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Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Department of Performance Studies

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Dwight Conquergood (1949-2004) Papers

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Identifier: 20/74
Abstract Conquergood received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University in 1977 and served as an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at The State University of New York in Binghamton for a year before returning to Northwestern to teach in 1983. He remained at Northwestern until his death in 2004. His research focused on marginalized societies and refugee groups, as well as the implications, purpose and rituals of the death penalty in/on American society. The Dwight...
Dates: 1974-2005; Other: Majority of material found within 1980-2002