Barbara Sellers-Young, PhD is a Professor at the University of California/Davis. She has also taught at universities in England, China, and Australia and has given invited lectures at other institutions in the United States and elsewhere. Her research projects on the intersection of dance, body, and globalization have taken place in Sudan, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Nepal, China, England, and Australia. Her articles can be found in The Journal of Popular Culture, Theatre Topics, Asian Theatre Journal, Dance Research Journal and several edited volumes. She is the author of three books: Teaching Personality with Gracefulness, Breathing, Movement, Exploration and an edited volume titled Bellydance: Orientalism, Transnationalism and Harem Fantasy. Professor Sellers-Young's research has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Centre for Cultural Research into Risk, Charles Sturt University, Australia, as well as numerous grants, including a Davis Humanities Fellowship and a Pacific Rim Planning Grant. She was for two years the convener of the International Federation of Theatre Research Working Group: Theory and Practice of Performing and is President-elect of the Congress on Research in Dance. She has served on various university committees at UC Davis, taught as a member of the Davis Honors program and was from 2001-05 Chair of the Department Theatre and Dance and from 2005/06 Interim Executive Director of the Mondavi Center.