Jewish Women on the Map - Connecticut College

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In 1962 Selma Jean Cohen began to teach dance history at the American Dance Festival at Connecticut College, which led to the creation of a program to train professional dance critics.  She later wrote The International Encyclopedia of Dance, published in 1998.  In 1981 she was the recipient of the first Dance Magazine Award to a dance historian.

After 30 years at the college, the festival moved to its current location at the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 1978.

See also: "Selma Jeanne Cohen's Encyclopedia of Dance" in This Week in History.