Jenifer Craig is associate professor and chair of the Department of Dance at the University of Oregon. Craig earned her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, where she also taught in the Dance Department. She is director of Daugherty Dance Theatre and has been associated with the Bella Lewitzky Dance Foundation of Los Angeles since 1976. Craig is a member of the board of directors of the Society of Dance History Scholars and serves on the editorial board of the Congress on Research in Dance.