Jeannette Jones, Happold Professor in the Department of History and the Institute for Ethnic Studies, is one of 19 scholars selected to contribute to the American Historical Review's 1619 Project Forum.
Her essay is "A Review of The 1619 Project and 1619education.org", under "Exploring 'American' Slavery". The emphasis of her research is in American cultural and intellectual history and African American Studies, with strong interests in race and representation, Atlantic studies, and science studies.
Jones is the author of In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936 and is currently writing America in Africa: U.S. Empire, Race, and the African Question, 1847-1919.
The American Historical Association (AHA) was founded in 1884 and chartered by Congress in 1889, and the AHR has been the journal of record for the historical profession in the United States since 1895. In the forum's introduction, editor Mark Philip Bradley and associate editor Fei-Hsien Wang explained that the journal could uniquely offer its global range to the larger discussion of The 1619 Project while inviting historians in fields underrepresented in the journal to engage.
