Faculty Guide

Title

Adjunct Professor of History

History

Expertise

My field is American social history, with specialties in African-American, labor, and southern history.

Profile

My scholarly work has progressed through various stages; but my focus on African-American history, and the history of the laboring classes, has remained constant. My first book (1980) examined the teachers of the Georgia freedpeople in the period immediately after the Civil War (1865-1873). My next study (1985) was an examination of black working women from slavery to the present. I have also looked at patterns of poverty in the South and North, from the antebellum period to the present, with an emphasis on labor turnover and internal migration (1992). A book published in 1998 considered the social division of labor in America, from the colonial period to the present. My short history of the laboring classes was published in 1999. More recent projects have included a major American history textbook (2002), a memoir of my childhood in Delaware in the 1950s (2001), and a history of Savannah, Georgia, during the Civil War era.. This last work will be published in the fall of 2008.

Awards and Honors

Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians (ongoing) (2002)

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)

MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1999 - 2004)

History Book Club Selection (American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor) (1997 - 1998)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1994 - 1995)

Choice Outstanding Academic Book (The Dispossessed) (1992)

E. Merton Coulter Award, Georgia Historical Society ("Encounters, Likely and Unlikely, Between Black and Poor White Women") (1992)

Finalist, Lillian Smith Award for non-fiction (The Dispossessed) (1992 - 1993)

Clare Boothe Luce Visiting Professor, Brown University (1988 - 1990)

Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy (Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow (1986)

Fellow, Society of American Historians (1986)

Brown Memorial Publication prize for the best work in black women's history, Association of Black Women Historians (1985 - 1988)

Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for History (1985 - 1988)

Gustavus Myers Center Prize for Best Book on Racial Intolerance (1985)

Julia Spruill Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians (1985 - 1988)

Philip Taft Award in Labor History (1985 - 1988)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1979 - 1980)

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1979 - 1980)

American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid (1977)

Alice Smith Fellowship, State Historical Society of Wisconsin (1975 - 1976)

American Association of University Women Fellowship (1974)

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1974 - 1975)

Ford Foundation Fellowship (1970 - 1972)

Scholarship

Jones, Jacqueline. ""Savannah's Confederate Project: Forging an Alliance Between Elites and the White Laboring Classes in the Civil War Era"." THE ATLANTIC WORLD AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIFE IN THE GEORGIA LOWCOUNTRY. Ed. Philip Morgan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009 (forthcoming)

Jones, Jacqueline. ""Shifting Pardigms of Black Women's Work in the Urban North, World War II to the Present"." AFRICAN-AMERICAN URBAN HISTORY SINCE WORLD WAR ii: THE DYNAMICS OF RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER. Ed. Joe William Trotter and Kenneth Kusmer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009 (forthcoming)

Jones, Jacqueline. "SAVING SAVANNAH: THE CITY AND THE CIVIL WAR." 2009 <Alfred A. Knopf>. (forthcoming)

Jones, Jacqueline, Peter Wood, Elaine Tyler May, Thomas Borstelmann, Vicki Ruiz. CREATED EQUAL: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Third ed. New York: ABLongman, 2008.

Jones, Jacqueline. ""All Educational Politics are Local: New Perspectives on Black Schooling in the Postbellum South"." RETHINKING THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION. Ed. John Rury and William Reese. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Jones, Jacqueline, ed., ed. THE BEST AMERICAN HISTORY ESSAYS, 2007. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Jones,Jacqueline with P.H. Wood, T Borstelman, E. T. May and V. Ruiz. New editions of CREATED EQUAL: A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES) Second edition Brief Edition, Advanced Placement Edition. ABLongman, 2004.

Jones,Jacqueline. "Writing Women's History: What's Feminism Got to do with?" in Judith Pinch, et al., eds, EXPLORING WOMEN'S STUDIES: LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK. Prentice Hall, 2004.

Jones,Jacqueline, Co-authors: Peter H. Wood, Elaine Tyler May, Thoma. Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States. Pearson Education, 2003.

Jones,Jacqueline. Creek Walking: Growing Up in Delaware in the 1950s. University of Delaware Press, 2001.

Jones,Jacqueline. A Social History of the Laboring Classes: From Colonial Times to the Present. Boston & London: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.

Jones,Jacqueline. American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor. W.W. Norton, 1998.

Jones,Jacqueline. The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses, from the Civil War to the Present. Basic Books, 1992.

Jones,Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family From Slavery to the Present. Basic Books, 1985.

Jones,Jacqueline. Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873. University of North Carolina Press, 1980.