Grinnell College Associate Professor Stephanie Jones Receives $6,000 American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant
Stephanie Jones, associate professor of education, has received an American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant of $6,000 for her project, “Mapping Racialized Trauma: A Critical Race Spatial Analysis of Counter Cartographic Narratives of Race and Racism in Schools.” Jones is an established expert in the ways that K-12 education perpetuates racialized trauma. She is currently working on a book on racial trauma, educational inequities, and critical spatial analysis. This funding will allow Jones to conduct archival research to gather the narratives of students who experienced racialized trauma in the wake of school desegregation in the 1960s and 1970s.
“I am pleased to receive this grant from the American Philosophical Society, as it provides greater opportunity to take a deeper dive into my research of understanding racialized trauma by hearing individuals stories firsthand,” shared Jones.
Jones’s research strands examine Black women’s literacy practices and the exploration of racialized trauma in school curriculums. She is part of the inaugural cohort of Associated Colleges of the Midwest Mellon Faculty Fellows and was recently awarded the STAR fellowship through the Literacy Research Association. She is working on a forthcoming manuscript about the intersections of surveillance, curriculum violence, and racialized trauma. In addition to her academic duties as a teacher educator and researcher, Jones consults with school districts and other educational organizations on building anti-racist curriculums and pedagogies. To learn more about Jones and her work visit www.drstephjones.com.
Since 2008, 12 Grinnell College faculty members have received a Franklin Grant, including:
- Tammy Nyden (Philosophy, 2008)
- Ed Cohn (History, 2015)
- Brigittine French (Anthropology, 2016)
- Gemma Sala (Political Science, 2018)
- Catherine Chou (History, 2019)
- Sharon Quinsaat (Sociology, 2019)
- Dustin Dixon (Classics, 2020)
- Patrick Inglis (Sociology, 2020)
- Mark Laver (Music, 2020)
- Sejal Sutaria (English, 2020)
- Logan Lee (Economics, 2021)
- Stephanie Jones (Education, 2022)