Jacqueline Jones is Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. She is an expert in American social history in addition to writing on economics , women, and class. Born in Delaware, Dr. Jones was the daughter of the head of the Delaware state school board and attended an elementary school now named for her father. She previously held academic positions at Wellesley College, Brown University and Brandeis University. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison,... which she obtained in 1976 after spending time at the University of Delaware. In July 1999 Dr. Jones was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Although she could have used this grant to take time off from her teaching, she decided to wait to begin her research and work through the grant, saying, "I think I will take time off in a few years, but I really like being here on campus, being around my colleagues, teaching.
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