Résumé: K. Meira Goldberg, “La Meira,” MFA, EdD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology, a community college
Scholar in Residence, Foundation for Iberian Music, CUNY Grad Center

Education:
EdD, Temple University, Dance history, 1995. Border Trespasses: The Gypsy Mask and Carmen Amaya’s Flamenco Dance
MFA, Temple University, Dance performance and choreography, 1987
BA, University of California, Los Angeles, Art History, 1980. Gypsy Origins in India, Senior Thesis 

Prizes and Grants:
2020: Barnard Hewitt Award, American Society for Theatre Research, for Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco (Oxford, 2019), for outstanding research in theatre history.
2020: Honorable Mention, Sally Banes Publication Award, American Society for Theatre Research, for Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco (Oxford, 2019), for outstanding exploration of the intersections between theatre and dance/movement.
2018: Humanities New York Action Grant, support for “The Body Questions” conference and festival.
2018: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, support for “The Body Questions” conference and festival.
2013: New York Humanities, support for 100 Years of Flamenco in New York, exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
1990, 1992: New York State Council for the Arts, for choreography for Carlota Santana Flamenco Vivo.
1989: Pew Charitable Trust, for choreographic residency at the American Dance Festival.
1986–1988: Russell Conwell Fellowship, Temple University, for academic and artistic excellence.

Publications - Books and Conference Proceedings:
K. Meira Goldberg and Michelle Heffner-Hayes, Flamenco: History, Performance and Culture (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
K. Meira Goldberg and Antoni Pizà, eds., The Body Questions: Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022).
Raquel Paraíso, K. Meira Goldberg, Jessica Gottfried, and Antoni Pizà, eds., Indígenas, africanos, roma y europeos: Ritmos transatlánticos en música, canto y baile. Música oral del Sur, vol. 17 (2021). This  is a bilingual and open access publication of the Centro de Documentación Musical de Andalucía.
K. Meira Goldberg, Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco (Oxford University Press, 2019). 
K. Meira Goldberg, Walter Clark, and Antoni Pizà, eds., Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song and Dance: Spaniards, Natives, Africans, Roma (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019).
K. Meira Goldberg, and Antoni Pizà, eds., The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance: Spaniards, Indians, Africans and Gypsies (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016).
K. Meira Goldberg, and Antoni Pizà, eds., Españoles, indios, africanos y gitanos. El alcance global del fandango, Música Oral del Sur (a bilingual and open access publication), vol. 12 (2015).
K. Meira Goldberg, Ninotchka Bennahum, and Michelle Hayes, eds., Flamenco on the Global Stage: Historical, Critical, and Theoretical Perspectives (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Books, 2015).
K. Meira Goldberg and Ninotchka Bennahum, 100 Years of Flamenco in New York City (New York: New York  Public Library for the Performing Arts, 2013). Exhibit catalog.

Publications - Selected Book Chapters and Peer-Reviewed Articles:
“Forces of Freedom: Carmen Amaya on Film, 1935–1945.” In Lidia López Gómez, ed., Popular Music in Spanish Cinema (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series [Routledge], forthcoming). 
“Bohemian Beats: From Harlem Jazz to Greenwich Village Folk in Flamenco New York.” In Juliet Bellow, ed., A Cultural History of Dance: Twentieth Century (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).
“Raising Cain: Dancing the Ethics and Poetics of Diaspora in Flamenco,” in Naomi Jackson, Rebecca Pappas, and Toni Shapiro-Phim, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance in Contemporary Perspective (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), 349–73.
Kiko Mora and K. Meira Goldberg, “Spain in the Basement: Dancing Race and Nation at the Paris Exposition, 1900,” in Brynn Shiovitz, ed., The Body, the Dance and the Text: Essays on Performance and the Margins of History (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019), 41–67.
Thomas Baird, K. Meira Goldberg, and Paul Jared Newman, “Changing Places: Toward the Reconstruction of an Eighteenth Century Danced Fandango,” in K. Meira Goldberg and Antoni Pizá, eds., Españoles, africanos, indianos y gitanos: El alcance global de fandango en música, canto y baile. Música Oral Del Sur, vol. 12 (2015): 628–665. Also in K. Meira Goldberg and Antoni Pizà, eds. The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance: Spaniards, Indians, Africans and Gypsies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), 579–621.
“Jaleo de Jerez and Tumulte Noir: Primitivist Modernism and Cakewalk in Flamenco, 1902–1917,” in Goldberg, Bennahum, and Hayes, Flamenco on the Global Stage (McFarland, 2015), 124–42.
“Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco.” Dance Chronicle, vol. 37, no. 1 (2014): 85–113.
“The Latin Craze and the Gypsy Mask: Carmen Amaya and the Flamenco Aesthetic, 1913 – 1963,” in Ninotchka Bennahum and K. Meira Goldberg, 100 Years of Flamenco in New York City (New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 2013), 68–99. 

Other Professional Activities, Accomplishments, & Language Competence: 
As a professional flamenco dancer. I performed in Madrid tablaos Los Cabales, Los Canasteros, and Arco de Cuchilleros (1980–1985), as first dancer with U.S. companies Carlota Santana Flamenco Vivo, Fred Darsow Valiente, Elba Hevia y Vaca Pasión y Arte (1987–2005), and choreographed, taught, and performed independently (1985–present). I am bilingual in English and Spanish and have translated 23 published chapters and articles from Spanish to English. I can (slowly) read Catalan, Valenciano, Portuguese, Italian, French, Gallego-Portuguese, and seventeenth-century Spanish paleography. I study Baroque Spanish dance, Afro-Caribbean percussion, Andalusí music, Feuillet notation, and medieval song.