Paul Scolieri

Paul Scolieri is Associate Professor of Dance and a member of the Africana Studies Department faculty at Barnard College. He is the author of Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest (University of Texas Press, 2013), the recipient of several honors, including the inaugural Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize from the Congress on Research in Dance. He is currently an ACLS Burkhardt Fellow at the Library of Congress completing a biography of Ted Shawn, the “Father of American Dance.”