Quanice G. Floyd has joined the University of Cincinnati faculty as a visiting professor of arts administration in the College-Conservatory of Music, where she will work to develop and launch a new online degree in arts administration. Dr. Floyd is the founder of Pete-Flo Enterprises, a social enterprise ecosystem advancing liberatory and abolitionist frameworks in arts administration and cultural leadership. She is also the co-founder of the Arts Administrators of Color Network.
An HBCU alumna, Dr. Floyd earned her bachelor’s degree in music education from Howard University in Washington, D.C. She holds a master’s degree in music education from Kent State University in Ohio, a second master’s degree in arts management from American University in Washington, D.C., and a doctorate in educational leadership and management with a focus on educational policy from Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Boukary Sawadogo was appointed chair of the department of media and communication arts at the City College of New York. An associate professor of film, Dr. Sawadogo is an expert on African cinemas, animation and gaming in Africa, Harlem, African immigration in New York, and the African film and media industry. He is the founding director of the Harlem African Animation Festival.
Dr. Sawadogo is a graduate of the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, Cheikh Anta University of Dakar in Senegal, and Institut Diplomatique et des Relations Internationale in Burkina Faso. He earned his master’s degree in French language and literature from the University of Northern Iowa and his Ph.D. in Francophone studies with a concentration in African cinema from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Richard D. Benson II is the inaugural director of the Detroit Center for Black Studies at Wayne State University. Dr. Benson’s research and teaching focus on the intersections of Black intellectual traditions, education, activism, and social movements. He is the author of Fighting for Our Place in the Sun: Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960–1973 (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2015). Before his new role, Dr. Benson taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Spelman College in Atlanta.
Dr. Benson holds master’s degrees from Northeastern Illinois University and the University of Illinois Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in educational policy studies with a specialization in the history of education from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
