Anthony Shay is Assistant Professor of Dance and Cultural Studies at Pomona College. He is the author of Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Ensembles, Representation and Power (2002), amongst other single-authored books, and co-editor (with Jennifer Fisher) of When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders (2009).

Barbara Sellers-Young is a Professor in the Dance Department at York University. Her books include two single-authored books: Teaching Personality with Gracefulness (1993) and Breathing, Movement, Exploration (2001) and three edited volumes including Embodied Consciousness: Technologies of Performance (2013).

Darren Patrick Blaney, PhD is a Lecturer in the Theatre Arts Department at the University of Miami, Florida.

Christey Carwile is Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies at Warren Wilson College.

Christine Chan is studying at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine.

Paula Conlon is associate professor of musicology at the University of Oklahoma's School of Music.

Andrea Deagon coordinates the Classical Studies program at UNC-Wilmington, as well as teaching in the Women's Studies program.

Thomas F. DeFrantz is Professor of Dance and African and African American Studies at Duke University.

Ana Patricia Farfán is the founder and current editor of the Mexican Dance Research Journal, Centrífuga.

Jennifer Fisher is an associate professor in the dance department of the University of California, Irvine.

Jonathan M. Hall is an assistant professor of Media Studies at Ponoma College.

Jessica Ray Herzogenrath is a PhD Candidate in History at Texas A&M University.

Petri Hoppu is PhD and Adjunct Professor in dance studies at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Rebekah Kowal is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Iowa.

Rachmi Diyah Larasati is Associate Professor in the department of Theater Arts and Dance and Gender Women & Sexualities Studies, University of Minnesota.

Allana C. Lindgren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Aoife McGrath, Ph.D. is a lecturer in the School of Creative Arts, Queen's University Belfast.

Juliet McMains, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Dance Program at the University of Washington.

Ida Meftahi is a 2013-14 postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University.

Gabriela Mendoza-Garcia is the director of the Gabriela Mendoza-Garcia Ballet Folklorico in Laredo, Texas.

Kathy Milazzo is currently working at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History.

Andriy Nahachewsky is a Professor, Director of the Kule Folklore Centre, and Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography at the University of Alberta.

Christos Papakostas, Ph.D., is a lecturer in University of Athens.

Miriam Phillips is Assistant Professor in the School of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland.

Leonardo Pronko is a professor of Theatre and expert on kabuki at Pomona College.

Rebecca Rossen is Assistant Professor in the Performance as Public Practice Program at the University of Texas at Austin.

Nancy Lee Ruyter, Ph.D. Professor of Dance at University of California, Irvine.

Paul A. Scolieri is Associate Professor of Dance at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Barbara Sellers-Young is a Professor in the Department of Dance at York University in Toronto.

Anthony Shay is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, Pomona College in Claremont, CA.

Carol Silverman is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore at the University of Oregon.

Christopher J. Wells is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Arizona State University.

"With a rich collection from thirty international contributors who present wide and diverse dance traditions and conceptual and theoretical approaches, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity fills a gap in dance knowledge. The bountiful essays come from the fields of African and African American studies, anthropology, classical studies, creative arts, critical and cultural studies, dance, folklore, history, linguistics, media studies, musicology, performance studies, physical education and sport, religion, and theater arts ... Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young achieve their stated goal in the Handbook-namely, to acknowledge the depth and breadth of research conducted on what it means to define oneself in an ethnic category broadly conceptualized, and to explore how the dance can embody such ethnic identification within specific historical and lived contexts."--Dance Chronicle