Toni Shapiro-Phim

Toni Shapiro-Phim is a dance ethnologist and anthropologist whose research focuses on dance and cultural/political upheaval, and gender issues, with a specialty in the arts of Cambodia. Co-author of Dance in Cambodia (Oxford 1999), she received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Cornell University. Shapiro-Phim undertook three years of dissertation research in Cambodia, and spent several years working in Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand and Indonesia as well. Her writing is included in the collection, AnnihilatingDifference: The Anthropology of Genocide (2002), as well as in Shifting Sands: Dance in Asia and the Pacific (2006), and Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre (2007), among other publications. Ms. Shapiro-Phim is currently co-editing a book entitled, Dignity in Motion: Dance and Human Rights. She has taught in the department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the department of dance at San Jose State University, and was a research scholar at Yale University's Cambodian Genocide Program. She is currently Associate Director of the Philadelphia Folklore Project, an arts and social justice organization.