Faculty Research and Creative Endeavors
Explore the groundbreaking research and creative excellence flourishing within the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts.
As a Research 1 institution, Howard University's Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts is committed to advancing knowledge through rigorous scholarship, creative research, and culturally grounded artistic practice. Our faculty are nationally and internationally recognized scholars, artists, and practitioners whose work contributes to peer-reviewed research, invited publications, exhibitions, performances, and other forms of scholarly and creative output recognized by the University and the Office of the Provost.
This page serves as a public-facing record of recent faculty research and creative accomplishments, highlighting the intellectual and artistic contributions of our faculty while fostering visibility, collaboration, and engagement within and beyond the University. Entries reflect selected works recognized through established academic and creative standards and are updated on a rolling basis.
Works featured on this page include, but are not limited to:
- Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters
- Authored monographs or edited collections published by recognized presses
- Juried or invited exhibitions at recognized museums or galleries
- Other scholarly or creative contributions recognized by the Office of the Provost and the College
This page does not function as a comprehensive faculty CV repository. Instead, it offers a curated, public-facing index of recent scholarly and creative work, with links directing visitors to external publications, publishers, archives, or official project pages.
Department of Theatre Arts
Raquel Monroe, Ph.D.
Dean; Professor of Theatre Arts
- The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies: The Women Keep Dancing: Black Baby Boomers and Urban Line Dances (Oxford University Press, 2025).
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/62209
Khalid Y. Long, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Research and Creative Endeavors; Interim Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts
- August Wilson in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/arts-theatre-culture/american-theatre/august-wilson-context - tBTR: The Role of Theatre at Historically Black College and Universities (The University of Arizona University Libraries, 2025)
https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/tbtr/article/id/9503/
Department of Music
Matthew Franke
Senior Lecturer and Music History Coordinator
- “Citations, Misunderstandings, and Authenticity in Coleridge-Taylor’s Spiritual Arrangements.” Journal of the Society for American Music 19 no. 2 (2025): 79–105.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-society-for-american-music/article/abs/citations-misunderstandings-and-authenticity-in-coleridgetaylors-spiritual-arrangements
Damien LeChateau Sneed
Assistant Professor of Music
- Loving v. Virginia (Opera; commissioned by Virginia Opera; world premiere 2024).
https://www.virginiaopera.org/loving-v-virginia/ - Mass for the Endangered (Commissioned by Lyric Opera of Chicago; premiered 2023).
https://www.lyricopera.org/lyric-opera-of-chicago-commissions/
Cyrus Chestnut
Professor of Music
- Selected Discography and Recordings as Leader and Sideman (1988–present).
https://www.jazzdisco.org/cyrus-chestnut/discography/
Michael Fili
Lecturer; Coordinator of Composition & Music Theory
Published Musical Scores
- Fili, Michael. Drawing Number One, version for TTBB. Großrosseln, Germany: Musikverlag Hayo. (2025)
https://www.hayo-music.com/php/katalog_detail.php?id=HY2569M - Beethoven, Ludwig van. Symphony No. 9, Movement IV (“Ode to Joy”). The National Symphony Orchestra and The Washington Chorus, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Recorded at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC (June 1–3, 2023). Streaming recording, 23 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxvVSXFw40A
Completed New Compositions
- The Old Line (for orchestral brass and percussion)
- The Old Line (for brass quintet and organ)
- Audiam quid loquatur (for choir)
Performances at Nationally Recognized Venues (Performer)
- State Funeral for President Jimmy Carter. Washington National Cathedral Choir and Combined Military Musicians, conducted by Col. Bruce Pulver. Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC. January 9, 2025.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Hpfn20Ll0 - Beethoven, Ludwig van. Missa solemnis. The National Symphony Orchestra and The Washington Chorus, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Kennedy Center, Washington, DC. May 15–17, 2025.
https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2024-2025/noseda-beethoven/ - Verdi, Giuseppe. Aida (semi-staged). Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and The Washington Chorus, conducted by Jonathon Heyward. Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD, and The Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda, MD. June 13–15, 2025.
https://www.bsomusic.org/bso2425_c21_aida_digitalassets_350x350/ - Bach, Johann Sebastian. Magnificat; Charpentier, Marc-Antoine. Te Deum. Washington National Cathedral Choir and Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Megill. Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC. October 3–5, 2025.
https://cathedral.org/calendar/bachs-magnificat/
Natalia Kazaryan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Piano, Area Coordinator
- Recipient, FY2026 General Operating Support Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, in support of Counterpoint Concerts, a Washington, DC–based nonprofit concert series founded and directed by Kazaryan.
- Recipient, FY2026 Arts and Humanities Fellowship Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, supporting individual artistic work as a pianist and curator, including the development of new concert programs and interdisciplinary collaborations highlighting contemporary and underrepresented voices in classical music.
Department of Art
Melanee C. Harvey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Art History
- Gordon Parks: Pastor E.F. Ledbetter and Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church (Steidl Publishing, 2025).
https://www.steidl.de/Books/Gordon-Parks-Pastor-E-F-Ledbetter-and-Metropolitan-Missionary-Baptist-Church-240736 - Wherever There Is Light (Curated exhibition; TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, 2024).
https://www.tiltinstitute.org/exhibitions/wherever-there-is-light
Cheryl D. Miller, DHL, DFA
Professor of Art
- Here: Where the Black Designers Are (Princeton Architectural Press, 2024).
https://papress.com/products/here
Gallery of Art
Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet, Ph.D.
Co-Executive Director, Howard University Gallery of Art
- Mariposa Ancestral Memory (2013–2025) — ceremonial, socially engaged media performance, There’s Always More, Black History Month. American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy.
https://aarome.org/events/mariposa-ancestral-memory - “Androgynous Eroticism in Yucatec Maya Language and Literature.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Indigenous Education and Research, edited by Sandra Styres and Ryan Neepin. New York: Bloomsbury.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbury-handbook-of-indigenous-education-and-research-9781350373860/ - “Lyle Ashton Harris’s Blow-Up (Armory), 2005.” Catalog entry in Out of Many: Reframing an American Art Collection, edited by Adrienne Childs and Camille Brown. Washington, DC: The Phillips Collection.
https://www.phillipscollection.org/press/phillips-collection-presents-out-many-reframing-american-art-collection
