The Department of Dance is thrilled to announce that Dr. Monica Rojas will be joining the UW Dance full-time faculty as an Assistant Professor of Dance beginning in July 2024.
Monica Rojas is a Peruvian-born Seattle-based cultural anthropologist and performing artist who devoted the last 15 years to extensive research and artistic work as a pioneer performer and educator of Afro-Peruvian culture and of the Afro-Latine arts movement in the Pacific Northwest. She is the founder of the DE CAJóN Project and the Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle (MÁS), two grassroots arts organizations dedicated to educating about the history and cultural resilience of people of African descent in Peru and Latin America respectively. Her artistic and scholarly work cross boundaries of academia, dance, music, theater, poetry to investigate art as a vehicle for social change.