Jennifer Dominique Jones

Jennifer Dominique Jones is an Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies at the Univeristy of Michigan. She completed her doctoral degree in the Department of History at Princeton University in 2014.  Prior to her appointment, she was a member of the inagural cohort of the LSA Collegiate Fellowship. Before her appointment to the University of Michigan, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender & Race Studies and the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama.  Her areas of research and teaching expertise are African American History after 1877, with a focus on politics and social life and the History of Gender and Sexuality in the United States in the Twentieth Century with a focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) politics and community life.  She teaches courses on LGBTQ History and Political life and Black Sexual Histories. She has also taught Introduction to African American Studies, Black Feminism, and Southern Black Women’s History. Her book monograph, Queering An American Dilemma: Sexuality, Gender and African American Political Organizing, 1945-1993 (under advance contract with University of North Carolina Press) analyzes how politicized concepts of homosexuality and blackness were linked in contestations over black political empowerment and white supremacy.