Keshia Wall Gee earned an undergraduate degree from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Dance and African American Studies and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance at Hollins University in collaboration with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with support from The Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company. Gee is currently an Assistant Professor at Elon University, where she coordinates the African and African American Studies minor and instructs courses in contemporary and traditional West African dance. She also leads a study-abroad trip to Ghana in collaboration with the University of Ghana Legon and the Ghana Dance Ensemble. She has presented her scholarship at the International Association of Blacks in Dance and the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance. In 2023, Gee was named a Woman of Color Leadership Project Fellow by the National Women’s Studies Association. As a choreographer, her works have been recognized by several festivals including the Midwest Regional Alternative Dance Festival and The London Monthly International Dance Film Festival. Her research focus is rooted in the presence of West African dance in higher education and how this dance form can be engaged as a valued and valid epistemological and ontological domain in scholarship and performance. Gee is also the author of Roots of Rhythm: An Introduction to West African Dance, which expands on her innovative teaching methods and contributions to the academic study of West African dance.
