Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees
Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees
Joan D. Frosch
Professor and Assistant Director
School of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts
1995
Degrees earned:
M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University
C.M.A. , Laban Institute of Movment Studies
Professor. Joan Frosch is the assistant director of the UF School of Theatre and Dance and affiliate faculty of the Center for African Studies and Center for Latin American Studies. She was the inaugural Gwendolen M. Carter Fellow in African Studies at UF in 2004 and recipient of the President’s Humanitarian Award in 2003. As co-director and co-founder of the Center for World Arts, a living laboratory exploring the interface of arts and culture, Dr. Frosch has conducted research that has attracted honors and awards from the Florida Department of State’s Division of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. Dr. Frosch is a dance ethnographer, Certified Laban Movement Analyst, choreographer, author, and filmmaker. The documentary feature film “Movement (R)evolution Africa,” which she directed and produced, recently premiered at New York’s Lincoln Center to critical acclaim. Frosch is a founding member of the Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium (TACAC), a national organization of curators, presenters, and scholars dedicated to the vigorous artistic exchange of contemporary African performance.
