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Sherrie Barr
Sherrie Barr (MFA, CMA), independent educator–scholar, is honoured to be courtesy professor of dance at University of Oregon. Her teaching career spans over four decades, holding faculty positions in numerous higher education dance programmes in the United States. She was also privileged to teach and choreograph in Lisbon, Portugal in 1999 under the auspices of the US Fulbright Scholar programme. Barr’s scholarship focuses on the pedagogical practices found within the juncture of contemporary dance, somatics and critical feminist pedagogy. Her work has been shared at international conferences and in publications such as Journal of Dance Education, Journal of Movement Arts Literacy, Research in Dance Education and Theatre, Dance and Performing Training. She co-edited and co-authored the Community Dance section in the 2020 McFarland Press text Case Studies in Dance Education: Ethical Dimensions of Humanizing Dance Pedagogy. She currently serves as senior associate editor of Journal of Dance Education.