Jacqueline Jones is the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History, Ideas and Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, which she also currently chairs. Her research focuses on the social history of the Confederate States of America and the the American South from 1861 to 1941. She has received numerous accolades, including a MacArthur Fellowship (1999-2004); the Bancroft Prize in American History: Taft Prize in Labor History; the Spruill Prize in Southern Women’s History; the Brown Publication Prize in Black Women’s History; and is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. Her most recent book, A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America was named one of the 100 best books of 2013 by The New York Times.
Jacqueline Jones
