E. Macias

Biography

B.F.A Dance-Modern Emphasis, Utah Valley University, 2015 

Ph.D Critical Dance Studies, University of California, Riverside, 2021 

Postdoctoral Fellowship Helaine B. Allen and Cynthia L. Berenson Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Indigenous Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2021-2024 

E.Macias (Amskapi Pikuni/Blackfeet and A’aninin/GrosVentre) is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Dance, and Transdisciplinary Chair in Indigenous Epistemologies. Macias holds a Ph.D. in Critical Dance Studies from the University of California, Riverside, and B.F.A in Dance with a Modern emphasis from Utah Valley University. Her transdisciplinary research focuses on placemaking grounded in relationality, and her dance making foregrounds lineage, embodied histories, relationships to land and the more than human. Macias’ research has explored questions of gender, sexuality, and enacted resistance through Indigenous practices and performances of Fancy Shawl, Pole Dance, and Burlesque Arts. Macias has shared dance in academic, artistic, and Native communities across the United States and Canada, and has held appointments as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at the University of California, Irvine, and the Allen/Berenson Postdoctoral Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University.