Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Happold Professor of History and Ethnic Studies, Director of the 19th Century Studies Program

Profile at UN-L | Contact: Jeannette-Eileen.Jones@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de

Duration of stay: May–July 2023 and June-July 2024 - event on 3 July 2024

Jeannette Eileen Jones is the Carl A. Happold Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is a historian of the United States, with expertise in American cultural and intellectual history, African American Studies, Pre-colonial African history, and digital humanities. She is the author of In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936 (Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2010). She is currently working on her second monograph, America in Africa: U.S. Empire, Race, and the African Question, 1821–1919, which is under advanced contract with Yale University Press. She is Co-PI on the digital project To Enter Africa from America: The United States, Africa, and the New Imperialism, 1862-1919 and Co-PI the Mellon Foundation funded project The US Law and Race Initiative.

During her stays in Regensburg, she is associated with the ScienceCampus and our partners at the Regensburg European-American Forum REAF at UR. During the 2023 summer semester she taught a seminar on Transatlantic Slavery and Abolition. On 3 July 2024, she will give a talk on "Microhistory & the US in the World: The Case of Dr. B.F. Wilson, 1865-1920" at 17:00 in S.214 (UR). All are welcome to join.