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» Thaddeus Davis is Co-Director of Wideman Davis Dance and Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. His research, performance, creative, and community practices center on Southern Black experiences. He has received multiple honors and grants for his work, including the 2022 Mellon Monuments Grant, 2022 Alternate Roots: Partners in Action, 2022 and 2019 National Endowment for the Arts, 2024 and 2021 International Association of Blacks in Dance: COHI | MOVE Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative, 2018 National Dance Project Grant, 2017 Provost Grant to support the creations of a research team for the development of Migratuse Ataraxia, 2013 Map Fund Grant to support the research and development of Ruptured Silence: Racist Signs and Symbol, Jerome Robins New Essential Works Grant (2011), University of South Carolina Arts Institute, Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Reading/Dance Collaboration, Balance: Homelessness Project (2009), Canvas: The Master Class (2010), Cultural Envoy to Portugal, U.S. State Department.