With Dancing the World Smaller, Kowal makes a significant contribution to the fields of dance history, political cultural studies, and dance research, in general.
Rebekah J. Kowal is Professor of Dance at The University of Iowa and author of How to Do Things with Dance: Performing Change in Postwar America and co-editor with Randy Martin and Gerald Siegmund of The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics. She is currently serving as co-executive editor of Dance Research Journal.