Emily Enloe, EdD

Dr. Enloe graduated from the University of South Carolina-Columbia with her BA in Dance Education with Honors in May 2010.   During her time as an undergraduate she was awarded a Magellan Scholar award for research in dance and videoconferencing as well as the Richard Durlach Excellence in Dance Education scholarship. After graduating she has been the dance educator at Southeast Middle and C.A. Johnson High Schools in Columbia, SC and is currently the dance educator at Oakbrook Middle School in Ladson, SC.  In addition to teaching, Enloe was the Graduate Mentor for the Dancers Connect program housed through the University of South Carolina’s Dance Education program from August 2010-May 2014. The Dancers Connect program at USC was an undergraduate practicum experience for USC Dance Education students that provided free dance classes to middle and high school students in the Columbia community. Work with this program earned Enloe the 2012 NDEO Elsa Posey Graduate Student Scholarship.  She earned her MEd in August 2013 from the University of South Carolina in Early Childhood Education, and continues to both teach middle school as well as teach various workshops in hip-hop, dance & technology, and present at state and national conferences. Enloe graduated with her EdD in Leadership from Charleston Southern University in May 2022 and her dissertation research, Girls Need to Jam, focused on studying adolescent females’ cognitive and psychological development in a somatics-based hip-hop dance intervention group. Her research interests include whole child development particularly of adolescents, dance education pedagogy and curriculum, somatics-based dance approaches, and culturally responsive pedagogy.