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John Mueller
Professor/Courtesy Appointment, Department of Dance
Professor, Department of Political Science
Areas of Expertise
• Warfare, diplomacy, and security
• Dance, film, musical theatre
• Choreography of Fred Astaire
JOHN MUELLER (Professor/Courtesy Appointment) received
an A.B. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in Political Science
from UCLA. He was a professor of Political Science and Film Studies and
dance film archivist for the University of Rochester before being selected
as the first occupant of the Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair of National Security
Studies and professor of political science for Ohio State University.
Besides being a widely published and renowned authority on warfare, diplomacy
and security, Mueller has also written extensively on dance, film, and
musical theater, specializing in dance as an art form, dance history
and film, and the choreography of Fred Astaire. He has been a dance critic,
written over 50 columns for Dance Magazine, produced and directed numerous
dance films, and received four grants from the National Endowment for
the Humanities for his work in the dance field. Mueller has toured the
world giving lectures and film showings on Fred Astaire, and was awarded
the de le Torre Bueno Prize, presented by Dance Perspectives Foundation,
for Astaire Dancing: The Musical Films
(Knopf, 1985) as "the most distinguished book-length manuscript
in the field of dance." He has recorded the commentary track for
the Warner Home Video DVD of the Astaire-Rogers film, "Swing Time." For
his courtesy appointment in the Department of Dance he will be involved
in dance archiving, producing dance DVDs (thus far, "Loie Fuller's
Fire Dance" and "Gaite Parisienne"), and serving as a
guest lecturer in selected classes. He also directs OSU's Dance Film
Archive.
Its holdings are listed at http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jmueller/Dfa.htm
Education
• PhD, Political Science, UCLA
• MA, Political Science, UCLA
• AB, University of Chicago |
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