About

Chris Walker is a professor of dance and the founding artistic director of the First Wave program in the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work creates contemporary dance, theater, and performance artwork rooted in the visual and performance cultures of the African Diaspora, and he works across disciplines including dance, theater, and film/video. Walker has served as a movement director for Lynn Nottage’s Mlima’s Tale and as a choreographer for The Secret Life of Bees, The Musical produced by Atlantic Theatre in NYC. He is the co-artistic director for the #BARS Workshop at The Public Theatre in NYC, a lab series for artists exploring the intersection of contemporary verse and theater, and a senior choreographer with the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica. Additionally, he is the program director for the New Waves Dance & Performance Institute in Trinidad & Tobago. Walker’s concert dance work has been presented internationally across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and he has collaborated on projects such as Jus Luv/Rolling Calf for the Intervention: Indigo project, which was performed in the 2015 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. His recent research includes a Romnes Fellowship focused on homophobia in the African Diaspora, and he was named a School of Education Impact 2030 Faculty Fellow in 2020.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Statistics
• Econometrics
• Applied mathematics
• Clinical psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Differential functioning

  Elsevier eBooks · 2022-11-18

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• Modeling and the Generalized Linear Model

  2021-04-20

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• Logistic Regression for Multicategory Outcomes

  Routledge eBooks · 2021

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  • Computer Science
  • Statistics
  • Econometrics
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• Log-Linear Models

  2021-04-20

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• Proportions, Estimation, and Goodness-of-Fit

  2021-04-20

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• Logistic Regression With Categorical Predictors

  2021-04-20

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• Generalized Linear Mixed Models

  Routledge eBooks · 2021 · 1 citations

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  • Computer Science
  • Mathematics
  • Applied mathematics
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• Logistic Regression With Continuous Predictors

  2021-04-20

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• Patient-Physician Concordance for Quantitative Formats and Treatment Options and the Relationship with State Anxiety

  Journal of Cancer Education · 2021-04-26

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• Association Between Two Categorical Variables

  2021-04-20

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Frequent coauthors

• Marilyn M. Schapira

  University of Pennsylvania

  75 shared

• Kathlyn E. Fletcher

  Medical College of Wisconsin

  73 shared

• Pamela Ganschow

  University of Illinois System

  70 shared

• Elizabeth A. Jacobs

  The University of Texas at Austin

  69 shared

• Sam Del Pozo

  White Memorial Medical Center

  39 shared

• Carrie Schauer

  Milwaukee VA Medical Center

  38 shared

• Kevin Cappaert

  Biological Sciences Curriculum Study

  38 shared

• Sergey Tarima

  Medical College of Wisconsin

  37 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Dance

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  2005

• M.A., Dance

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  2001

• B.A., Dance

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  1998

Awards & honors

• Romnes Fellowship