Wilson College

Douglas A. Jones, Jr. is the Cotsen Fellow in the Study of Race and Ethnicity in the Princeton Society of Fellows. At Princeton, he also holds appointments in the Department of English and the Center for African American Studies. Douglas’ primary research interests include the cultural and literary history of the early national and antebellum United States, the history and historiography of slavery, and theories of race and performance. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, essays, and reviews. His most recent publication, “An Ambivalent Beginning: Slavery, Performance, and the Design of African American Theatre,” is the opening essay in the forthcoming collection, The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre (Harvey Young, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2012). In 2011-2012, Douglas will teach “The Drama of Making America” (Fall 2011, ENG 353) and “Slavery and American Culture” (Spring 2012, Freshman Seminar.)

Douglas earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University where his dissertation, “The ‘Common Sense’ of Slavery: Race, Performance, and a ‘Peculiar’ America, 1817-1861” won the Wendell Cole Prize for Distinguished Dissertation.