K. (Karen) Campos Mc Cormack
PhD student
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k.campos.mc.cormack rug.nl
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Jazz dance history researcher & equality, diversity and inclusion consultant. Research topic: Jazz Dancing Across the Atlantic: exploring the history of Black American jazz dancers in interwar Europe.
Overige functies
Karen Campos McCormack is a PhD candidate at University of Groningen. She holds an MA in Women's Studies and is an equality, diversity and inclusion consultant with international experience working with education and heritage institutions. Her research explores the history of Black American jazz dancers in interwar Europe, with a focus on Ireland and Spain. She is interested in invisibilized dance histories and how that legacy has been erased and remembered. Karen is also a Lindy hop and jazz dance enthusiast and event organizer who is active in local dance communities in Spain, Ireland and Portugal. She translated dancer Norma Miller’s biography into Spanish (La reina del swing, Ediciones Carena, 2018), and is the founder of Compostela Swing. She has collaborated with the Frankie Manning Foundation and presented at conferences including Dance in the Age of Forgetfulness, Documenting Jazz, and Feminist Theory and Music.
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