Dr. Nyama McCarthy-Brown joins Ohio State as an assistant professor in the Department of Dance. Her scholarship and creative practice build an embodied and engaged body of research. Much of this research is presented in her book, Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research, and Practice. She regularly performs and presents her choreography both in the U.S. and abroad. She works to embed cultural referents in all of her work. Inspirations from her most recent travels to Ghana underpinned her collaboration this summer presented at the American Center in New Delhi, India.