Justin P. Jones

Justin P. Jones is an Atlantic World historian, focusing on questions of sovereignty, revolution, and slavery in the Americas. He is particularly interested using legal and environmental historical methodology to examine the ways that Free Blacks, Native Americans, and pirates/privateers challenged accepted notions of sovereignty in early nineteenth-century Florida, and how these challenges connected these groups to the wider Atlantic World. His supervisor is Dr. Jane Landers.

Jones is an avid practitioner and proponent of the digital humanities, especially the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and multimedia applications in historical research.

Jones has also researched in the Slave Societies Digital Archive, where he was part of the team, led by Jane Landers and Daniel Genkins, featured in Vanderbilt University’s Quantum Potential video series.

He has also served on the executive boards of Vanderbilt’s Organization of Black Graduate and Professional Students (OBGAPS) and Graduate History Association (GHA).

Jones earned a Bachelor’s degree in History and Spanish, with a minor in Portuguese from the University of Pittsburgh. While there, he also worked as a journalist and a writer on the podcast Dialogues in Afro-Latinidad, hosted by Professor Michele Reid-Vazquez.