About Takiyah Nur Amin PH.D.
MEET DR. AMIN
Takiyah Nur Amin, Ph.D. is a dance scholar, educator and academic success strategist. Her research focuses on 20th century American concert dance, African diaspora dance performance/aesthetics and pedagogical issues in dance studies.
Dr. Amin has earned degrees from Temple University, Virginia Tech and the State University of New York at Buffalo, making her the first of their graduates to complete the Ph.D. in Dance Studies.
She has earned graduate certificates in Womens and Gender Studies and Teaching in Higher Education. Dr. Amin has been an invited participant at the Black Performance Theory convening, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s New Connections Symposium and as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research and Mellon School of Theater, Performance and Research.
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Dr. Amin has published articles in The Black Scholar, Dance Chronicle, Dance Research Journal, the Western Journal of Black Studies and the Journal of Pan-African Studies.
Her work is prominently featured in several anthologies, including Are You Entertained?: Black Popular Culture in the 21st Century (Duke, 2019,) Rethinking Dance History: Issues and Methodologies (Routledge, 2017,) Jazz Dance: A History of its Roots and Branches (Florida, 2014) and The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen (Oxford, 2014.)
Her comments on issues pursuant to her research interests in dance studies have been featured in mainstream media and industry periodicals including Dance Magazine, The Dance Journal and Dance Teacher Magazine.
Dr. Amin is a leader in the field of dance studies and community service
She is a founding executive board member of the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CAADD), a board member for PoP Moves, the Vice President for Membership of the Dance Studies Association (DAS) and co-founder of the Dance Studies Associations’ Working Group on Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in Dance Studies.
Working at the intersection of faith and justice-making, Dr. Amin is past Content Director and current member of the Organizing Collective Board for Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU.)
As a first-generation doctoral degree holder, Dr. Amin was struck by the dearth of available resources to support the success of women of color academics in terms of mentoring, student support and career advancement. For this reason, Dr. Amin enlists her considerable skills to support others facing many of the same challenges she confronted in building an academic career.
Dr. Amin is a two-time participant of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity’s Faculty Success Program and Sisters of the Academy Research BootCamp, where she has been a featured presenter. In recognition of her expertise, Dr. Amin has been a featured speaker at the Annual Faculty Conference on Teaching Excellence, the Pre-Tenure Women’s Conference, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Dance in/And the Humanities Summer Seminar.
In 2014, Dr. Amin launched Black Girl Brilliance to guide individuals and institutions striving for academic advancement and effectiveness. As an academic success strategist, Dr. Amin develops tailored solutions that assist individuals in upgrading their academic careers and supports institutions committed to transformational change in curriculum, policy and practice.
Dr. Amin is a proud native of Buffalo, NY and is the eldest daughter of Karima and the late Abdul Jalil Amin. She enjoys listening to podcasts, reading contemporary fiction and is an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
