Clare Croft

Faculty Director of Research/Creative Practice

Clare Croft is the Faculty Director of Arts Research/Creative Practice, a position shared between the UM Arts Initiative and the Office of the Vice President of Research. As Director, Croft oversees the Arts Research: Incubation and Acceleration (ARIA) grant program, as well as Creativity Lab and Artists in the Archive. Croft is Professor of American Culture, where her research and teaching focus on dance/performance studies, dramaturgy, and US social movements, and gender/sexuality studies.