Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, BUFFALO, PhD (History) 2003
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, BUFFALO, M.A. (History) 1997
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, B.A. (History) 1993
I am a historian of the United States, with particular emphasis in American cultural and intellectual history and African American Studies, with strong interests in race and representation, Atlantic studies, and science studies. My research reflects my desire to contribute to the larger critical conversations taking place in these fields, specifically around the role of race in shaping American cultural and intellectual discourse and production. More precisely, my research examines the ways in which "race" as a popular and scientific category operated as a potent signifier of difference—cultural, biological, social, and political—in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America. However, recognizing the rising global significance of race as an organizing principle, as well as the transnational migration of ideas about race during this period (roughly the Gilded Age to the end of Word War II), my research extends across the Atlantic. It seeks to uncover the discursive relationship between America, other Western, and "subaltern" perspectives on imperialism, citizenship, and social belonging, as mediated primarily through the lens of race, but also through those of gender (ideas about femininity and masculinity), and sexuality.
EXPERTISE
U.S. Cultural and Intellectual
African American
Pre-Colonial Africa
COURSES TAUGHT
HIST - 306 - 001 - Fall 2010 - African American History: Africa Origins to 1877
HIST - 941 - 001 - Fall 2010 - American History to 1877
BOOKS
In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936 (Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2010).
http://www.ugapress.uga.edu/index.php/books/in_search_of_brightest_africa/
Jeannette Eileen Jones and Patrick B. Sharp, eds., Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality, Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies (New York and London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2010).
http://www.routledge.com/books/Darwin-in-Atlantic-Cultures-isbn9780415872348
Book Manuscript, Locating Lord Greystoke: Race, Empire, and the Congo Question, 1876-1917 (A Transatlantic Cultural and Intellectual History)
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Jeannette Eileen Jones and Patrick B. Sharp, "The Descent of Darwin" in Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Culture, Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies, eds. Jeannette Eileen Jones and Patrick B. Sharp (New York and London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2010), 1-7.
"Simians, Negroes, and the 'Missing Link': Transatlantic Evolutionary Debates on the 'Negro Question,'" in Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Culture, Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies, eds. Jeannette Eileen Jones and Patrick B. Sharp (New York and London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2010), 191-207.
"'In Brightest Africa': Naturalistic Constructions of Africa in the American Museum of Natural History, 1910-1936" in Images of Africa: Stereotypes and Realities, ed. Daniel Mengara, (New York: African World Press, 2001), 195-208. [in house editorial review]
JOURNAL ARTICLES
"'Gorilla Trails in Paradise': Carl Akeley, Mary Bradley, and the American Search for the Missing Link" Journal of American Culture 29:3 (September 2006): 321-336.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS IN PROGRESS
"'On the Brain of the Negro': Race, Abolitionism, and Friedrich Tiedemann's Scientific Discourse on the African Diaspora," in Blacks and Germans, German Blacks: Germany and the Black Diaspora, 1450-1914, eds. Mischa Honeck, Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov, and Martin Klimke [submitted June 22, 2010]
"'Brightest Africa' in the New Negro Imagination," in Escape from New York: The Harlem Renaissance Reconsidered, eds. Davarian Baldwin and Minkah Makalani [in progress]
