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PUBLICATIONS

BECOMINGS: PREGNANCY, PHENOMENOLOGY, AND POSTMODERN DANCE (ROUTLEDGE PRESS, 2024)​
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2024

Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, 

Special Issue - Building Racial Equity in and Across Motherhood, Volume 13, Issue 2, 51-64. 2022

Journal of Motherhood Studies Issue 2021

“FIT AND FIRM PREGNANCY: PARADOXICAL PHENOMENOLOGY AND PRENATAL DANCE FITNESS”

Draft available upon request

Journal of Dance Education, Volume 17, Issue 1, 8-15. 2017.

Journal of Dance Education, Volume 14, Issue 2, 59-66. 2014.

Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies,Society of Dance History Scholars, Special Issue - Visual Culture and Dance — an Academic Discipline, Volume XXXII, 18-21. 2012.

“OF AIR AND AMNION: A FEMALE CREATIVE PROCESS”

Currents, a Journal of the Body Mind Centering® Association, Volume 16, Issue 1, 20-25. 2013.

Draft available upon request

OTHER PROFESSIONAL WRITING

Journalist and Interviewer, Dance Magazine and Dance Teacher Magazine

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Working Book Project:

  • Movements for Birth: Cultivating community and health through collaborative performative dance

Forthcoming Publication:

  • “Fit and Firm Pregnancy: Prenatal Dance Fitness and its Idealization of Normative Abilities and Beauty Standards” (Jan 2026, Dance Chronicle)

  • Book Chapter: “Prenatal Dance Fitness and the Conflation of Pregnancy, Fatness, and Disability,” Mothers and Disability (Ed. Lindsey Campbell and Heather Jackson, Demeter Press, 2026)

  • Book Chapter: “Dipping a Toe into Health Science,” Research in Dance: Methods, Processes, and Practical Applications (Ed. Dr. Ali Duffy, Human Kinetics, 2025)

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