Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research¹

Professor of performance studies at Northwestern University, is an ethnographer who has conducted extensive field research in refugee camps overseas and in immigrant neighborhoods in Chicago. Conquergood has coproduced two award-winning documentaries based on his Chicago urban field research: Between Two Worlds: The Hmong Shaman in America (1985) and The Heart Broken in Half (1990). He has consulted with the International Rescue Committee and other human rights organizations working on the death penalty, as well as with public defenders working on capital cases. He has taught at the Bryan R. Shechmeister Death Penalty College, School of Law, Santa Clara University.