Joseph Jordan 
 Director, Stone Center 
 Sonja H Stone Center, CB#3000 
 (919) 962-9001 
 jfjordan@email.unc.edu
Appointed Year: | 2001
Tenured: | No
Education: | • PHD African American and Diaspora Studies, Howard University 1983

World Area of Focus:

• Africa 25%-49%
• International 25%-49%
• Latin America 25%-49%

Languages:

• French (elementary proficiency)
• Portuguese (elementary proficiency)
• Spanish (elementary proficiency)

Specialization:

African Diaspora in the Americas; Black Radical Studies; African-American Studies (cultural politics); African Studies (politics of development).
Cultural politics of race, identity and artistic production in the African diaspora, explored through representations in visual and other creative arts

Relevant Experience:

•  Authored policy papers for Library of Congress, the National Institute for Public Management, TransAfrica Forum, The DC Humanities Council, and The North Carolina Humanities Council
•  Direct project and program work with Afro-Latin communities in Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and elsewhere; teaching at Howard, Antioch and Xavier Universities; program and project development in Cape Verde and Senegal.

Distinctions:

• -ongoing Grant from: Orange County Arts Commission
• -ongoing Member of the advisory boards of the Grassroots Leadership Institute, Carolina Center for Public Service,  North Carolina Humanities Council, Our Children’s Place
• 2006-ongoing Burrus Faculty Fellowship, Institute of the Arts and Humanities
• 2006-2006 Faculty Curriculum Development Award
• 2001-2001 Governor’s Humanities Award

Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years: | 5

Relevant Courses Taught:

• AAAD 284 African Diaspora in the Americas
• AAAD 340 Diaspora Art and Cultural Politics
• Pan-Africanism in the Diaspora

Recent Publications:

• 2013 Jordan, J. (2013) Can the Artist Speak? Hamid Kachmar’s Subversive Redemptive Art of Resistance. Bodies of Knowledge: Interviews, African Art, and Scholarly Narratives. Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee, eds., Indiana University Press. 2013.
• 2012 Flores-Rodriguez, F., Jordan, J., guest editors,“The Continuing Relevance of Fanonian Thought: Remembering the Life and Work of Frantz Fanon” The Black Scholar, Fall-Win, 2012, volume 42.
• 2009 “A New Front in the Battle for Africa’s Resources: Globalization and Intellectual Property Rights.” International Journal of African-American Studies.
• 2009 “The International Simposio Amilcar Cabral: A 30 Year Journey.” The Black Scholar
• 2008 Jordan, J.  (2008) Afro-Colombia: A Case for Pan-African Analysis in Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color-Line. Manning Marable, ed. Palgrave Macmillan.
• 2007 "The Call of Revolution: The Anti-Apartheid Movement in the 1970’s" in No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists, 1953-2002 An Africa Action Book, Edited by Charles Cobb, Jr., Gail Hovey, and William Minter, Africa World Press, 2007.
• 2007 Jordan, J., "Zimbabwe: Once Again, No Easy Victories" Black Agenda Report: The Journal of African-American Political Thought and Action.  (on-line Journal).  2007.
• 2007 Jordan, J., "Globalization and Intellectual Property Rights: Problems and Prospects in Africa" Política Exterior y Soberania. Publicacíon Trimestral del Instituto de Altos Estudios Diplomáticos ''Pedro Gual''. Año 2, No. 3. Julio-Septiembere de 2007, pp. 40-4.