Dasha A. Chapman is currently Assistant Professor of Dance Studies at Kennesaw State University and the BEACON Faculty Fellow with Research Development and Strategic Initiatives in KSU’s Office of Research.
Her work as BEACON Fellow aims to support and advocate for the research of faculty
situated across the fields of Business, Education, Arts, Architecture, Humanities,
and Social Sciences. Dasha can help faculty meet collaborators, seek appropriate funding,
navigate KSU research support, and brainstorm ideas. Meet with Dasha during her office
hours or invite her to speak with folks in your department!
Dasha is an interdisciplinary dancer-scholar whose multi-modal research, teaching, curation, and performances interweave African, Caribbean, and African diaspora aesthetic practices, dance/performance studies, ethnography, queer/gender studies, and embodied practice. Dasha’s solo and co-authored writing appears in Americas: a Hemispheric Music Journal, The Black Scholar, Journal of Haitian Studies, The Dancer-Citizen, Dance Chronicle, Performance Matters, Radical Teacher, Theatre Journal, and Women & Performance. In her artistic work, Dasha collaboratively develops place-based performances with Haitian and American artists that activate histories, spaces, and dis/orientations. She has devised community-engaged performances in artistic residence at the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Gran d’Anse il faut Bouger in Jeremie, Haiti; at the Power Plant Gallery in Durham, NC; and at A Studio in the Woods|Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Dasha also co-convenes the following transdisciplinary initiatives: The Haitian Studies Association’s Sexualities Working Group, Afro-Feminist Performance Routes, and Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective. She regularly presents her scholarship and creative research at national and international conferences. Dasha has also participated in several notable international scholarly institutes, including the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Summer Institute, Mellon Foundation Dance Studies Initiative, Harvard University Mellon School for Theater and Performance Studies, Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics ENCUENTRO, Five College Program for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas, and Northwestern University Performance Studies Institute. Dasha holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies and an M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University. Previously, she held academic positions at Davidson College, Five College Dance/Hampshire College, and Duke University.
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