Joseph Jordan
Joseph Jordan was hired in August 2021 at UNC. As vice provost, he provides leadership and support for centers and institutes in their work as key sites for academic and community engagement, support equity and inclusion across all units, and apply best practices to finance, administration, and operations management. As vice provost, Joseph provides leadership and support for centers and institutes in their work as key sites for academic and community engagement, supports equity and inclusion across all units and applies best practices to finance, administration, and operations management, including oversight of the Unified Business Cluster, which provides administrative support to the reporting units.
Joseph joined Carolina in 2001 as director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. Under his leadership, the Stone Center greatly expanded its outreach, academic initiatives and programming. The center will initiate a search for its new director in the coming weeks.
Joseph also is an adjunct associate professor in African/African American and Diaspora Studies. His work focuses on social justice movements in the diaspora, and the cultural politics of race, identity and artistic production in the diaspora, explored through representations in visual and other creative arts. He currently serves on the boards of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora and the Durham Cultural Advisory Board. He is immediate past chair of Durham’s Historic Preservation Commission and a founding board member and current advisory board member for Our Children’s Place of Coastal Horizons. His ongoing international work incudes service as an advisory board member and juror for the Djarfogo International Film Festival in Cape Verde, West Africa.
