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Professor Emerita of Dance Studies at the Theatre and Performance Studies Department, Stanford
Janice Ross is Professor Emerita of Dance Studies at the Theatre and Performance Studies Department, Stanford University, where she taught for 34 years.[1]
Ross received her bachelor’s degree in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. She then continued on to Stanford University, where she received a Master’s in dance history/curriculum and teacher education in 1975 and a PhD in the history of dance education in 1998. Ross wrote a dissertation on “The Feminization of Physical Culture”.[2]
After receiving her doctorate, Ross began her teaching career at Stanford University as Lecturer in the Dance Division. She was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies in 2004, and Professor in 2008. In 2010, Ross was invited to the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance as a Visiting Professor. In 2013, she was the founding faculty director of ITALIC, Stanford’s residence based Freshman arts immersion program.[1]
Ross’s research interests concern performance and social justice with a particular focus on tensions between political and aesthetic expression.[1] She has published on artists such as Leonid Yakobson, Margaret H’Doubler, Anna Halprin, and Lawrence Halprin.[3] Most recently, her scholarship has focused on the Halprins, chronicling Anna Halprin’s biography and exploring explores connections between dance and landscape architecture through the lives and works of Anna and Lawrence Halprin.[4]
She gives regular talks and lectures on her scholarship, including her recent work on Anna Halprin and Lawrence Halprin, dancers’ homes and architecture, and dance in the environment. Most recently, she has been invited to lecture on the Halprins for the San Francisco Historical Society and the hidden archive of the dancer’s home for the New York Public Library. Additionally, she has delivered keynotes at Tamalpa Institute; A+D Museum, Los Angeles; University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of California, Santa Barbara; Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Chicago; University of South California, Los Angeles; University of Bayreuth, Germany; De Montfort University, Leicester, UK; Wesleyan University, Middleton; and the American Library Association.
- Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks, Sariel Golomg, and Garth Grimball (2025)
- The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet (2020)
- The Aging Body in Dance: A Cross Cultural Perspective (2017)
- The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance (2019)
- On Stage Alone: Soloists and The Modern Dance Canon (2012)
- Dignity in Motion: Dance, Human Rights and Social Justice, edited by Naomi Jackson (2008)
- Ingber, Judith Brin, ed. (2008). Perspectives on Israeli and Jewish Dance.
- Ritual and Event, edited by Mark Franco (2007)
- Banes, Sally, ed. (2003). Everything Was Possible (Re) Inventing Dance in the 1960s.
- Taken by Surprise: Essays on Art and Improvisation, edited by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere (2003).[1]
