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Amanda Reid is an Assistant Professor at Yale University specializing in dance history, queer of color critique, and post-colonial Caribbean studies. Her work examines maximalist queer diaspora aesthetics in Jamaican concert dance and West Indian decolonization narratives. Prior to Yale, she held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford Humanities Center and was a Lecturer in Stanford University's TAPS (Theater and Performance Studies) program (2020-2022). She earned her PhD in History from the University of Michigan.
Her research interests include Black radicalism, bodily freedom, and cultural autonomy, with a focus on migration's impact on Caribbean identity. She is currently completing a manuscript titled Smaddification: Dance and West Indian Decolonization.
Her writing appears in Theatre Journal and an upcoming chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies. Her academic trajectory reflects interdisciplinary engagement with race, migration, and performance studies.
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