2024-25 Faculty Fellow
About
Jennifer Dominique Jones is a Black feminist historian whose research interests include Black queer history, Black women’s history, the history of sexuality, and postwar American political history. Her first book, Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality After World War II (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) examines the emergence of complex and contradictory political narratives about LGBTQ+ rights and Black civil rights. Ambivalent Affinities received an honorable mention for the 2024 James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians and is a finalist for the 2024 LGBTQ+ Studies Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation.
During her fellowship, Professor Jones will work on two book manuscripts: "The (In)Visible Acquisitions of Ann Allen Shockley," a biography of a Black lesbian feminist writer/archivist, and "Circuits of Intimacy: Networks of Sociality and Care in Black Michigan Communities, 1916-1976," a queer history of Black Michigan communal life.
