Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff Development
kslocum@unc.edu
919.843.5105
Dr. Karla Slocum is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff Development in the College of Arts and Sciences. In her role, she creates and supports professional and leadership development as well as mentoring opportunities for faculty and staff in the College. Her work entails strengthening the capacity for professional and scholarly communities among College faculty and staff to thrive.
Slocum has been on faculty at Carolina for more than 25 years. She is currently a professor in the department of anthropology and adjunct faculty in the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies. From 2013 to 2021, she served as director of the Institute of African American Research (IAAR) and, from 2002-2006, she was co-director of the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (MURAP). Slocum spearheaded and previously co-chaired the anthropology department’s concentration on Race, Difference and Power. She also served as a board member for the American Anthropological Association, the UNC Latina/o studies minor, the Duke-UNC Consortium for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for the Study of the American South and the Stone Center for Black Culture and History. Her research interests concern the intersection of race, place and history especially focusing on the significance of place among historic and rural Black communities. Most recently, she is the author of Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West.