2024 Faculty Election
Tanya Shields
Running for: Administrative Board of the Library: Humanities and Fine Arts
- Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies & Adjunct Associate Professor of African, African American and Diaspora Studies
- Women's and Gender Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
- Appointed: 2007
- Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park
UNC Service
the director for the Carolina Seminars (2019-)
Chancellor’s Advisory Committee for Faculty Salary Equity (2022-)
Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professor Committee
Carolina Women’s Center Review Committee (2020)
2019 Critical Ethnic Studies Collective, Advisory Board Member (2019-)
Carolina Performing Arts Faculty Advisory Board Member (2018-2023)
Audience Advocates Program at Carolina Performing Arts (2018-2023)
Institute of African American Research, Advisory Board Member (2017-2022)
Institute for Study of the Americas, Advisory Board Member (2017-)
Candidate Statement
Librarians are my favorite people on campus because they are curious, generous and, extend themselves to support our community. Our extraordinary librarians have contributed to Carolina's educational success by not only supporting the University's intellectual mission and facilitating faculty research, but they are constantly learning themselves --adapting to new technologies and sadly, many resource limitations. Thus, it is critical to fund our librarians and libraries so that we all can be competitive in a global intellectual space. Our libraries and those who make them invaluable through their work cannot thrive without a strong financial foundation, which I would advocate for because we cannot be a 21st century beacon without our libraries.
