Melissa Melpignano has won the 2024 Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics of the American Society for Aesthetics for her article, “A Necropower Carnival: Israeli Soldiers Dancing in the Palestinian Occupied Territories,” TDR: The Drama Review, Volume 67, Number 1 (2023). Melpignano is an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Texas at El Paso.