Anne Basting
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OccupationProfessor
Knownforfounder of TimeSlips, pioneer in creative aging
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship, Ashoka Fellow
Anne Basting | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor |
| Known for | founder of TimeSlips, pioneer in creative aging |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship, Ashoka Fellow |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Colorado College University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Minnesota |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Gerontologist, Artist and Writer |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| Website | www.anne-basting.com |
Anne Davis Basting, is an American gerontologist working as a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts. Her work centers around aging, memory, and dementia, both from the point of view of the elderly and that of society; and of the uses of theater, storytelling, and other arts in eldercare. She is one of the 2016 MacArthur Fellows (recipients of the $625,000 so-called "genius grants").[1][2][3]
She graduated from Colorado College,[4] the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the University of Minnesota.[5]
