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Barbie Diewald's Ongoing Duet, a collaboration with Meredith Bove, was presented by LAKE Studios/Dance Research Center in Berlin, Germany, following a month-long residency.
Barbie Diewald is an invited speaker at the National Dance Education Organization's Summit for Dance Educators: Changing Spaces for Gender Inclusive Dance. They will be giving their talk “Dancing Into View: Lesbian Dance Histories in the Late Twentieth Century.” The virtual summit is March 1, 2025.
Barbie Diewald was commissioned to create a new choreographic work, “Prairie Dance” for the Motion State Dance Festival at the Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence, RI. The work will premiere on March 27, 2025.
Assistant Professors of Dance Barbie Diewald and Shakia Barron were artists in residence at the internationally-renowned Bates Dance Festival to develop their collaborative dance project, "Concourse." The work will premiere at Mount Holyoke College September 16 and 17, 2022.
Barbie Diewald was named a Faculty Research Fellow by the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Archives for her project "Consoling Clarity: Queer and Lesbian Aesthetics in Twenty-First Century Dance."
Barbie Diewald and Shakia Barron were artists-in-residence at the renowned Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. At the culmination of their residency, they shared an excerpt of their shared research, "Concourse" at the annual Jacob's Pillow College Partners Convening. Their next choreographic residency will be at High Street Studios in Ipswich, MA in December 2021.
Dinko, D. H., & Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H. Rainy season rights, dry season displacements: A feminist political ecology of seasonality, tenure fluidity and land access in irrigation valleys in Northern Ghana. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486261466044
Dinko, D. H., & Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H. (2026). A gendered critical physical geography of water security and soil fertility. Antipode, 58(2), e70148. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70148
Kansanga, M., & Dinko, D. H. (2025). Visualizing the Gendering of Agricultural Mechanization in the Global South: A Review of the Underlying Drivers. Gender, Power and Politics in Agriculture, 39-50.
Dinko, D. H., Kansanga, M., Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H., & Luginaah, I. (2024). Unpacking the dynamics of natural resource conflicts: The case of African rosewood. Land Use Policy, 136, 106962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106962
