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Martha S. Jones
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2001
J.D. City University of New York (C.U.N.Y.) School of Law, 1987
Other U of M Affiliation:
Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS) Law School, Visiting Professor
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
2703 Haven Hall
Phone:
734-647-5421
Second Office:
929 Legal Research
Second Phone:
734 763-9869. ph. 734 763-9375. fax
E-mail:
msjonz@umich.edu
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Field(s) of Study:
African American history; 19th century United States history; women's history; critical race theory, Atlantic world slavery and law
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Homepage:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/martha.s.jones |
Biography:
Martha S. Jones is Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican Studies, and Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Jones holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University (2001) and a J.D. from the CUNY School of Law (1987). She currently serves as a 2008 Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the National Constitution Center. Jones has been a fellow with the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, a recipient of the AHA’s Littleton-Griswold research grant (2002), and a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in Paris (2006 and 2007). She directs the Law and Slavery and Freedom Project, an international research collaborative with Rebecca J. Scott (Michigan) and Jean Hébrard (EHESS) and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Women’s History. Jones is the author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900(2007), which examines nineteenth-century debates over the rights of women. Her current work includes two book projects: Overturning Dred Scott: Everyday Life at the Intersection of Race and Law in an Antebellum City, from which the essay “Leave of Court: African-American Legal Claims Making In the Era of Dred Scott v. Sandford” appeared in Contested Democracy: Politics, Ideology and Race in American History, Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen, eds., (2007); and Riding the Atlantic World Circuit: One Household’s Journey Through the Law of Slavery and Freedom, a comparative study of slavery and law in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century French Caribbean and United States.
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