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

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Martha S. Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor at Johns Hopkins, will be in conversation with Nadia E. Brown, a professor of government and director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University, as part of the Humanities on the Hill series, hosted by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and East City Bookshop.

Martha S. Jones is a cultural-legal historian whose work examines how Black Americans have shaped the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. 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. 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, Jones was a public interest attorney in New York City.

Nadia E. Brown, who is also affiliated with the Black Studies Department at Georgetown University, is a founding board member of Women Also Know Stuff and one of the American politics editors at Good Authority. She is the immediate past lead editor of Politics, Groups, and Identities, a journal of the Western Political Science Association. 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 coeditor of nine books, including an American politics textbook and edited volumes on racial, ethnic politics and feminist studies.