Academic Affairs & Faculty Advancement
Supporting Academic Excellence and Faculty Success
The Academic Affairs & Faculty Advancement webpage serves as a central resource for faculty of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts, bringing together information, opportunities, and resources that support academic excellence, faculty development, professional advancement, and research and creative activity.
Working in partnership with department chairs, faculty, College committees, and University offices, Academic Affairs and Faculty Advancement support the policies, practices, programs, and opportunities that strengthen the College’s academic community and advance the success of its faculty as teachers, scholars, artists, practitioners, and institutional leaders.
Academic Affairs
Dr. Khalid Y. Long, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, serves as the College’s senior academic leader, providing oversight of curriculum development, accreditation and assessment, faculty affairs, academic policy, academic appeals, and the overall integrity of the College’s academic programs.
Working closely with department chairs, faculty, and College committees, the Associate Dean supports instructional excellence, shared governance, continuous academic improvement, faculty success, and the advancement of research and creative endeavors across the College.
Faculty Advancement
Dr. Dominique Douglas Hendricks, Director of Faculty Advancement, leads initiatives that support faculty throughout the arc of their careers at the College, from recruitment and onboarding through professional development, retention, recognition, and advancement.
Working collaboratively with College leadership, department chairs, program directors, faculty, and University partners, the Director of Faculty Advancement supports faculty mentoring and development; promotion and tenure processes; interdisciplinary collaboration; professional and career development; and opportunities that strengthen faculty achievement in teaching, research, creative practice, and service.
Together, Academic Affairs and Faculty Advancement reinforce a culture in which academic rigor, artistic excellence, faculty growth, collaboration, and scholarly and creative achievement are mutually reinforcing priorities.
The Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts is committed to investing in the continued growth, scholarship, and creative achievement of its faculty and staff. Explore current College funding opportunities designed to advance research and creative inquiry, professional development, and excellence across teaching, scholarship, creative practice, leadership, and service.
Dean's Faculty Research and Creative Scholarship Grant
Supporting original research and creative inquiry by full-time faculty, this competitive internal grant provides funding to advance scholarly and artistic projects, strengthen sustained research and creative agendas, and expand opportunities for future impact and external support.
Dean's Faculty and Staff Professional Development Fund
Supporting the continued professional growth of full-time faculty and staff, this competitive fund provides resources for activities that strengthen professional practice, teaching, scholarship, creative activity, leadership, administration, and service.
COMING SOON
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 section 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.
Scope and Standards
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 Academic Affairs
- 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
- "Open-Access Music Journals and the Possibility of Global Dialogue," College Music Symposium 61 no. 2 (2021), 24–40.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48645696 - “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
- Rewriting American Architecture: Contesting the Myths of National Culture: “Identifying the Religio-Racial Aesthetics of AME Church Design, 1876–1920” (University of Texas Press, 2026).
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477334171/ - 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
Elka Marie Stevens, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Interim Chairperson, & Fashion Design Program Coordinator
- Stevens, E. M. (2026). Race-ing rebellion and revolution: An analysis of dress in John Singleton’s Higher Learning. In T. D. King-Meadows & S. V. Dente (Eds.), From Higher Learning to Charlottesville: College campuses and American democracy (pp. 185–208). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61827-7
