Dasha A. Chapman is an interdisciplinary dancer-scholar whose research, teaching, curation, and performances interweave a nexus of Haitian, Caribbean, and Black studies, critical dance and performance studies, ethnography, queer/gender studies, and embodied practice. Dr. Chapman’s current monograph, Grounding Practice: Dancing Haiti on Tè Glise, is a multi-sited ethnography that follows the artistry of six Haitian dance pedagogues to show how their teaching and learning of Haitian dance became a powerful counter-hegemonic placemaking practice after the 2010 earthquake. Dr. Chapman’s solo and co-authored writing has been published in Americas: a Hemispheric Music Journal, The Black Scholar, The Dancer-Citizen, Dance Chronicle, Journal of Haitian Studies, Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, Performance Matters, Radical Teacher, Theatre Journal, and Women & Performance. Currently she is co-editing with Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper and Mario LaMothe a special issue of the Journal of Haitian Studies on "The Rights to Live Creatively." Dr. Chapman’s artistic work is collaborative and place-based. Since 2015, she has devised multidisciplinary performances with Haitian and American artists to activate hxstories, places, and dis/orientations. Dr. Chapman also co-convenes three transdisciplinary initiatives: the Haitian Studies Association’s Sexualities Working Group, Afro-Feminist Performance Routes, and Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective. Dr. Chapman received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies and an M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University. She previously held positions at Duke University, Hampshire College/Five Colleges, Davidson College, and Kennesaw State University.
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