Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is the dean of the College of Fine Arts, chair in Latin American Art History and Criticism, and the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. Rivera-Servera is an interdisciplinary scholar in the arts with a focus on creative ethnography, new work development in performance and other ephemeral art forms, and Black and Latinx arts and cultures in North America and the Caribbean. He focuses his research on contemporary performance, with special emphasis on the ways categories of race, gender and sexuality are negotiated in the process of migration. His work documents a wide array of performance practices ranging from theater and concert dance to social dance, fashion and speech.

Rivera-Servera was previously on the faculty of Northwestern University where he directed the Puerto Rican Arts Initiative. An alum of The University of Texas at Austin, he was the first student to graduate from the Performance as Public Practice doctoral program in the Department of Theatre and Dance.