Recent Achievements

• Barbara Angeline received an Accessible Teaching Grant to develop tools and resources for Digital Accessibility in Dance and Dance Teaching. DANCE
• Jeff Friedman presented a scholarly paper on philosopher Suzanne Langer’s ideas for creative dance works as part of the annual Mind/Art/Knowledge international symposium sponsored by the LUCA School of the Arts, part of KU Leuven University, in Brussels, Belgium in June 2026. 
• In April 2026, Nancy Yunhwa Rao published the article “Materiality, Thingness, and Memory in East Asian Contemporary Music” in The Oxford Handbook of Orchestration Studies. Rao also published “The Rise of Children’s Operas in 1920s Shanghai: The Case of the Grape Fairy” in the book Childhood and Operatic Imaginary Since 1900 from Oxford University Press in June. MUSIC 
• Christopher Doll delivered the paper “Modality as Experience” at the conference Modality in French Music at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, held at the Sorbonne in Paris in March 2026. MUSICi 
• In March 2026, MyungJin Oh served as a fellow for The Sociable Fortepiano, a salon-style residency organized by the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, where she presented “Ut Pictura Musica: Embodied, Multisensory Creation in Chopin and Delacroix” and performed on a nineteenth-century Viennese fortepiano. She also presented a faculty recital, Reflections on Chopin, on April 17. MUSIC
• Jeff Friedman authored the chapter “Oral History, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression: Theoretical Frameworks and Case Studies on the Embodied Interview” in The Handbook of Global Oral History. DANCE
• Alessandra Lebea Williams is featured in the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice‘s Archive Spotlight. Williams led a residency with David Roussève’s REALITY company, immersing Rutgers dance students in queer Black movement and intersectional choreography. DANCE
• Atif Akin created O, an installation on crude oil silos in Istanbul using Perlin noise algorithms to visualize pressure. The project merges art, science, and sustainability, with materials later repurposed into colorful blankets. ART & DESIGN
• Valerie Ramshur collaborated with Christopher Cartmill and Bret McCandless on an article titled “Wandering Minds, Staged Discoveries: Exploring Indirect and Direct Research in Dramaturgy, Design, and Library Instruction,” which was published in the Theater Library Association’s Performing Arts Resources, Volume 37. THEATER

Research Spotlights