Year	Degree	Institution
2004	Ph.D.	Cornell University
2000	M.A.	Cornell University
1998	M.A.	University at Buffalo
1997	B.A.	Yale University

Black Theatre Association

Harvey Young, Ph.D. Joined the faculty in 2002.


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. He is the President of the Black Theatre Association, Vice President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 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 (under contract with The University of Michigan Press) and articles/chapters in Assaph: Studies in Theatre, Southern Quarterly, and Casebook: Suzan-Lori Parks (Routledge 2007). 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 will be on research leave from Northwestern University and will be a Fellow at Stanford University’s Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

2005 - National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend

2004 - Penny Warren Honorary Service Award

2004 - Faculty Affiliate Award, Alice B. Kaplan Center for for the Humanities

Harvey Young (2007). Beyond Liveness: The Souvenir is the Performance. Performance Studies International. New York, NY.

Harvey Young (2007). Trail of Tears Memorials: Remembering ‘Placeless’ Events. American Studies Association. Philadelphia, PA.

Harvey Young (2007). Performance as Replay in Disaster Documentation. Performance Studies Focus Group Preconference. New Orleans, LA.

Harvey Young (2006). The Black Body Stands, Still: Stillness in J.T. Zealy's 1850 Daguerreotypes. Arizona State Univerity - Performance in the Borderlands Series. Tempe, AZ.

Young, Harvey (In Press). Choral Compassion: Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood and Venus in Smith-Howard, Alycia, Suzan Lori-Parks Casebook. Routledge.

Young, Harvey with David Krasner, Lisa M. Anderson, Nadine George-Graves, John Rogers Harris, Barbara Lewis, and Henry Miller (November, 2006). African American Theatre. Theatre Survey.

Young, Harvey (December, 2005). The Black Body as Souvenir in American Lynching. Theatre Journal.
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Young, Harvey (April, 2003). Touching History: Suzan-Lori Park, Robbie McCauley, and the Black Body. Text and Performance Quarterly: 133-152.

Young, Harvey (2000). Memorializing Memory: Marlon Riggs and Life Writing. a/b: Autobiography: 248-260.

African-American film, theatre & performance; Chicago Theatre (post-1965); performance in the "borderlands"; phenomenology

2007 - Present	Vice President (Conferences-2009, Association for Theatre in Higher Education
2007 - Present	Executive Committee, American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
August, 2006 - Present	President, Black Theatre Association (ATHE)
2005 - Present	Board of Directors, La Micro Theater Company (NYC-based)

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