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WORLD ARTS AND CULTURES / DANCE CORE FACULTYANURIMA BANERJI, PhD, Assistant ProfessorDance, performance, cultural politics, South Asian dance (Odissi), and research methodologiesJUDITH F. BACA, PhD, Professor of Art in World Arts and Cultures, Chicana/o StudiesMural arts and multicultural community activism. Joint appointment with Chicana/o Studies)DONALD J. COSENTINO, Ph.D., Professor (Emeriti)Myth and oral tradition, culture studies, comparative religion, West Africa, Haiti, Cuba, Los AngelesIRMA DOSAMANTES-BEAUDRY, Ph.D., A.D.T.R., Professor (Emeriti)Dance movement therapy and healing, arts in psychotherapy. North America.SUSAN L. FOSTER, Ph.D., ProfessorChoreography/performance, Dance StudiesDAN FROOT, MFA, Associate Professor (on leave Winter Quarter 2012)Choreography and PerformanceDAVID GERE, Ph.D., Professor (on leave Academic year 2011-12)AIDS/arts activism, dance criticism, critical theory, queer studies. North America, South IndiaANGELIA LEUNG, M.A., C.M.A., Associate ProfessorChoreography/performance, technique, improvisation, movement analysis, dance education.VICTORIA MARKS, B.A., ProfessorChoreography/performance, Dance Studies, dance for stage and film.JUDY MITOMA, M.A., Professor Emeriti, Director, Center for Intercultural Performance (CIP)Dance Studies, international arts activism, dance/media relations. Southeast Asia.PETER NABOKOV, Ph.D., ProfessorVernacular architecture, comparative religion. Native North America, IndiaJANET O’SHEA, PhD, Associate ProfessorDance studies, postcolonial studies, critical theory, South Asian classical and contemporary dance forms in globalcontextLIONEL POPKIN, M.F.A., Associate ProfessorChoreography and PerformanceALLEN F. ROBERTS, Ph.D., Professor, Director, African Studies CenterVisual culture, popular culture, ritual, Islam. Africa and African diasporas.MARY "POLLY" NOOTER ROBERTS, Ph.D., ProfessorTheories of representation, global arts/local lives, arts of memory and gender, African arts and humanities, museumstudies.DAVID ROUSSÈVE, B.A., ProfessorChoreography/performance, writer, director, dancer, actor.PETER SELLARS, B.A., Professor (on leave Academic Year 2011-12)Director of opera, theatre and film and television; arts activismAPARNA SHARMA, PhD, Assistant ProfessorVideo Production, post-colonial studies, and critical theory24