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. 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.*