2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-0340
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: hjones@umd.edu

           Hilary Jones is Assistant Professor of West Africa and Africa Diaspora. Her research interests include nineteenth century Africa, French colonialism, the francophone Atlantic, histories of power and politics and women, race and class. She is currently preparing a manuscript entitled, The Métis of Senegal: Urban Life, Politics and French Colonialism in Nineteenth Century Africa. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-Hays, The Center for African and Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan, Africana Studies at University of Notre Dame, and University of Maryland’s Graduate School.

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