Joan L. Erdman

Region of Interest	South Asia
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies; Research Associate
Affiliation	Columbia College Chicago
Email	jerdman@colum.edu
Mailing Address	Department of Liberal Education Columbia College Chicago 600 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 312-344-7530 fax: 312-344 8061 to my attention
Countries of Specialization	India
Education	Ph.D. and M.A. from The University of Chicago, B.A. from Radcliffe College of Harvard University.
Research Interests	Work focuses on cultural policy and performing arts in India. Currently working on a full-length manuscript entitled Art Deco Dancer: Uday Shankar and the Oriental Dance
Publications	Stages: The Art and Adventures of Zohra Segal (1996), Arts Patronage in India (editor)(1992), Patrons and Performers in Rajasthan: The Subtle Tradition (1985), "Dance discourses: rethinking the history of the 'oriental dance'" (in Gay Morris, ed., Re-Writing Dance, 1996), General Editor of a new Encyclopedia of World (5 volumes) to be published in 2009. "Performance as Translation: Uday Shankar in the West" (TDR 1985); "The Empty Beat: Khali as a Sign of Time" (American Journal of Semiotics)
Keywords	cultural policy ; performing arts ; India ; oriental dance ; Rajasthan ; Zohra Segal.