Scholar - Women Also Know History

Participant Info

Keywords: African American, law, race, race and citizenship, African American women.

About Me: Professor Martha S. Jones joined the Johns Hopkins University Department of History in June 2017 as the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History. She is a legal and cultural historian whose interests include the study of race, law, citizenship, slavery, and the rights of women. Professor Jones is the author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) and Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Cambridge University Press in 2018) and a coeditor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Today, Professor Jones serves as a President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and a member of the Organization of American Historians Executive Board.

Recent Publications: Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.)

All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African-American Public Culture, 1830-1900 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007.)

EDITED VOLUMES

Editor. Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women, eds. Mia Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones and Barbara D. Savage. (University of North Carolina Press, 2015.)

Guest editor. Proclaiming Emancipation. Journal of the Civil War Era. 3, no. 4 (December 2013.)

Editor. Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. Special Issue: Pass*ing. Co-editor, with John L. Jackson, Jr. 29, no. 1(Fall 2005.)

Expertise by Topic: American Civil War, Emancipation, Law, Race, Slavery, Women