Dean Howard University, Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts | Washington, District of Columbia We are pleased to announce that Raquel Monroe, Ph.D has been selected as Dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University, effective August 4, 2025.In this role, she will oversee academic, performance, and research programming for visual arts and design, music, and theater arts. An award-winning academic and cultural leader, she currently serves as a full professor and associate dean of graduate education and academic affairs at the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Fine Arts.Monroe is a founding board member of the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance and a member of Propelled Animals, a multimedia, interdisciplinary arts collective. Before her work at UT Austin, she was a professor in dance and an administrator at Columbia College in Chicago, where she served as president of the faculty senate and director of academic personnel engaged in antidiscrimination and merit-based belonging initiatives. Her research interests include Black social dance, queer Black feminism, popular culture, and the efficacy of collaboration in driving social change. Her scholarship has been featured in numerous respected journals and anthologies, including Dance Research Journal, Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, and the Journal of Pan-African Studies. Funding for her creative work in film, performances, installations, and choreography has come from numerous organizations, including the Walder Foundation, National Performance Network, USArtists International, MAP Fund, and the Studio for Creative Inquiry.Monroe received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Herberger Institute for Design at Arizona State University, the Mid-Career Award and Trailblazer Award from the Dance Studies Association, and the Excellence in Teaching Award from Columbia College in Chicago. She earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in dance and theatre and a Master of Arts degree in communication from Arizona State University and a doctorate in culture and performance from the University of California, Los Angeles.Read the full announcement here.Karen Avery and Ernest Brooks led this search with Quizayra Gonzalez and Caroline Corry.
