Takiyah Nur Amin, Ph.D.
  • Welcome
  • News
  • Consulting
  • Ministry
  • CV
  • Contact

Welcome

Featured Video

About Dr. Takiyah Nur Amin

Takiyah Nur Amin (Ph.D., Temple University) is a dance scholar, educator and consultant. Her research focuses on 20th century American concert dance, African diaspora dance performance/aesthetics and pedagogical issues in dance studies. Her research has appeared in several academic journals including The Black Scholar, Dance Chronicle, Dance Research Journal, the Western Journal of Black Studies and the Journal of Pan-African Studies. ​

Her book chapters have been published or are forthcoming in the edited volumes Jazz Dance: A History of Its Roots and Branches, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, Rethinking Dance History and Are You Entertained?: Black Popular Culture in the 21st Century (Duke University Press, 2019.) She is a twice-elected board member of the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD,) co-founder of CORD's Diversity Working Group, a founding member of the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD) and a host on the New Book Network's  Dance Channel. An "interdisciplinary humanist," Dr. Amin teaches courses in dance history, Black aesthetics and the sociocultural role of dance in human society. Takiyah Nur Amin is a proud native of Buffalo, NY and is the eldest daughter of Karima and the late Abdul Jalil Amin.
Picture
Current Appointments

Postdoctoral Dance History Research  Assistant

Dunham's Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry 
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London

Content Director and Organizing Board Member
Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism

Co-Chair, Woman of Color Leadership Project
National Women's Studies Association

Vice President for Membership and Professional Development
Dance Studies Association


Events

  • 3/23/20 - 4/15/20: Black Women in Contemporary Performance
    Colorado College
    Colorado Springs, CO
  • 2/2/20-2/3/20: Fluid Black : Dance Back
    The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance 4th Bi-Annual Conference
    Duke University
    Durham, NC
  • 11/7/19 - 11/9/19: Re:generations – Dance and the Digital Space
    One Dance UK International Conference
    Salford, England
  • 10/30/19 - 11/2/19: Harper-Jordan Memorial Symposium
  • St, Paul Minnesota
  • 8/8/19 - 8/11/19: Dance Studies Association Annual Conference
    @ Northwestern University

    Evanston, IL
  • 4/17/2019 - 4/21/2019: Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD) Board Meeting @ Brown University,  Providence, RI 
  • 3/30/2019 - 3/31/2019: Sermon + Conversation @ Unitarian Universalist Area Church - First Parish, Sherborn, MA​
  • 3/13/2019 - 3/17/2019: Finding Our Way Home Retreat, Miami, FL
  • 3/4/2019 - 3/7/2019: Visit at CTS, Chicago, IL
  • 2/9/2019 - 2/14/2019: Visit at CSSD, London, UK
  • 11/8/2018 - 11/11/2018: Women of Color Leadership Project @ National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA
  • 11/1/2018 - 11/5/2018: Keynote Presentation @ Liberal Religious Educators Association Fall Conference, Houston, TX
  • 10/27/2018: 3rd Annual Black Mental Health Symposium, Charlotte NC
  • 9/29/2018 - 10/5/2018: UUA Commission on Institutional Change Bay Area Collaboratory, Walnut Creek, CA
  • 9/24/2018 -9/26/2018: Professional Development Workshop for Faculty/Staff @ Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, CA
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Welcome
  • News
  • Consulting
  • Ministry
  • CV
  • Contact