Carol Marie Webster, PhD

Artist| Social Scientist| Creative Entrepreneur| Educator

Focused on the body, broadly construed, with particular interest in the lives and aspirations of African and African Diaspora/Black Atlantic women and their communities, I teach, research, and engage in creative practice and scholarship and activism at intersections of the arts, health, healing, and technology. Currently, I am an Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Performing Arts at Emerson College (Boston) and Adjunct Faculty in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Fordham University (New York City). I collaborate with Aboriginal Dance Artist Michael Leslie, Religion Scholars Gil Anidjar (Columbia University), CL Nash (The University of Edinburg), Geeta Patel (University of Virginia), US based Dance Professional Ruthlyn Salomons, and Bassist/Percussionist Ron Reid.

From 2018 – 2024, I partnered with initiatives at The Place (UK), TU Dance (US), Shephens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear|Harvard Medical School (US), University of Leeds (UK), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), Columbia University (US).  My career also includes Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life and the Department of Religion at Columbia University, Affiliated Faculty at the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College, Visiting Scholar at the The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Cultural Engagement Fellow at the University of Oxford, which facilitated the development of the arts and science performance research project, Transportation Transformation: Migration, Teleportation, and Railways. 

As a professional performing artist I have worked with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Forces of Nature, DanceBrazil, Stack Motions Productions, and Urban Bush Women.  

I hold Master degrees in Religious Studies and Cultures and Development Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, and a PhD in Sociology/Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom (UK).