Dr. Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld has served as Senior Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Global Programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2017. As Senior Associate Dean, Colloredo-Mansfeld oversees the 15 departments and curricula in the social sciences and the global programs of the College of Arts & Sciences that are housed together in the FedEx Global Education Center. These include the Office of Study Abroad, the curriculum in global studies and six global area study centers. Before joining the Dean’s Office, Colloredo-Mansfeld served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology from 2013 to 2017. He has been on the faculty at Carolina since 2008, coming from the University of Iowa. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a proud Carolina Tar Heel, graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1987 as a Morehead Scholar, majoring in Anthropology and European History. Colloredo-Mansfeld’s scholarly research and teaching focuses on Indigenous peoples, consumer cultures and local food systems. Much of his work has concerned indigenous peoples in the Ecuadorian highlands. He has also worked on local food issues in the United States, focusing on efforts to integrate local food into regional food systems. As part of the Dean’s senior leadership team, he was a guiding force behind UNC's 2019 Reckoning student learning initiative Race, Memory and Reimagining the Public University, and also helped launch the Countering Hate initiative. More recently, he has served as the Academic Director for Carolina Away, the fall 2020 program of remote instruction for first- years and other students new to Carolina.

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