Joseph Jordan
Director
919-962-9001
jfjordan@email.unc.edu

Christopher Wallace
Communiversity and Undergraduate Programs Manager
919-962-7264
chrislw@email.unc.edu

Sheriff Drammeh
Programs Associate
919-843-2669
sheriff7@email.unc.edu

Javier Jaimes-Ayala
Facilities Manager
919-962-7025
jaimes@email.unc.edu

Shakera Singleton
Administrative Manager
919-843-2668
snsingl@email.unc.edu

Gregg Moore
Assistant Stone Center Librarian
919-843-5804
moorejg@email.unc.edu

Stephanie Cobert
Program Officer
919-962-0395
stephcob@email.unc.edu

Joseph Jordan
Director

Joseph Jordan is the Director (since 2001) of the Sonja H. Stone Center for Black Culture and History and Adjunct Associate Professor, African/African-American Studies. His work focuses on social justice movements and the cultural politics of race, identity, and artistic production in the diaspora, explored through representations in visual and other creative arts.

His selected published work includes:

Cabral, Solidarity and the African Diaspora in the Americas (book chapter) in Cabral no Cruzamento de Épocas: Comunicações e Discursos Produzidos no II Simpósio Internacional Amílcar Cabral (2013); Can the Artist Speak? Hamid Kachmar’s Subversive Redemptive Art of Resistance in Bodies of Knowledge: Interviews, African Art, and Scholarly Narratives, Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee, eds., (Indiana, 2012); and The Call of Revolution: The Anti-Apartheid Movement in the 1970’s (book chapter) in No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists, 1953-2002. ed. by Charles Cobb, Jr., Gail Hovey, and William Minter. (Africa World Press, 2007).

Selected curatorial work includes: Aswarm With the Spirits of All Ages Here: Inconceivable Spaces of Slavery and Freedom: The Work of Toni Scott. 25 January – 30 April 2018; Amiri Baraka: Meetings and Remarkable Journeys; This Story Has Not Yet Been Told: The Art of Tim Okamura; La Sombra y el Espiritu II – Women’s Healing Rituals in the Diaspora: The Work of Toni Scott; Nina Simone: What More Can I Say; Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America; and 35 others in the last 15 years across the US, Latin America and Africa.

Before coming to UNC, he served as: Director for The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta; Visiting Professor, Instituto Superior de Educação, Cape Verde; Associate Professor/Founding chair, African/African American Studies, Antioch College, Ohio; Assistant Professor, Human Ecology, Howard University; and Supervisory Senior Research Specialist at the Library of Congress.Visiting Professor, Universidad Politecnica Argelia Laya, Venezuela; and Associate Professor, African American Studies, Xavier University of Louisiana;

He currently serves on the Board of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora; on the Board of Stagville (NC) State Historic Site Foundation; is Chair of the Historic Preservation Commission of Durham, NC; founding Board member and current advisory board member for Our Children’s Place – for the Children of Incarcerated Mothers; the Editorial Advisory Boards of The Black Scholar – Journal of Black Studies and Research and of PALARA – Publication of the Afro-Latin American Research Association.

Chris Wallace, Communiversity and Undergraduate Programs Director: Chris Wallace has been the Communiversity and Undergraduate Program Director at the Stone Center since Oct. 2012. Since that time, Chris and the Stone Center has helped to raise the profile of Communiversity in and outside of the community by partnering with campus and community organizations, who help to drive the mission of the Stone Center while providing academic and cultural enrichment support for local K-8th grade student participants.
Chris, and the team at the Stone Center, have worked to design programming that helps to meet the evolving needs of its student participants by stimulating more action in the community and diving into visual and performing arts activities, which increase opportunities for academic success. His desire to educate, empower and inspire youth through challenging them to become better versions of themselves helped to earn him the 2016 Robert E. Bryan Public Service award at the University, an award which recognizes outstanding engagement and service to the state of North Carolina and is one of the University’s highest public service honors. In 2017, Chris’ efforts earned him the University Diversity Award for commitment to diversity and inclusion, the University’s highest recognition for diversity efforts. Chris is a proud graduate of an Historical Black College and University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and has served with organizations such as the Black Child Development Institute of Greensboro, the Carolina Panthers, the National Youth Sports Program, Upward Bound, the YMCA, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Durham Rescue Mission and many others.