Michael Morris, doctoral student in dance, has been awarded the Writing Across the Curriculum Outstanding Writing Instruction Award from Ohio State.

Morris also has been published in “Queer Ecologies: A Roundtable Discussion” in the European Journal of Ecopsychology and had a chapter, “Orientations as Materializations: The Love Art Laboratory’s Eco-Sexual Blue Wedding to the Sea,” included in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theatre.

In the meantime, he has been performing as a principal dancer in Viva Valezz and the Velvet Hearts, a premiere queer burlesque company in Columbus.