Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and African, African American, and Diaspora Studies; Director, Institute of African American Research; Co-Director Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program
• French (professional proficiency) • Haitian Creole French (limited working proficiency) • Spanish (elementary proficiency)
Specialization:
Globalization and place; race, ethnicity and history; social movements; critical development studies, gender; Caribbean; U.S. Southwest
Relevant Experience:
• Overseas Experience: Dominica and St. Vincent, St. Lucia • Hosted campus speaking event with executive director of local non-profit, to discuss organization’s work and opportunities for collaboration with UNC-CH
Distinctions:
• 2013-2013 NEH Resident Scholar • 2007-2007 Ueltshi Grant • 2006-ongoing Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
4
Relevant Courses Taught:
• ANTH 130 Anthropology of the Caribbean • Globalization and Resistance • Peoples of the Caribbean • Afro-Caribbeans and the United States • Advanced Seminar in Caribbean Studies
Recent Publications:
• 2017 “Caribbean Free Villages: Toward an Anthropology of Blackness, Place and Freedom.” American Ethnologist.
• 2017 Blackness and Tourism. Guest editor for special issue in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society. 19(1).
• 2017 “The African Diaspora, the Caribbean and Oklahoma: Freedom, Global Economies, and Identity,” ed. Willie Raussert. Companion to Inter-American Studies.
• 2011 Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class. Nieuwe West - Indische Gids, Volume 85, Issue 3/4, p. 275 2011
• 2009 “Situating Whites and Whiteness in the Work of Mozell C. Hill.” Transforming Anthropology. 17(1):34-38. 2009
• 2008 “Caribbean Studies, Anthropology, and U.S. Academic Realignments.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society 2008
• 2008 “Critical Explorations of Gender and the Caribbean: Taking it into the Twenty First Century.” Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture 2008
• 2007 Slocum, Karla. 2007. “Locality in Today’s Global Caribbean: Shifting Economies of Nation, Race, and Development.” (co-authored with Deborah Thomas) Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture 14(1/2): 1-18.
• 2007 Slocum, Karla. 2007. "Situating Sugar Strikes :Contestations of Race and Politics in Decolonizing St. Lucia.” Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture 14(1/2): 39-62.
• 2007 “Caribbeanist Anthropologies at the Crossroads: Revisiting Themes, Revising Concepts.” Co-edited special issues with D. Thomas. Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture 2007
• 2006 Slocum, Karla. Free Trade and Freedom: Placing Global Markets in a Caribbean Industry. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2006.
• 2005 “Globalisation, the Nation, and Labour Struggles within St. Lucia's Banana Industry.” In: Revisiting Caribbean Labour. Constance Sutton, editor. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers. 2005.
• 2003 'Discourses and Counter Discourses on Globalization and the St. Lucian Banana Industry.' in: Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. pp. 253-285. Ed. by Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg. Durham, London:Duke University Press, 2003.
• 2003 Slocum, Karla with Deborah Thomas. “Rethinking Global and Area Studies: Insights from Caribbeanist Anthropology.” American Anthropologist 105(3): 553-565, 2003.
• 2001 "Negotiating Identity and Black Feminist Politics in Caribbean Research." Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Praxis, Poetics, and Politics. Ed. Irma McClaurin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2001
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