. Sabela grimes
2018
"On the Front Porch: Deborah McCoy and Fresno Streetdance." Tropics of Meta. Fresno State Valley Public History Project.
2014
“Techniques of Black Male Re/Dress: Corporeal Drag & Kinesthetic Politics in the Rebirth of Waacking/ Punkin.’” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 24.1 Special Issue: “All Hail the Queenz: A Queer Feminist Recalibration of Hip Hop Scholarship.” Eds. Jessica Pabón and Shanté Smalls.
Artist: Abby TC5, Queens, 2013.