The University of Florida Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship has appointed Porchia Moore, Ph.D as the center’s new associate director.
Source: UF College of Art - In the Loop
By Jessi Smith
The University of Florida Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship (CAME) has appointed library sciences and museum scholar, Porchia Moore, Ph.D as the center’s new associate director.
Moore joined UF College of the Arts in 2019 as an assistant professor in the School of Art + Art History and rotating program head of the Museum Studies department. She will retain her professorship while serving part time as CAME’s associate director.
“Dr. Moore is a superstar scholar and facilitator in cultural heritage and museum studies fields, and we are truly fortunate to have her step into this leadership role,” says CAME Director, Oṣubi Craig.
He adds, “Porchia brings innovative thinking, a track record of building powerful interdisciplinary research and partnerships, and a massive national and international network at the intersections of culture, community, emerging technology, and the creative economy. We look forward to Porchia cultivating our research agenda and expanding co-curricular activities and class offerings from the center.”
Moore succeeds Welson Tremura, Ph.D, Professor in the School of Music and the Center for Latin American Studies, who served as CAME’s inaugural associate director from 2021-2023.
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A self-proclaimed “museum geek,” Moore is an internationally recognized scholar-activist in what is known as the GLAMR (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Repositories) sector; a curator, author, and educator. She holds a doctorate degree in Library Information Sciences and a graduate certificate in Museum Management from the University of South Carolina and the McKissick Museum.
Moore is the co-founder of the Visitors of Color project, a co-director of the Incluseum, and an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Cultural Heritage Informatics Leadership Fellow. In 2022, she co-authored the American Alliance for Museums book, Transforming Inclusion in Museums: The Power of Collaborative Inquiry and is currently working on two new books anticipated to publish in 2024.
“In my research, I'm looking at the intersection of race, community, technology and informatics in cultural heritage … Specifically, I use museums as a vehicle to center BIPOC stories—queer BIPOC stories, especially—and really thinking what it means to reimagine museums and museum experiences,” Moore says.
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