Performance Studies alum Jill Dolan (PhD '89) recently received the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities from Princeton University, where she's been on the faculty since 2008 and served as Dean of the College, overseeing the undergraduate academic experience, from 2015-2024. She will become the Annan Professor Emerita of English and Professor of Theatre Emerita in July 2026.
In addition to Princeton, over the course of her career, she has served on the faculty of the Theatre and Drama Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Theatre Program of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin.