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DownloadFall 2024- Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stony Brook University
2022 -2024 Professor of Sociology, Department Chair, Farmingdale State College, SUNY
2021- 2022 Professor of Sociology, Farmingdale State College, SUNY
Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2017-2021 Associate Professor of Sociology, Farmingdale State College, SUNY
Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2011- 2017 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Farmingdale State College, SUNY
Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2010 Ph.D., Sociology, New School for Social Research
Dissertation: The Niagara Movement 1905-1910: Black Publics and the Making of Social Change
2006 M.A., Sociology, New School for Social Research
2005 B.A., Sociology, Queens College, CUNY
Forthcoming Books
2025 Black Lives Matter: A Reference Book, co-authored with Simone Durham, Bloomsbury
Most Recent Books
2024 Sex Work Today, with Barb Brents and Bernadette Barton, New York University Press
2023 African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Bloomsbury
2020 Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry . New York: New York University Press.
Articles
2025 The Black Feminist Erotic Imagination. Sex & Sexualities, Vol 1, inaugural issue, forthcoming
2025 Shaping Pleasure, Shifting Boundaries: A Roundtable on the Future of Porn Studies, with Alilunas, Peter, João Florêncio, and Susanna Paasonen, Porn Studies, January, 1–20.
2023 Black Feminist Uses of the Erotic: A TBS Roundtable, with Siobhan Brooks and Ariane Cruz, The
Black Scholar, Volume 53, 2023 - Issue 3-4: Edgeplay: Black Radical Pleasure II.
2023 Cisgendered Workspaces: Outright and Categorical Exclusion in Cisgendered Organizations, Social Problems.
2022 “I Can't Really Work Any ‘Normal’ Job:” Disability, Sexual Ableism, and Sex Work, forthcoming, Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol. 42.
2022 FOSTA: A Transnational Disaster Especially for Marginalized Sex Workers, forthcoming, International Journal of Gender, Sexuality, and Law.
2022 “Nothing About Us Without Us': An Interview on the Sex Worker Syllabus.” With, Heather Berg, PJ Patella-Rey, and Corrine Schwarz, Ethics & Social Welfare, 16 (2), forthcoming
2022 “People Need to Know We Exist!”: An Exploratory Study on the Labour Experiences of Transmasculine and Non-binary Sex Workers and Implications for Harm Reduction. Culture, Health, and Sexuality, forthcoming, online first, https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2021.2018500
2021 "It’s Hard Out Here For a Unicorn:” Transmasculine and Non-binary Escorts, Cissexism, Embodiment, and Workplace Inequalities, forthcoming, Gender & Society, 36(4).
2021 Cumming to a Screen Near You: Transmasculine and Non-binary People in the Camming Industry, Porn Studies, forthcoming,10.1080/23268743.2020.1757498
2020 Where The Trans Men and Enbies At?: Cissexism, Sexual Threat, and the Study of Sex Work, Sociology Compass, doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12750
2019 Sex is Not a Problem: The Erasure of Pleasure in Sexual Science Research. Sexualities, Vol. 22(4) 643–668.
2019 The Pleasures of Fetishization: BBW Erotic Webcam Performers, Empowerment, and Pleasure, Fat Studies. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society,Vol. 8(3): 279-298.
2022, American Sociological Association, Section on Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award for Camming
2021, Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association, Section on Sexualities Book Award for Camming
2020, CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, American Library Association for Camming
2020, Phenomenal Woman Award, Presented by FSC Student Life and Government
2018, FSC Center for Teaching and Learning, Innovative Pedagogy Award
2016, LGBTQ Scholarship and Politics After Marriage: A Conference Proposal, Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, American Sociological Association and National Science Foundation: $4,000 (awarded)
2016, Farmingdale State College, Title III, Students First Grant, $2,500 (awarded)
2014, SUNY, Explorations in Diversity and Academic Excellence Grant, $10,000 for W.E.B DuBois Faculty-Student Research Experience, Pilot UR Center (awarded)
2013, FSC Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award for the book African American Civil Rights
2013, Farmingdale State College, Title III, Students First Grant, $2,200
2012, SUNY, Explorations in Diversity Grant, $10,000 (awarded)
2010, SUNY, Faculty Cultural Diversity Award, $15,000 toward ongoing research.
Jones has been teaching for over seventeen years and has taught a wide range of courses:
In Africana Studies:
In Sociology :
In Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies