Jane Desmond

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Jane C. Desmond is currently a Professor of Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Desmond is also a published author as well as the co-founder and director of the International Forum for U.S. Studies. [1]

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Education

Desmond holds a doctorate in American Studies with a background in performance arts, the fine arts and transnational study.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music and Dance from Brown University in 1973. [1] In 1975, she received a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in dance from Sarah Lawrence College. [1] It was ten years later that Desmond completed a graduate study in media theory, production, and criticism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [1] She then began her education in American Studies at Yale University, first with her M.Phil in 1991 and then earning her Ph.D. in 1993. [1]

Career

From 1975 to present day, Desmond's career in academia has spanned across many institutions and faculties. At Cornell University she was a lecturer in dance (1975-1978) as well as an assistant professor and co-director of the dance performance program (1978-1980). [1] Soon after she began at Duke University as an artist-in-resident in dance (1982-1993) and later as the director of the Duke in New York arts program (1990-1992). [1] In her time at Duke she was appointed full-time faculty. [1] In 1993 she started work at the University of Iowa, first as an associate professor of American Studies and Women's Studies (1993-1999), then as a tenured associate professor of American Studies (1996-2000), next an associate professor of International Studies (2003-2006), and lastly an associate dean of international programs (2004-2006). [1] Her international teaching experience includes her time as an Otto Salgo Chair in American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary (2000), and a guest teacher in the American Studies Department at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy (2016, 2018).

Presently, Desmond juggles many roles as the co-founder and director of The International Forum for U.S. Studies, the founding resident director of the Summer Institute in Animal Studies at the Center for Advanced Study, and a professor of Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois (UIUC). [1] At UIUC, affiliated faculty include the Department of Dance, the College of Fine Arts, and the College of Veterinary Medicine. [1]

Grants, honours and awards

Most recently, Desmond was appointed a Faculty Associate at the UIUC Center for Advanced Study, directing the Human-Animal Studies at Illinois Initiative from 2020 to 2021. [1] The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has also awarded her the Arnold O. Beckman Award for Research (2018), granted her a tenured faculty Fellowship and Associate Appointment at the UIUC Centre for Advanced Study (2016), appointed her as an annual Faculty-Associate in Residence (2010-2011), and named her the Humanities Research Institute Faculty Scholar (2009-2010). [1]

At the University of Iowa, Demond was awarded the Arts and Humanities Individual Research Award (2004) and the Interdisciplinary Course Development Award (2002). [1] She was also named their Global Scholar (2000-2002). [1]

Other notable achievements include The National Op-Ed Project Public Voices Fellow (2019-2020), the University of Edinburgh Centre for Advanced Study Fellowship (2019), her appointment as the Eminent World Scholar as a visiting professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University as part of the American Studies program (2009), being named president of the International American Studies Association (2007-2011) and her CIC Academic Leadership Program Fellowship (2005-2006). [1]

Her notable grants include the Hewlett Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation. [1]

Major works

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References

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  2. ↑ Desmond, Jane (2019). "Vivacious Remains: An Afterword on Taxidermy's Forms, Fictions, Facticity, and Futures". Configurations. 27 (2): 257–266. doi:10.1353/con.2019.0015. ISSN   1080-6520. S2CID   150648723.
  3. ↑ Desmond, Jane C. (April 2019). "Zones of Production in Possible Worlds: Dance's Precarious Placement, an Afterword". Dance Research Journal. 51 (1): 96–101. doi:10.1017/S014976771900007X. ISSN   0149-7677. S2CID   194643061.
  4. ↑ Desmond, Jane C. (2018-01-01). "Leisurely death and dying?: Body, place, and the limits to leisure-a prologue". Leisure and Death: An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying: ix–xviii. doi: 10.5876/9781607327295.c000a . ISBN   9781607327295.
  5. ↑ Desmond, Jane (2017-04-03). ""Make 'America' Smart Again": A Response to Trump's First 100 Days". Comparative American Studies. 15 (1–2): 4–6. doi:10.1080/14775700.2017.1406723. ISSN   1477-5700. S2CID   149113412.
  6. ↑ Desmond, Jane C. (2017-01-01). "Reading "America" Across and Against the Grain of Public Discourse". Global Perspectives on the United States: Pro-Americanism, Anti-Americanism, and the Discourses Between. 1: 1–3. doi:10.5406/illinois/9780252040832.003.0001.
  7. ↑ Desmond, Jane C. (2016-08-18). Displaying Death and Animating Life. University of Chicago Press. doi:10.7208/9780226375519 (inactive 31 January 2024). ISBN   978-0-226-37551-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link)
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