Buck Wanner studies Dance History and completed his Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance at Columbia University. He performs, choreographs, and writes about experimental dance. Current scholarship focuses on dance in New York in the 1990s, institutional histories of dance, and data visualization and mapping as tools for dance research. He has previously edited artist-run publications including Movement Research Performance Journal, Culturebot, and the American Realness catalog READING. Buck also holds a B.A. in Dance and M.A. in Theatre and Performance, Columbia University and an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University.