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VK Preston is an Associate Professor of History at Concordia University, specializing in cultural history of performance, early modern archives, and intersectional historiography. They currently serve as Interim Director of the Honours History Program and co-direct LePARC (Performing Arts Research Cluster) at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology. VK’s work bridges artistic practices with academic research, focusing on decolonial frameworks, climate crisis, and embodied knowledge.
Educated at Stanford University (Ph.D., Theatre Arts and Performance Studies with minor in History) and Concordia University (undergraduate studies in Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Fine Arts), VK has held fellowships at the Camargo Foundation and Cité des Arts. Their research explores archives of French colonization in the Americas, danceways as cultural memory, and collaborative performance projects with scientists and artists.
Recent awards include an honourable mention from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research for *Dancing the Kleptocene* (2023) and the Gertrude Lippincott Prize for *Baroque Relations* (2018). VK teaches interdisciplinary courses on performance history, material culture, and the Baroque era, while collaborating on projects like the New Frontiers in Research Fund initiative *The Sub-Measurable is Not Unreal*.
