The Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award - 2006
Susan Manning, Ph.D.
Nominated By The Honorable Lorraine H. Morton
Evanston
Susan Manning, Ph.D.
Susan Manning, a Professor of English, Theatre, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University and current President of the Dance History Scholars, has advanced the cause of the humanities both inside and outside the academy. As a scholar, her special interest is dance studies, an emergent discipline which she has pursued by working through the more established fields of drama, theatre, and performance studies. She has worked to bridge the worlds of professional dance production and academic dance scholarship by convening the Chicago Seminar on Dance and Performance, a metropolitan network of artists, educators, and researchers. In addition she has given public lectures at Chicago venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art. Ms. Manning has authored two books, Ecstasy and the Demon (1993), on early-20 century German dancer Mary Wigman, and Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion (2004), which explores changing relations between modern dancers and African-American concert dancers from 1930-1950. She has also worked with the Evanston Community Foundation to develop a fund devoted to Arts in Community, which promotes the arts as an integral dimension of public life.Return to the archive listing for The Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award - 2006
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