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Anna Jayne Kimmel is a Performance Studies scholar with an emphasis in corporality, memory, and the politics of public performance. Her research projects intersect critical dance studies, crowd theory, and the legal humanities to analyze the resulting representations of race, national identity, and democratic affect in moments of assembly across France, Algeria, and the United States. As a dancer, Kimmel has performed the works of Ohad Naharin, Trisha Brown, John Jasperse, Francesca Harper, Rebecca Lazier, Olivier Tarpaga, Marjani Forte, Susan Marshall, Loni Landon, and Christopher Ralph, among others. She is currently a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at Stanford University pursuing minors in Cultural Anthropology and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity alongside a certificate in African Studies, and lectures at Santa Clara University in the Department of Theatre and Dance (2021-2022). Kimmel holds an AB from Princeton University in French Studies with certificates in African Studies and Dance. Her writing appears in Performance Research and Lateral, with reviews published in TDR: The Drama Review and Dance Research Journal. She serves on the Board of Directors of Performance Studies international (PSi), and as the Reviews Editor of Performance Research.