Awarded annually to the best English-language dance studies article published in the last year, the Dance Studies Association (DSA) Gertrude Lippincott Award recognizes excellence in the field of dance scholarship. This year Ohio State Dance Professor Harmony Bench and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Professor Kate Elwsit won the award for "Visceral Data for Dance Histories: Katherine Dunham’s People, Places, and Pieces" (TDR, 2022). "Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit’s groundbreaking work demonstrates how critical digital methods, data analysis, and visualization can reinvigorate and reshape dance history," says the the Lippincott review committee - Lindsey Drury, Angenette Spalink and Emily Bock. "Manually curating datasets from Katherine Dunham’s archives, the authors trace Dunham’s company, travels, and repertory pieces between 1947 and 1960. Bench and Elswit adeptly put a data-rich history to paper, inviting the reader into what could be a daunting and overwhelming quantity of information with refreshing clarity and straightforwardness. Their mixed methods approach disrupts discrete twentieth century dance history taxonomies of the “company,” the “tour,” and the “work”, exhibiting instead the dynamic and complex relations between these components. As such, the article is not only formative within the field of dance studies, but further exemplifies how data-rich research methods can contribute to larger histories of the Black Diaspora. The essay offers multiscalar analyses that reframe inquiries into Dunham’s work and company, and the relationship between data and embodiment. The committee believes that this essay will provide a valuable interface for future researchers who wish to work with the digital archive of Dunham’s Data as collected by the authors and their team. This article offers an exciting methodological intervention that the committee believes will have a significant impact on the intersections of dance history and the digital humanities."