Oct 15
Fall Lefler Lecture - Dr. Jennifer Dominique Jones
Jennifer Dominique Jones is an Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Her areas of research and teaching expertise are Black Queer History, Black Feminist History, African American History after 1877, with a focus on politics and social life and the History of Gender and Sexuality in the United States in the Twentieth Century with a focus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) politics and community life. She is the author of Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality After World War II (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). Ambivalent Affinities was a finalist for the 2024 LGBTQ+ Studies Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation (for the best academic book in LGBTQ+ Studies) and received an honorable mention for the 2024 James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians (for the best book in the history of race relations).