The interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, and scholar, Christopher-Rasheem McMillan, is an Associate professor of dance theory and practice and of gender, women’s and sexuality studies at the University of Iowa. McMillan earned a BA from Hampshire College, an MFA in experimental choreography from the Trininty Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London and a PhD in theology and religious studies from King’s College London. In 2019, he was awarded the Collegiate Teaching Award, the highest teaching honor of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. In 2020, McMillan was appointed a fellow at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music in Theology and the Arts, and he was named a Resident Fellow at New York University’s Center for Ballet and the Arts in 2021. Currently, he is completing a fellowship at the Center for Afrofuturist Studies. McMillan’s research explores choreography in an expanded field, an interest that he has approached through experimental practices and creative processes in a multiple formats and expressions. He uses video, performance, photography, and oral storytelling to explore themes of race, memory, queer desire, religion, and personal and public mythology. McMillan's work is deeply rooted in spirituality and embodiment. He draws from his background in theology and corporeality to questions of social inequity and injustice in practice and theory.