James Jones

James Jones is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology department at Columbia University. His research focuses on examining the organizing role race plays in American democratic institutions and the mechanisms that produce and reproduce racial inequality within them. With support from the National Science Foundation, the Dirksen Congressional Center, and Columbia University, his dissertation is the first sociological study of racial inequality in the United States congressional workforce. He obtained his undergraduate degree at the George Washington University, where he majored in Political Science and minored in African American Studies and Sociology. He is a native of Philadelphia and a proud product of the city’s public schools.