Humanities on the Hill: Martha S. Jones with Nadia E. Brown

A conversation about Professor Jones's new book, Vanguard: How Black Women Overcame Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All.

Q&A, reception and book signing to follow.

Martha S. Jones is a cultural-legal historian whose work examines how Black Americans have shaped the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor at Johns Hopkins University, she is a prize-winning historian of books that include Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America and Vanguard: How Black Women Overcame Barrier, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. Dr. Jones has served as co-president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and vice-president of the Law and Humanities Interdisciplinary Workshop. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Jones was a public interest attorney in New York City. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Nadia E. Brown (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is a Professor of Government, director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and affiliate in the Black Studies department at Georgetown University Dr. Brown is a founding board member of Women Also Know Stuff. She is also one of the American politics editors at Good Authority. Professor Brown is the immediate past lead editor of Politics, Groups, and Identities a journal of the Western Political Science Association. Professor Brown and colleagues Elizabeth Sharrow, Stella Rouse, and Rebecca Gill are the recipients of a $1 million National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program for their project “#MeTooPoliSci Leveraging A Professional Association to Address Sexual Harassment in Political Science” which seeks to stop sexual harassment in the discipline. She is the author of the award-winning Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance of Black Women Political Elites (with Danielle Lemi, Oxford University Press, 2021) and co-editor of 9 books including an American politics textbook and edited volumes on racial, ethnic politics and feminist studies.

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