[4][5] George-Graves formerly served as a professor of Theater and Dance, vice chair of the Department of Theater and Dance, and Acting Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at the University of California, San Diego.
She was also the previous chair of the Department of Dance and a professor of Theatre at The Ohio State University.
[6][7] She also served on the executive boards of the Lincoln Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, American Society for Theater Research, the Society of Dance History Scholars, the editorial boards of SDHS and Choreographic Practices, and is a founding member of the Collegium for African Diasporic Dance (CADD).
Her creative projects include Architectura, a dance theater piece inspired by architecture,[8] about how we build our lives, Suzan-Lori Parks' Fucking A, and Topdog/Underdog.
[10] She is the author of a number of books and articles on African American theater and dance.