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Carla Stalling (Huntington) Walter completed her Ph.D. in Dance History and Theory in 2004, and is currently an Associate Professor at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. Carla has held positions as Assistant and Associate Professor at Missouri Southern State University (Joplin, Missouri, 2003—2009) and was an Invited Professor at the Universite de Savoie, Institute of Management (Annecy, France, 2010). She is the author of Black Social Dance in Television Advertising; An Analytical History (McFarland Publishers, Inc., 2011), and her most recent article, “Moving (Euro American) Consumers in Mysterious Ways with African American Social Dance in Commercials,” appears in the journal, Consumption, Markets & Culture (in press). Carla’s current research examines the role of dance in persuasion communication and branding. www.carlastallinghuntington.com.