Glenn Jordan
Glenn Jordan is Reader in the Cultural Studies and Founding Director of Butetown History & Arts Centre (BHAC), a community archive, gallery and educational centre in Cardiff docklands. He teaches cultural theory, cultural policy and photography.
Born in Sacramento, California, he was educated at Stanford University and the University of Illinois. Prior to coming to Cardiff in 1987, he was Assistant Director of the Afro-American Studies and Research Program at the University of Illinois. He is currently working on Race (Routledge), Birth of the Black Subject (Blackwell) and a textbook entitled Our World War Two: A Multi-ethnic Community Remembers (BHAC).
In 2009, he was awarded an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award with with Prof. Chris Weedon at Cardiff University. The project centres on race and representation in newspapers and local memory, and involves Butetown History & Arts Centre and the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff
University.
Email: gjordan@glam.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1443 668590
