Lory Janelle Dance

, Associate Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the UNL, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Visiting Senior Researcher, Lund University

She currently serves as the associate director of Ethnic Studies. Dance received her PhD from Harvard University (1995). Her most recent publications include “Performativity Pressures at Urban Schools in Sweden and New York” in Ethnography and Education in 2014 and “More Like Jazz Than Classical: Reciprocal Interactions Among Educational Researchers and Respondents” in Harvard Educational Review in 2010. Dance is currently completing a book titled Gone With the Neo-Liberal Wind: Minority Teens, School Reform, and Urban Change in Sweden and the US. From 2011 to 2014, Dance served as the co-director for strategic research for “The Middle East in the Contemporary World”, a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council and housed at Lund University’s Centre for Middle Eastern Studies. During the spring of 2010, Dance was awarded a fellowship from Lund University in honour of Hedda Andersson, the first female student to receive a degree from LU.