Joseph Jones

Associate Teaching Professor

Office: Washington Hall Rm 118
Phone: 757-221-1064
Email: [[jljones01]]
Areas of Specialization: Publicly engaged anthropology; skeletal biology w/focus on African diaspora biohistory and health; trace element and stable isotope analysis; histories of race and scientific racism

Background

My research focuses on descendant community engagement and bioarchaeology. Current projects focus on Jamestown, the historic First Baptist Church (Williamsburg, VA) and research and memorialization of Ancestral Human Remains from the East Marshall Street Well (Richmond, VA). I am co-author (with Alan Goodman and Yolanda Moses) of RACE: Are We So Different? (2020) and serve as associate director of the Institute for Historical Biology.

Education

2015 PhD, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Courses Taught

ANTH 150: Anthropology and Diverse Publics
ANTH 200: Contemporary Problems in Anthropological Perspective
ANTH 203: Introduction to Biological Anthropology
ANTH 350: Biocultural Perspectives on Health
ANTH 350: Nutritional Anthropology
ANTH 470/545: Human Osteology