Lisa Gilman
Program Director

Office: 447 PLC
Phone: (541) 346-3967
Email: lmgilman@uoregon.edu

Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington, 2001

Research Areas:

• African Studies
• Dance
• Gender
• Music, Dance and War
• Personal Narratives
• Performance and Power

Courses Taught:

• American Folklore
• Dance and Identity in the United States
• Dance and World Cultures
• Folklore and Gender
• Folklore and Sexuality
• Folklore in the United States
• Gender, Performance and Power
• Introduction to Folklore
• Voices of African Women
• Women's Folklore

Publications:

• 2009 The Dance of Politics: Performance, Gender, and Democratization in Malawi. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  
  
• 2009 “Complex Genres, Intertextuality, and the Analysis of Performance.” Journal of American Folklore 122 (485): 335-62.
  

• 2006 (co-author John Fenn) “Dance, Gender, and Popular Music in Malawi: The Case of Rap and Ragga.” Special issue of Popular Music 25(3): 369-81.

• 2005 “Dance, Power, and the Creation of National Community in Malawian Politics.” Congress on Research in Dance Spring 2005 Conference proceedings, pp. 100-04. Florida State University. Tallahassee, Florida. Dance & Community.
  

• 2004 (co-author Clara Henderson) “Women as Religious and Political Praise Singers within African Institutions: The Case of the CCAP Blantyre Synod and Party Politics in Malawi.” Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 8: 22-40.
  

• 2004 “The Traditionalization of Women’s Dancing, Hegemony, and Politics in Malawi.” Journal of Folklore Research 41(1): 33-60.
  

• 2001 “Purchasing Praise: Women, Dancing, and Patronage in Malawi Party Politicking.” Africa Today 48(4): 43-64.

Professional Memberships :

• American Folklore Society
• Society for Ethnomusicology
• International Council for Traditional Music
• Congress on Research in Dance
• African Studies Association
• National Women's Studies Association