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Jonathan Shandell
Dr. Jonathan Shandell is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts. A published theater historian, his scholarship focuses on issues of race and integration on the American stage of the mid-20th century. He is the author of the forthcoming book Readying the Revolution: African American Theater and Performance Culture from post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement (University of Michigan Press), to be published in January 2025 from the University of Michigan Press. He is author of The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era (University of Iowa Press, 2019) and co-editor of the anthology Experiments in Democracy (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016).