Karla Slocum

Karla Slocum

AAA Executive Board Cultural Seat

My Biography

Karla Slocum is professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where she has previously served as Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and director of the Institute of African American Research. Slocum specializes in studies of race, place, history and rural Black life. She is the author of Free Trade and Freedom: Neoliberalism, Place and Nation in the Caribbean (University of Michigan Press, 2006) and Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West (UNC Press, 2019).