We are delighted to share that Qiran Shang, a doctoral candidate in History and Theory of Architecture, has recently been honored with a Graham Foundation 2023 Carter Manny Award citation of special recognition for her dissertation “‘It’s Only Dancing…’: Urban Spaces, Pleasure, and Resistance in Berlin, San Francisco, and Shanghai, 1924–1989.” Analyzing how people have historically made spaces of popular dance into sites of resistance, her dissertation illuminates gay and lesbian dance venues in 1920s Berlin, countercultural landscapes of dance in 1960s San Francisco, and students’ spontaneous dance parties and queer ballrooms in 1980s Shanghai.
Established in 1996, the Carter Manny Award supports the completion of outstanding doctoral dissertations on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The only predoctoral award dedicated exclusively to architectural scholarship, it recognizes emerging scholars whose work promises to challenge and reshape contemporary discourse and impact the field at large. The Carter Manny is administered by the Graham Foundation in Chicago.
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