Dana Mills is a writer, dancer, and peace and human rights advocate. She Holds her PhD from the University of Oxford. As an academic, she has held posts, among other institutions, in the University of Oxford, NYU, Northwestern University, American Dance Festival, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, University of Amsterdam and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Since 2021 she has been working in Israeli–Palestinian civil society on a variety of issues, among them a director of the largest organization for peace in Israel Peace Now. Mills has published many articles and three books: Dance and Politics: Moving beyond Boundaries (MUP, 2016); the biography Rosa Luxemburg (Reaktion, 2020) and Dance and Activism: A Century of Radical Dance Across the World (Bloomsbury, 2021).