Professor Margaret Jones
- she/her/hers
- School of Arts, Associate Professor
General Information
Biography
Peggy Jones, M.F.A. is an Associate Professor of Black Studies and Associate Director of the Women's and Gender Studies program at UNO. She is in the Humanities Nebraska Speakers Bureau and in the Nebraska Arts Council Artists Directory. Her research interests include intersections between language and identity. She received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council for her play, The Journey, about Aaron Douglas, the first black graduate from the art department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1922. It was performed in 2013 at the Rose Theater, and is scheduled for performance at UNO on 2/23/15 & UNMC on 2/27/15. She wrote a book chapter titled My Mother Tongue: A Linguistic Autoethnography in African American Women's Language: Discourse, Education and Identity. Her most recent publication is six essays in a catalog of paintings in the permanent collection of the Sheldon Art Museum in Lincoln, NE. Her most recent work produced was "Omaha's Forgotten Century," by Omaha Performing Arts as part of their Voices Amplified Series.
Teaching Interests
Black AestheticsBlack TheatreBlack Women PlaywrightsMedical HumanitiesWomen's & Gender Studies
Research Interests
Black AestheticsIntersections of language, gender and racial identityWhite privilegeMedia and African American language
Service Summary
Faculty Senate President May 2022-May 2023