Graul Chair in Arts and Languages

This endowed chair is named for Dr. Thomas C. and Janet M. Graul and is designed to promote interdisciplinary approaches to arts and languages with a particular focus on international perspectives. At the University of Dayton, this includes music, art, design, theater, dance, performance technology, and global language and culture.

Suki Kwon, professor in the Department of Art and Design, became the sixth Graul Chair in August 2023. She has conducted research in Tokyo and has taught, researched and traveled in China as a visiting scholar, a faculty leader of an education-abroad program, and an international seminar participant. She was selected to participate in the 2023 Art for Change International artist residency in India. Her work recently was featured in Matter + Spirit: A Chinese/American Exhibition, which toured the U.S. As Graul Chair, Kwon aims to increase the visibility of international arts and languages on campus; bring arts and languages to the core of the College’s interdisciplinary curriculum; and promote strong and regularly offered non-Western European education-abroad programs that highlight the arts and languages. In addition, she plans to use the new Roger Glass Center for the Arts as a hub for interdisciplinary and international arts and languages public programming.