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Expertise
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Work
Work
The Igor Moiseyev Dance Company: Dancing Diplomats. London: Intellect Books, 2019.
These Boots are Made for Dancing: Dance and Authoritarianism. London: Intellect Book, 2020. Forthcoming.
Ethno Identity Dances for Sex, Fun, and Profit: Choreographing Popular Dances Around the World (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2016).
Co-editor with Barbara Sellers-Young, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (New York Oxford Press, 2016).
The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers: Dancing, Sex, and Entertainment in the Middle East. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Co-editor with J. Fisher, When Men Dance: Dancing Across Cultural Borders (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Dancing Across Borders: The Americans Fascination with Exotic Dance Forms (McFarland & Co., 2008)
Editor, Balkan Dance: Essays on Characteristics, Performance and Teaching (McFarland & Co., 2008)
Choreographing Identities: Ethnicity, Folk Dance, and Festival in North America (McFarland & Co., 2006)
Co-editor with B. Sellers-Young, Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism and Harem Fantasy (Mazda Publishers, 2005)
Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Ensembles, Representation and Power (Hanover and London, Wesleyan University Press, 2002)
Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World (Mazda Publishers, 1999)
鈥淒ance and Human Rights in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia,鈥 in Dignity in Motion: Dance and Human Rights (N. Jackson and T. Shapiro-Phim, eds., Scarecrow Press, 2008)
Books
2022. Solo Improvised Dance in the Persianate World. Edited by AnthonyShay. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda. Forthcoming.
2021. Authoritarianism and Dance: These Boots are Made for Dancing. London. Intellect Books.
2019. The Igor Moiseyev Dance Company: The First Dancing Diplomats: Spectacle, Russian Nationalism, and the Cultural Cold War. London: Intellect Books. 2019.
2016. Ethno Identity Dances for Sex, Fun, and Profit: Choreographing Popular Dances Around the World. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2016. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity. Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young, Editors. NY: Oxford University Press.
2014. The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers: Sex, Dance, and Entertainment in the Islamic World. Palgrave Macmillan.
2009. When Men Dance: Dancing Across Cultural Borders. Edited by Anthony Shay and Jennifer Fisher. Oxford University Press.
2008. Dancing Across Borders: The American Fascination with Exotic Dances. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
2008. Balkan Dance: Essays on Characteristics, Performance and Teaching. Edited by Anthony Shay. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
2006. Choreographing Identities: Ethnicity, Folk Dance, and Festival in North America. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Publishers.
2005. Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism and Harem Fantasy. Edited by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers.
2002. Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Ensembles, Representation and Power. Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press.
1999. Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999.
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Education
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
6V电影网: Hirsch Fellowship 2012-2014 Rockefeller Foundation Trust for Mutual Understanding, Fellowship for research in Croatia, 2008
Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage, Distinguished Scholar Award, 2007
Texas Folk Dance Association, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Choreographing Identities study, 2003
Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), Outstanding Scholarly Dance publication of 2002 for Choreographic Politics, 2003
James Irvine Foundation, Fellow, 1998