GWSS Assistant Professor Christopher-Rasheem McMillan is one of seven recipients of the Collegiate Teaching Awards for 2019-2020. Prof. McMillan has a joint appointment in the Departments of Dance and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies. With an MFA degree in experimental choreography (Laban Conservatoire, London) a PhD in theology and religious studies (King’s College, London), he works across multiple disciplines, including religious studies, queer studies, performance, choreography, and theology. He is both a traditional scholar and creative artist who employs methods from the arts and humanities in his teaching and helps students transcend these boundaries. His pedagogy emphasizes high expectations for both physical technique and intellectual rigor, and is based in his recognition of students as whole persons. With research interests are in body theology, queer theory, choreographic practices, American religious culture, and practice-based research, his writing has been published in The Journal of Dance, Movement & Spiritualities, Kinebago, and Contact Quarterly. His performance works have been seen at venues such as the Bates Dance Festival of Bates College, Providence International Arts Festival (PVD), and The Dance Complex and Green Street Studios in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in performance platforms such as the 2011 participatory event Beyond Text, London.

"Professor McMillan is an inspiring and consummate colleague and instructor," said Rebekah Kowal, Professor and Chair of the Department of Dance. "He pursues excellence in everything he does, distinguishing himself as a principled, kind, and determined person whose pedagogy and research have added depth and social consciousness to our academic community."

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