Anne Basting | |
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Occupation | Professor |
Known for | founder of TimeSlips, pioneer in creative aging |
Awards | MacArthur Fellowship, Ashoka Fellow |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Colorado College University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Minnesota |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Gerontologist,Artist and Writer |
Institutions | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Website | www.anne-basting.com |
Anne Davis Basting,is an American gerontologist working as a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts. Her work centers around aging,memory,and dementia,both from the point of view of the elderly and that of society;and of the uses of theater,storytelling,and other arts in eldercare. She is one of the 2016 MacArthur Fellows (recipients of the $625,000 so-called "genius grants"). [1] [2] [3]
She graduated from Colorado College, [4] the University of Wisconsin–Madison,and the University of Minnesota. [5]