Tavia Nyong’o

Tavia Nyong’o is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. He is the author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance and the Ruses of Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), and of numerous articles in performance and cultural criticism that have appeared in Criticism, Social Text, Women and Performance, The Yale Journal of Criticism, Performance Research, and Radical History Review. Nyong’o has been the recipient of awards and fellowships from numerous foundations, including a British Marshall Scholarship, as well as fellowships from the Jacob K. Javits Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the International Center for Advanced Study at New York University. His dissertation was runner-up for the Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize of the American Studies Association. Nyong’o is currently the web editor of the journal Social Text.