Congratulations to UW Dance Alum, Jeremy Zihao Yuan (MFA, 2024) on the publication of his firstarticle as a dance researcher in the Journal of Dance Education! His paper "A Call for Advocacy and Empathy: A Study of Gay Men in Chinese Dance" (2025) also won the National Dance Education Organization 2024 Doug Risner Prize for Emerging Dance Researchers.
Bio:
Jeremy Zihao Yuan is a first-year PhD student in Dance Studies at The Ohio State University, pursuing a minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the Shanghai Theatre Academy (2016) and a Master of Fine Arts in Dancefrom the University of Washington (2024). As a queer Chinese dance performer & maker, Jeremy’s personal identity profoundly informs both his artistic vision and academic scholarship. He is a dedicated advocate for gender inclusivity and representation in dance, exploring the intersections of gender and sexuality, art, and culture through both research and movement practice. Jeremy’s current research focuses on re-centering the voices, narratives, and experiences of marginalized individuals, currently & specifically on Sinophone (Chinese-speaking) diasporas and communities, through a queer lens and their hybridization. His recent scholarly works/projects draw on queer theory, diaspora studies, migration and immigration studies, gender and sexuality studies, as well as critical and queer cultural studies.