Essays & Creative Writing

Becoming Boriqua
LMNL Arts/One Book One New Orleans ​(1st Prize, forthcoming Fall 2026)​

Perfect Mothers Bake Perfect Cakes
Philadelphia Stories, Winter/Spring 2026

The Top Up
Glassworks, Issue 31, Fall 2025 (Pushcart Prize nominee)​

Why I Went from Die-hard Bernie Delegate to Suffragette for Hillary
Glamour, August 2016

George Eliot is a Woman, and Other Startling Revelations
Apiary, Spring 2014

Adventures in (M)anthropology
Skirt!, September 2011

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Scholarly Research

Shufflin' Fools: Reclaiming Tap from Metaphor
Oxford Handbook of Dance Praxis, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2027)

Black and Blue: The Women Who Reclaimed Tap
The Journal of American Culture, Volume 46, Issue 2, 2023​

Resistance in Rhythm: The Shim Sham Shimmy
Dance in US Popular Culture, Routledge 2023

How High the Moon: Deborah Mitchell's Archiving of Black Vernacular Dance
The Dancer Citizen, Issue 15, 2022

'Tuck in Your Derrière:' Butts and Bodies in Ballet and Tap
Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse, Lexington Books, 2019

Anthropology with an Agenda: Four Forgotten Dance Anthropologists
Research in Dance Education, Vol. 11, Issue 3, 2010

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Select Journalism & Op-Eds

Lights, Camera, Action: Miami City Ballet
Venice Magazine, Winter 2019-2020

BalletX Takes Dance into Philadelphia Grade Schools
Dance Teacher Magazine, 2016

Finding Oxford: A Sneak Peek Inside the World of the Undergraduate
Travel Research Online, 2012

Op-Ed: Why I'm Watching the Royal Wedding
The Baltimore Sun, 2011

Terpsichore in the Temple
Museum, January/February 2011

Homeschoolers are Always Late
Museum, March/April 2007

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Select Reviews & Artist Profiles

Review: "The Bloomsburg Companion to Dance Studies" and "Futures of Dance Studies"
Dance Research  Journal, Vol. 53, Issue 1, 2021

Freedom Writer: Tiler Mazzeo 
Venice Magazine, Fall 2018

Technique My Way: Jessica Daley
Dance Magazine, September 2013