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Shatima J. Jones, PhD
Shatima J. Jones is a sociologist of race and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. She is an ethnographer, public scholar, and artist who is interested in identity formation at the intersection of race, space, gender, and culture. Dr. Jones’s book, Headmasters of Brooklyn: Blackness and Brotherhood at the Barbershop (University of California Press, forthcoming) focuses on how Black working class men interpret and perform their racial identity, the processes by which they create community given these understandings, and the significance of place and space in shaping these sentiments.
Dr. Jones was editor of “A Seat At Our Table” for Confluence. She was awarded NYU’s inaugural James Weldon Johnson Distinguished Faculty Award and was also an NYU Public Voices Fellow. Shatima recently created an exhibition, Crowned Heights, that reconstructed Brooklyn, a Black barbershop and beauty salon, and her classroom to celebrate a decade of teaching (De)Tangling the Business of Black Women’s Hair. She has organized numerous scholarly events, provided commentary at a slew of speaking engagements, and has been quoted in the media.
