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  Purnima Shah, Affiliated Faculty
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  Assistant Professor of the Practice

Office Location:  106 Bivins Building
Office Phone:  (919) 660-3377
Email Address:  send me a message
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/womstud/~purnima.shah

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • Dance 175.01, Gender in dance and theatre Synopsis
    Carr 241, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
  • Dance 199s.01, Research methods in dance Synopsis
    See instru, MW 04:25 PM-05:40 PM
Education:

  • Ph.D. Performance Studies and Ethnography University of Wisconsin, Madison 2000
  • MA in Dance Ethnology University of California, Los Angeles 1992

Specialties:

Performance Studies
Technique
Recent Publications   (More Publications)
  1. Shah, Purnima. Garba Dance and Goddess Worship in Gujarat, India (in-progress). 2007.
  2. Purnima Shah. "Some issues on the Gender Politics in the Bhakti Genre of Dance-theatre Performance." The Drama Review  (Submitted, 2007).  [abs]
  3. Shah, Purnima. Editor, South Asia and South-east Asia Volume, Encyclopedia of World Dance. September, 2005-08.
  4. Purnima Shah. "2004 Barbara Stoler Miller Conference, Columbia University: A Report and Critical Appraisal of Contemporary Indian Dance Scholarship." Dance Research Journal, Special Issue on South Asian dance  (Spring, Spring, 2005).
  5. Purnima Shah. "Contesting Pasts, Performing Futures." Southern Asian Institute Newsletter, Columbia University 28:1 (Fall, Fall, 2004): 2,8-9,17, 23..