Jennifer A. Jones, Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Jennifer Jones is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and a concurrent faculty member in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty at UIC, Jones was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame and a Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Latino Studies. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Ohio State University in the Department of Sociology as a Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity Fellow, and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Specializing in race and ethnicity, immigration, political sociology, Latinx studies, and Latin America and the Caribbean, Jones’ recent work can be found in such journals as The American Journal of Sociology, American Behavioral Scientist, International Migration Review, Contexts, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Latino Studies. Jones's first monograph, The Browning of the New South, was published with the University of Chicago Press in 2019.
Specializing in race and ethnicity, immigration, political sociology, Latinx studies, and Latin America and the Caribbean, Jones’ recent work can be found in such journals as The American Journal of Sociology, American Behavioral Scientist, International Migration Review, Contexts, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Latino Studies. Jones's first monograph, The Browning of the New South, was published with the University of Chicago Press in 2019.
