University of Minnesota
Global Race, Ethnicity, Migration
globerem@umn.edu


Global REM's Home Page

Home > Faculty : Cindy Garcia

Page Title

Cindy Garcia

Cindy Garcia

612/626-6625
Theatre Arts and Dance 550G Rarig Center 330 21st Avenue South

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Dance and the Practices of Everyday Life
  • Ethnography of Performance
  • Chicana/o and Latina/o Politics, Culture, and Performance
  • Migration, Race, and Performance Studies

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Culture and Performance, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005.
  • M.A.: Dance, University of California, Los Angeles, 2002.
  • B.A.: Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1991.

Publications

  • Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles. Garcia, Cindy, Duke University Press, Author, 2013.
  • Garcia, Cindy. "The Great Migration: Salsa Speculations and the Performance of Latinidad." Dance Research Journal (2013 in press)
  • Garcia, Cindy. ""Don't Leave Me, Celia!" Salsera Homosociality and Pan-Latina Corporealities." Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory Volume 18, Issue 3 (2008): 199-213.
  • Garcia, Cindy. "Displace and Be Queen: Gender and Interculturalism in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)." Mediated Moves: A Popular Screen Dance Reader (2013 in press)

Outreach Activities

  • Member, Board of Directors for Academia Cesar Chavez Elementary School, St. Paul: 2010 - present

Awards

  • Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program, 2010 - 2011
  • Selma Jean Cohen Award from ASTR for Scholarship in Theatre and Dance/Movement-based Fields, 2009
  • Gertrude Lippincott Award from SDHS for her article: "Don't Leave Me, Celia!" Salsera Homosocialities and Pan-Latina Corporealities, 2009

Courses Taught

  • Theatre 8120: Race, Diaspora, and Performance
  • Theatre 8120: Ethnography of Performance
  • DNCE 3411: Dance and Popular Culture
  • DNCE 1401: Introduction to Dance
Alternative Output Formats Alternative Output Formats