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 Yvonne Daniel is professor emerita of dance and Afro-American
studies at Smith College in Massachusetts. She teaches dance
and anthropology and is a specialist in Caribbean societies,
cross-cultural dance and performance, and social inequality.
She has published in Black Scholar, UCLA Dance Ethnology
Journal, CORD Dance Research Journal, Canadian Journal of
Caribbean Studies, and the up-coming electronic Journal
of World African Diaspora Studies. Her book, Rumba:
Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba (1995,
Indiana University Press) traces race, gender, and class
in contemporary Cuba through the analysis of dance performance.
She has two forthcoming books: Articulate Movement and
Embodied Wisdom: Sacred Performance in Haitian Vodou, Cuban
Yoruba, and Bahian Candomble and Dances of Pride,
Passion, and Productivity: Case Studies in the Caribbean,
Latin America and the Barrio. Her
current research is on linkages within the African Diaspora,
especially between the Caribbean and the U.S., in terms of
resistance, continuities, and distinctions.
Daniel has performed with
the Cuban National Folkloric Ensemble and as guest artist
for several Latin American dance companies. She is a Ford
Foundation Fellow (1991-92) and has been a visiting scholar
at the Womens Leadership Institute of Mills College (1999-2000).
Additionally, she has completed the Smith College Management
Program for women in administrative and managerial positions
(1996, 1997).
Daniel received her M.A.
and Ph.D. in social and cultural anthropology at the University
of California, Berkeley (1989) after completing a B.A. in
music at California State University at Hayward (1972) and
an M.A. in dance at Mills College (1975). She is also the
mother of four sons and grandmother to eight grandchildren. |
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