Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student Fellow; PhD Candidate, Department of History, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Project: Ballet Imperial: Dance and the Reinvention of the British State, c. 1945-70
Laura Quinton is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at NYU. Her dissertation examines British government support for ballet after World War II, exploring the relationship between dance aesthetics and the politics of national arts funding, public broadcasting, and cultural diplomacy. Her work has been supported by a CLIR Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources as well as grants from the Alumnae Association of Barnard College and NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts.