Kate Spanos

Kate Spanos, Ph.D., is a dancer, educator, scholar, and arts administrator. Her scholarship focuses on “dances of resistance” and social change through dance, especially in Brazil, Ireland, and the Eastern Caribbean. She is a faculty fellow in the Honors Humanities program, where she teaches a seminar in dance ethnography, highlighting the power of dance and the arts to build and enact change for communities around the world. Kate is also the assistant director of communications for the University of Maryland’s Honors College, where she amplifies the work of students, faculty, and staff.