James D. Slack

James D. Slack is a professor in the Department of Government at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He is also a senior scientist in the Center for AIDS Research in UAB's medical school and a senior scholar in the UAB School of Public Health's Lister Hill Center for Health Policy.  Professor Slack's research has centered on the civil rights of persons with HIV/AIDS, public policy and workplace responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and diversity policies and consequences. Within the framework of anti-discrimination policy, he is also pursuing a research agenda focusing on issues pertaining to spirituality and public policy and spirituality in the public workplace.  He is currently working on a book-length manuscript on "theocentric moralism and the American political community".  Receiving the Ph.D. from Miami University in 1981, Professor Slack is (or has been) a consultant for public, nonprofit, and private organizations on public policy, organizational issues relating to the workplace ramifications of HIV/AIDS, other disabilities, diversity, and basic personnel practices. He also assists municipal, county and nonprofit organizations in grant-writing efforts. Jim Slack lives in Hoover, Alabama, with his wife, Janis, and their children, Sarah and Samuel.