Dr. Penelope Hanstein
Professor and Chair of Dance
Director, School of the Arts
Penelope Hanstein, Professor and Chair of the Department of Dance, and Director of the School of the Arts. She earned her PhD in Art Education from Ohio State University, an MFA in Dance from the University of California, Irvine, and BA in Dance from Arizona State University. She is a Certified Teacher of Labanotation and a Fellow of the International Council of Kinetography-Laban. From 1986-1998, she was a Visiting Professor at Teachers College of Columbia University, New York City, where she taught as part of the summer faculty. In 1995, Dr. Hanstein was named the National Dance Association Scholar. She is well-known for her writing on the nature of art-making in dance, choreography theory, and artistic process, as well as for performing and choreographing extensively. In 1998, she presented the keynote address for the Society of Korean Dance in Seoul, South Korea, and in December 2002 she was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Japan Society of Dance Research. She is the co-editor/author of Research Dance: Evolving Modes of Inquiry (1999, University of Pittsburgh Press). Currently she serves as a member of the National Association of Schools of Dance Commission on Accreditation, as well as a visiting evaluator and consultant.
Dr. Hanstein is a Past-President of the Congress on Research in Dance. During her tenure as President of CORD she designed and facilitated a strategic planning project for the organization. She served as a member of the National Association of Schools of Dance Working Group on K-12 Dance Education, participated in the development of the National Standards for Dance Education, was a member and Co-Chair of the Dance Notation Bureau Professional Advisory Committee (NYC), and was a member of the National Dance Education Organization Charter Advisory Committee. During her tenure at TWU, she has been active in faculty governance--serving as the Speaker of the Faculty Senate from 1986-1988--as well as through serving as a member of the University Strategic Planning Committee, acting as Chair of the University Faculty Evaluation Committee charged with designing a new framework for annual faculty performance review, and as Vice-Chair of the Curriculum Committee. In 1998, she received one of the Faculty Women Leadership Awards from the TWU Women Students' Leadership Conference and, in 1999, received the TWU Women's Studies Vision Award. |
