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Jacqueline Jones

ジャクリーン・ジョーンズ

Jakurīn Jōnzu

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1948-06-17 （Delaware, U.S.）
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Delaware (origin) → Madison, Wisconsin (studies) → Massachusetts (Wellesley, Brandeis) → Providence, Rhode Island (Brown University) → Austin, Texas (University of Texas at Austin)

Career

Occupations
social historian, author, professor
Active Years
1976-
Affiliations
University of Texas at Austin (Walter Prescott Webb Chair / Ellen C. Temple Professor), Wellesley College (faculty), Brown University (faculty), Brandeis University (faculty)
Memberships
American Historical Association (past president), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (fellow)

Education

University of Delaware
Degree: B.A.
Period: 1966–1970
Year of Graduation: 1970
Country: United States
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Degree: Ph.D.
Period: 1970–1976
Year of Graduation: 1976
Country: United States

Awards

MacArthur Fellowship
1999
Organization: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Result: 受賞
Bancroft Prize
1986
Work: Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
Organization: Columbia University Libraries (awarding body)
Result: 受賞
Pulitzer Prize (History)
2024
Work: No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
Category: 歴史
Organization: Columbia University (Pulitzer Prize)
Result: 受賞
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
1992
Work: The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present
Organization: Choice (review)
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873

1980 history

A study of northern teachers in Georgia after the Civil War and their interactions with Black communities, based on primary sources.

educational historyReconstruction erarace relations

Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present

1985 social history / women's history

A landmark study analyzing Black women's work and family life from slavery to the present, integrating class and gender perspectives.

labor historywomen's historyrace and class

The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present

1992 social history

Examines the history of America's underclasses from the Civil War to the present, across boundaries of race and gender.

povertysocial classpolicy impact

American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor

1998 labor history

A four-century overview of labor in America that compares Black and white labor experiences.

workcomparative historyrace

Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical

2017 biography / history

A detailed biography of American radical and labor activist Lucy Parsons, exploring her life and ideas.

biographylabor movementradicalism

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

2023 social history / urban history 544 pages

A detailed reconstruction of the lives and struggles of Boston's free Black workers in the Civil War era that reshapes understandings of the city's abolitionist legacy.

urban historylabor historyrace and discrimination

Bibliography

  • Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873 (1980)
  • Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (1985)
  • The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present (1992)
  • American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor (1998)
  • A Social History of the Laboring Classes: From Colonial Times to the Present (1999)
  • Creek Walking: Growing Up in Delaware in the 1950s (2001)
  • Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War (2008)
  • A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America (2013)
  • Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical (2017)
  • No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era (2023)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
close use of primary sourcesfrequent use of case studiesscholarly yet accessible prose for general audiences
Recurring Motifs
workrace and classwomen's experiencesurban history

Legacy

Jacqueline Jones has significantly influenced American social history, especially studies of labor, race, and gender. Her scholarly yet accessible works have earned recognition beyond academia, including MacArthur Fellowship, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Academic Societies

  • American Historical Association
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Archives

  • University of Texas at Austin archives (holds related materials)

In Popular Culture

  • Appearances on C-SPAN and NPR

Quotes

  • "I think I will take time off in a few years, but I really like being here on campus, being around my colleagues, teaching."
    Source: Statement upon receiving MacArthur Fellowship (1999) (1999)

Trivia

  • Her father, Albert P. Jones, worked for DuPont and served as president of the Delaware State Board of Education.
  • She published a memoir, Creek Walking, about growing up in Delaware in the 1950s (2001).
  • She is married to political scientist and law professor Jeffrey Abramson and they have two daughters.
  • Won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History.