CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: NEW HORIZONS OF THINKING

“The Performing Arts Training Center...has proven to be an innovative approach to integral, interdisciplinary education and cultural awakening. ... The ivory towers of the apartheid universities…are beginning to crumble. In their place have arisen new horizons of thinking.”

          Katherine Dunham, “Performing Arts Training Center,” 1970

Edited by Drs. Stephanie Y. Evans, Saroya Corbett, and Joanna Dee Das

With support from the Institute for Dunham Technique Certification (IDTC) 

Katherine Dunham’s legacy illuminates several important approaches to teaching and learning. Ms. Dunham’s contributions have been most recognized in the fields of Dance and Anthropology with some research in Film, Africana Studies, Religious Studies and, most recently, Digital Humanities. Yet, Ms. Dunham’s work, philosophies, and scholarship have only begun to be fully appreciated, studied, and implemented. 

This edited volume builds on foundational publications by Dunham Technique scholar-practitioners in the IDTC community, including Albirda Rose Eberhardt, VèVè Clark, Joyce Aschenbenner, Halifu Osumare, Joanne Dee Das, and Saroya Corbett. The editors of An Interdisciplinary Study of Katherine Dunham invite a wider range of scholars to join the Dunham learning community to expand the reach of Ms. Dunham’s stellar legacy of critical thought and community building. This collection seeks to expand research and engagement in ways that center Ms. Dunham’s life’s work. We also seek to facilitate scholarship that reflects intellectual history: how her writing and praxis have inspired and can inspire new models for education on and beyond college campuses. 

Those interested in submitting chapters are welcome to gain more insight into Ms. Dunham’s work by attending events sponsored by the Institute for Dunham Technique Certification (IDTC) in July 2026 or July 2027, online resources offered by the project editors, or an online discussion hosted by the editors in October 2026. Though engagement with the Dunham learning community is not required for chapter acceptance, in the tradition of Ms. Dunham, part of the peer review process will include the IDTC community, members of whom have, for decades, upheld ideas, practices, and standards established by Ms. Dunham herself.