the young people's professor

Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe is a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at NYU. She received an A.B. in Afro-American Studies from Harvard University (2001) and an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU (2003). As a scholar-artist, she practices and studies the intersections between academic history and performance (i.e. theatre, film, and television); and has a topical focus on the African Diaspora.

Amma, who is currently a Ford Foundation Dissertation Year Fellow, is currently writing a dissertation on black performance at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York; and has published part of this work in the journal, Blackstream (2006), in an essay titled "Re-enacting Trauma: Displaying the Traumatic Effects of Slavery in the Old Plantation Display." This article received an Honorable Mention from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's (ATHE) Theory and Criticism Focus Group's Graduate Student Paper Award Competition (2005). Her dissertation fellowship awards include: the Harvey Fellowship from the Mustard Seed Foundation (2006), the John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society (2006), and the Torch Fellowship from New York University (2007). Other publications and production work include How To Create a History Documentary for The History Channel and National History Day, Inc (2005), as well as serving as Senior Producer of educational materials for The History Channel's Peabody award-winning documentary, Save Our History: Voices of Civil Rights for which her work received a Beacon Award in 2006.