{{Short description|American gerontologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Anne Basting | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!-- Use only if different from full/othernames --> | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|1965|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | death_cause = | region = | nationality = | period = | occupation = Professor | title = | boards = <!-- Board or similar positions extraneous to main occupation --> | known_for =founder of TimeSlips, pioneer in creative aging | spouse = | children = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | era = | language = | discipline = Gerontologist, Artist and Writer | sub_discipline = <!-- Academic discipline specialist area - e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th Century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist --> | movement = <!-- Should match the ideological movement or denomination (for religious), "school" of thought etc. (e.g. "Anglican", "Postmodernist", "Socialist" or "Green" etc. --> | religion = <!-- Religion should be supported with a citation from a reliable source --> | denomination = <!-- Religious denomination should be supported with a citation from a reliable source --> | education = | alma_mater = Colorado College<br>University of Wisconsin–Madison<br>University of Minnesota | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = <!--Only those with WP articles--> | main_interests = | workplaces = University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influences = <!--Must be referenced from a third party source--> | influenced = <!--Must be referenced from a third party source--> | awards = MacArthur Fellowship, Ashoka Fellow | website = www.anne-basting.com | footnotes = }}
'''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").<ref>Schuessler, Jennifer. "MacArthur Foundation Announces 2016 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners" ''The New York Times'' September 22, 2016</ref><ref name="NPR">{{cite news|last1=McEvers|first1=Kelley|title=Theater Artist Anne Basting Named MacArthur Fellow|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/09/22/495069555/theater-artist-anne-basting-named-macarthur-fellow|access-date=28 October 2016|publisher=NPR|date=September 22, 2016}}</ref><ref name="McKnights Senior Living">{{cite news|last1=Bowers|first1=Lois|title=$625,000 stipend will continue work to alter perceptions of aging, dementia|url=http://www.mcknightsseniorliving.com/news/625000-stipend-will-continue-work-to-alter-perceptions-of-aging-dementia/article/527240/|access-date=28 October 2016|publisher=McKnights Senior Living|date=October 5, 2016}}</ref>
== Life == She graduated from Colorado College,<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne Basting '87 Named MacArthur Fellow |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/newsroom/anne-basting-87-named-macarthur-fellow |publisher=Colorado College}}</ref> the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the University of Minnesota.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.creativeaging.org/programs-people/speaker/anne-basting-phd|title=Anne Basting, PhD {{!}} NCCA|website=www.creativeaging.org|access-date=2016-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924024258/http://www.creativeaging.org/programs-people/speaker/anne-basting-phd|archive-date=2016-09-24|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Publications ==
=== Books === *{{cite book| title=The Stages of Age: Performing Age in Contemporary American Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Y8T5mnbB-MC|year=1998|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=0-472-10939-1}}<ref name="University of Michigan Press">{{cite web|title=The Stages of Age|url=https://www.press.umich.edu/15441/stages_of_age|publisher=University of Michigan Press|access-date=28 October 2016}}</ref> * ''The arts and dementia care: A resource guide'', New York: National Center for Creative Aging, 2003, {{ISBN|9780982337325}} *{{cite book| title=Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3T9jPZCXGoC|date=1 November 2009|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-9649-1}} * ''TimeSlips Creativity Journal''. UWM Center on Age & Community, 2004, {{ISBN|9780982337301}} *{{cite book|editor1=Anne Basting|editor2=Maureen Towey|editor3=Ellie Rose|title=The Penelope Project: An Arts-Based Odyssey to Change Elder Care|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JhvjCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR5|date=15 May 2016|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-1-60938-414-2|pages=5–}}<ref name="Anne-Basting publications">{{cite web|title=Publications (select)|url=http://anne-basting.com/publications/|website=Anne-Basting|access-date=28 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002093611/http://anne-basting.com/publications|archive-date=2 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
=== Journals === *Basting, A. D. (2001) "God is a talking horse: Performance of self in dementia". ''The Drama Review'' 45(3): 78–94. *Basting, A. D. (2003) "Looking back from loss: Performing the ‘self' in Alzheimer’s disease". ''Journal of Aging Studies'' 17(1): 87–99. *Basting, A. D. (2006) "The arts and dementia care". ''Generations'' 30(1): 16–20. *De Medeiros, K., and A. D. Basting (2013) "Shall I compare thee to a dose of Donepezil?: Cultural arts interventions in dementia care research".''The Gerontologist'' 54(3): 344–353. *McFadden S., and A. D. Basting (2010) "Healthy aging persons and their brains: Promoting resilience through creative engagement". ''Clinics in Geriatric Medicine'' 26(1): 149–161.<ref name="Anne-Basting publications"/>
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== External links == *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160923113436/http://anne-basting.com/publications/ Basting's professional website] *[https://www.npr.org/2016/09/22/495069555/theater-artist-anne-basting-named-macarthur-fellow Theater Artist Anne Basting Named MacArthur Fellow], ''NPR'' September 22, 2016 *[https://www.macfound.org/fellows/956/ Video and brief biography of Basting at MacArthur Foundation website] *[http://uwm.edu/news/theater-professor-anne-basting-wins-macarthur-fellowship/ Anne Basting named UWM’s first MacArthur ‘genius’], ''University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.'' Howie Magner, September 22, 2016
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