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Sarah Wilbur

Associate Professor of the Practice of Dance
Dance Program
Box 90686, Durham, NC 27708-0685
Rubenstein Arts Center 209F, 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27705

Awards & Honors


Finalist - Freedley Award, FUNDING BODIES: FIVE DECADES OF DANCE MAKING AT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS (Middletown: Wesleyan U Press, 2021)

Scholarly Society Theatre Library Association · October 2022 More about this award

Finalist - de la Torre Bueno First Book Prize, FUNDING BODIES: FIVE DECADES OF DANCE MAKING AT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

Scholarly Society Dance Studies Association · September 2022 More about this award

Finalist - Oscar G. Brockett Prize for Dance Research - FUNDING BODIES: FIVE DECADES OF DANCE MAKING AT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

Scholarly Society Dance Studies Association · September 2022 More about this award

Finalist - de la Torre Bueno Prize, FUNDING BODIES: FIVE DECADES OF DANCE MAKING AT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

Scholarly Society Dance Studies Association · September 2022 More about this award

Open Monograph Award

University Duke Libraries · 2020 Open monograph support to create open access e-book for FUNDING BODIES: FIVE DECADES OF DANCE MAKING AT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS (forthcoming 2021, Wesleyan University Press).

Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop

University John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute · 2019 Faculty Book Manuscript Workshops provide a structure for generating constructive, informed criticism on near-final book manuscripts, at a moment in the writing process when authors can most effectively utilize such feedback. The program's goal is to transform already excellent scholarly projects into superior published works. The program allows faculty to invite two experts in their field and an acquisitions editor from a major scholarly press to campus. During a half-day workshop, these guests present their thoughts on the manuscript, followed by a response from the author and discussion with a broader group of invited faculty from Duke and other universities in the Triangle. More about this award

Brown Arts Initiative, Artistic Presentation Grant/The Activist Body Symposium (2017-2018)

University Brown University · 2017 The Activist Body Symposium was a day long arts and humanities convening featuring 18 artists and scholars whose creative and scholarly research responds to the guiding question: What does it mean to be a politically responsive body in this historical moment? Co-sponsored by the Mellon Initiative for Dance Studies in/and the Humanities, the Swearer Center for Engaged Scholarship, and the Brown University Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies/TAPS. More about this award

Artist of the Year

State Milwaukee Arts Board · 2006