Johns Hopkins SAIS to host Martha S. Jones, acclaimed author, historian, and Johns Hopkins professor, for a virtual conversation with Dean Eliot Cohen on March 18

Johns Hopkins SAIS Dean Eliot A. Cohen will host Martha S. Jones, acclaimed author, historian, and Johns Hopkins University Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, for the Dean’s Speaker Series on Thursday, March 18. Jones, who also directs the Hard Histories at Hopkins project which was launched in 2020, will join Cohen to discuss the project’s research examining the role that racism and discrimination have played at Johns Hopkins, including the recent discovery that the university's founder, Johns Hopkins, was a slave owner.
 

Eliot A. Cohen 

Dean, Johns Hopkins SAIS

 

Martha S. Jones

Author

Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, Professor at the SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University

Thursday, March 18, 2021

1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. ET

This virtual event is open to the public and media, with registration.

Jason Lucas 

Communications Manager

Johns Hopkins SAIS

+1 (202) 663-5620

 

Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, professor of History, and a professor at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how Black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy. Jones has written for The Atlantic, Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times, Public Books, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Time, USA Today, and Washington Post. In 2020, she helped to launch the Hard Histories at Hopkins Project that blends research, teaching, public engagement and the creative arts to examine the role that racism and discrimination have played at Johns Hopkins. 

 

An acclaimed author, Jones wrote Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, which was selected as one of Time's 100 2020 list of must-read books. Her 2018 book, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, won the Organization of American Historians' Liberty Legacy Award, the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Prize, the American Society for Legal History's John Phillip Reid Book Award, and the Baltimore City Historical Society's Scholars honor for 2020. Jones also wrote All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 and served as co-editor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women.

 

Jones is an immediate past co-president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and currently serves on the boards of the Society of American Historians, National Women's History Museum, U.S. Capitol Historical Society, Johns Hopkins University Press, Journal of African American History, and Slavery & Abolition. She is also an exhibition curator for “Reframing the Color Line” and “Proclaiming Emancipation” at the William L. Clements Library and an expert consultant for museum, film, and video productions with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Charles Wright Museum of African American History, PBS's "American Experience", the Southern Poverty Law Center, Netflix, and France-based Arte.

The Dean’s Speaker Series is the highest profile speaker series at Johns Hopkins SAIS. The series will host a diverse array of prominent international affairs practitioners and business leaders for insightful perspectives and thought-provoking discussions on international relations, leadership and other relevant topics that impact our focus areas. This fall will feature distinguished experts around themes such as American Foreign Policy and the 2020 Election, International Order after Coronavirus, Targets of Opportunity in the Global Arena, and Race Relations, Civic Engagement and Global Social Movements. All events require pre-registration and are free and open to the public.

A division of Johns Hopkins University, the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a global institution that offers students an international perspective on today's critical issues. For more than 75 years, Johns Hopkins SAIS has produced great leaders, thinkers, and practitioners of international relations. Public leaders and private sector executives alike seek the counsel of the faculty, whose ideas and research inform and shape policy. Johns Hopkins SAIS offers a global perspective across three campus locations: Bologna, Italy; Nanjing, China; and Washington, D.C. The school's interdisciplinary curriculum is strongly rooted in the study of international economics, international relations, and regional studies, preparing students to address multifaceted challenges in the world today. 

 

For more information, visit sais.jhu.edu or on Twitter @SAISHopkins

 

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