Professor Jones is recognized as a public historian, frequently writing for broader audiences at outlets including the Washington Post, the Atlantic, USA Today, Public Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Time, the curatorship of museum exhibitions including “Reframing the Color Line” and “Proclaiming Emancipation” in conjunction with the William L. (2020) Jones is also author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (2007) and a coeditor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (2015), together with many important articles and essay.

Her latest book is Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Rights for All. Professor Jones is the author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (2018), winner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Award for the best book in civil rights history, the American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in American legal history, and the American Society for Legal History John Phillip Reid book award for the best book in Anglo-American legal history. She is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University.

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