Raquel Monroe

Raquel Monroe, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary performance scholar/artist/administrator and mother whose research interests include Black social dance, Black queer feminisms, popular culture, and the efficacy of collaboration to create social change. Monroe’s scholarship appears in journals and anthologies on race, sexuality, dance, and popular culture. Her in process monograph Chi-City Moves: Black Queer Feminist Choreographic Praxis in Chicago employs Black queer feminist choreographic praxis to theorize performances and acts of protest by Black femme choreographers in Chicago during the Black Lives Matter era. Monroe realizes her passion for collaboration as a member of the interdisciplinary arts collective the Propelled Animals.

Monroe is currently Dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University. Before joining Howard, Monroe served as Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Academic Affairs, as well as Professor of Theatre and Dance in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. She previously held leadership positions at Columbia College Chicago, including Director of Academic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Academic Personnel, and Chair of the Faculty Senate.