Antonio C. Cuyler, Ph.D. (he/him/his) is Professor of Music in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Faculty Associate in Voice & Opera in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD), and Faculty Associate in the African Studies Center at the University of Michigan. 

He is the author of Access, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Cultural Organizations: Insights from the Careers of Executive Opera Managers of Color in the U. S., editor of Arts Management, Cultural Policy, & the African Diaspora, and co-editor of Accessibility, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Cultural Sector: Initiatives and Lessons Learned from Real Life Cases. He authored or co-authored of 25 peer reviewed journal articles that appear in arts and education periodicals around the world. He also lead co-authorship of Racial/Ethnic and Gender Diversity in the Orchestra Field in 2023 and authored Arts Leadership in the Bay Area: A Qualitative Study commissioned by the Hewlett Foundation. He served as a delegate at the 2024 World Opera Forum in Los Angeles, and as the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s inaugural Scholar-in-Residence for the 2024-25 season. He has presented his scholarship around the globe in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Czech. Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. To learn more about his work, see here, Q & A with Antonio C. Cuyler, and Antonio C. Cuyler.

In 2020, he founded Cuyler Consulting, LLC, a Black-owned arts consultancy that partners with cultural organizations to maximize their performance and community relevance through access, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI). His clients have included Arts Administrators of Color Network, Charles H. Wright Museum, Dance/USA, Chorus America, the League of American Orchestras, Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, OPERA America, and Youth Orchestras of San Antonio, among others. He has served on the boards of the Tallahassee Youth Orchestras, Association of American Cultures, Florida Alliance for Arts Education, Florida Cultural Alliance, Arts Administrators of Color, and currently OPERA America.

Previously, he held faculty positions at Florida State University (FSU) where he became the first Black man to earn promotion and tenure in arts administration in the U. S., Colorado State University (CSU), Purchase College, SUNY, American University, and the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).