faculty.

Peggy Jones, M.F.A.

Assistant Professor Office: ASH 184B Phone: 402.554.2996 majones@unomaha.edu MFA University of Nebraska-Lincoln BA University of Notre Dame

 

Administrative Responsibilities

Interim Department Chair

Malcolm X Festival Coordinator

 

Research Areas

Via multidisciplinary-based illustrated creative non-fiction (autoethnography), exploration of the intersections between language and the following:

1) Internal and external racial identity/White privilege

2) Socio-economic class and status

3) Media (mis)representations of AAE

 

Publications, Presentations, & Creative Activity

“Toward Achieving the ‘Beloved Community’: Lessons for Applied Business Research and Practice from the Teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr.” with Drs. James R. Jones at UNO and David C. Wilson at University of Delaware. [Status: submitted to special issue of Business & Society titled "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Contributions to Management Scholarship and Practice") Summer 2007.

“My Mother Tongue: A Linguistic Autoethnography,” for African American Women’s Language Conference, University of Texas-San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, March 2008.

“We are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For.” (2007) Culminating Arts Event for Urban Bush Women Summer Institute. Visual Designer, Artist, and Performer Brooklyn, NY.

“The Journey.” (2005) Staged reading of original play, Nicholas Street Gallery, Omaha, NE. Individual Artist Fellowship (2005) Nebraska Arts Council, $1000, received for writing the play, an artistic interpretation of how Aaron Douglas, first black graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln art department, decided to become an artist.

“2nd Annual African American Artists Exhibit.” (2007) Loves Jazz and Art Center, Omaha, NE.

“Solo Retrospective.” (2005) Nicholas Street Gallery, Omaha, NE.

 

Teaching

Black Aesthetics

Black American Culture

Introduction to Black Studies.