Immediate Past Vice President for Conference (2009)

Harvey Young
Immediate Past Vice President for Conference (2009)
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Harvey Young is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University, where he has appointments in African American Studies, Performance Studies, and Radio/Television/Film. In addition to being the Vice President for Conference 2009, he served as the President of the Black Theatre Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the American Society for Theatre Research. Dr. Young is the author of numerous articles and essays, including “The Black Body as Souvenir in American Lynching,” and “Touching History: Suzan-Lori Parks, Robbie McCauley, and the Black Body.” Forthcoming publications include his first book, Embodying Black Experience (with The University of Michigan Press). His current research interests include apartheid-era “necklacings” in South Africa and the development of regional theatres in Chicago between 1960 and 1980. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend in support of the latter project. A former non-resident fellow at Harvard’s DuBois Institute, he received a B.A. with Distinction in Film Studies from Yale and a Ph.D. in Theatre from Cornell University. During academic year 2007-2008, Dr. Young was on research leave from Northwestern University and was a Fellow at Stanford University’s Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

The Immediate Past Vice President (Conference) chairs the Committee on Conferences.