Dr. Kimberly V. Jones is a historian of Afro-America and the Afro-Atlantic World. She was appointed as an assistant professor at the University of Denver in 2023, primarily teaching in areas of the Black Diaspora and histories of disability. Jones received her BA degrees in economics and history from the University of Missouri Saint Louis. After completing an MA in history at Eastern Illinois University, Dr. Jones earned her MA and PhD in History at Rice University with a graduate certificate in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Jones received the prestigious Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2022-20223) and the Citizens and Scholars WW Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies (2022). Her first upcoming full-length monograph, Critical Bodies: Disability and Slavery in Early Republic Virginia, contends with the overlapping histories of slavery, capitalism, and disability.
