Harvey Young

Department of Theatre

Dr. Harvey Young is an award-winning author and an internationally recognized authority on African American culture and performing arts. He is the author of Theatre & Race and Embodying Black Experience, winner of 2011 “Book of the Year” awards from the National Communication Association and the American Society for Theatre Research; editor of The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre; and coeditor of Performance in the Borderlands and Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays. He has published more than three dozen essays/articles/chapters on African American culture. Dr. Young is a former Vice President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and a past President of the Black Theatre Association. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Theatre Research, the African American Arts Alliance of Chicago and the Yale Club of Chicago. Dr. Young graduated with honors from Yale and holds a Ph.D. from Cornell. In 2012-2013, he will be a Fellow at Harvard University. For more information, see his personal site.

Education

PhD	Theatre, Cornell University
MA	Theatre, Cornell University
MA	Media Study/Women's Studies, University at Buffalo
BA	Film Studies, Yale University (with Distinction)

Recent Publications

Young, Harvey (2013). Theatre & Race. Palgrave Macmillan.

Young, Harvey (2012). The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre. Cambridge University Press.

Rugg, Rebecca Ann and Harvey Young (2012). Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays. Northwestern University Press.

Rivera-Servera, Ramon and Harvey Young (2011). Performance in the Borderlands. Palgrave Macmillan.

Young, Harvey (2010). Embodying Black Experience. University of Michigan Press.

Recent Awards and Honors

2011	Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship, American Society for Theatre Research
2011	Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship, National Communication Association
2011	African American Studies Outstanding Affliate Award
2009	Clarence Simon Award for Outstanding Teaching

Recent Fellowships & Grants

2012	Harvard University, Warren Center (American History), Visiting Faculty Fellowship
2007	Stanford University, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Visiting Faculty Fellowship
2006	Mellon Foundation/Alice B. Kaplan Center for the Humanities (Northwestern) Grant
2005	National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend
2001	Harvard University, W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Non-Resident Fellowship

Courses

503	Social Events as Performance
448	Theatre & Race
502	Research Design & Prospectus Writing