Biography
Angela Jones is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. Jones's research interests include African American political thought and protest, sex work, race, gender, sexuality, feminist theory, Black feminisms, and queer methodologies and theory.
Jones is an award-winning teacher and writer. Jones is a recent winner of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.
Jones is currently working on a mainstream trade monograph under contract with the legacy feminist press Seal Press. It is tentatively entitled Sex Lives: Erotic Power and the Social Life of Sexuality (See Erotic Power to learn more).
Jones is the author of Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Industry (NYU Press, 2020) and African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement (Praeger, 2011). They are a co-editor of Sex Work Today: Erotic Labor in the 21st Century (NYU Press, 2024). Jones is also a co-editor of the three-volume After Marriage Equality book series (Routledge, 2018). Jones has also edited two other anthologies: The Modern African American Political Thought Reader: From David Walker to Barack Obama (Routledge, 2012), and A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias (Palgrave, 2013). Jones is the author of African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment, published in 2023, and a forthcoming book, Black Lives Matter: A Reference Handbook both with Bloomsbury. They are also the author of scholarly articles, which have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Social Problems, Gender & Society; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Sexualities; Disability Studies Quarterly; Porn Studies; International Journal of Gender, Sexuality, and Law; Culture, Health, and Sexuality; Sociology Compass; Fat Studies. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society; Sexuality and Culture; Sociological Focus; The Journal of Historical Sociology; and Interalia: a Journal of Queer Studies. Jones also writes for public audiences and has published articles in venues such as Contexts (digital), The Conversation, the Nevada Independent, Peepshow Magazine, PopMatters, and Salon.