He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2012. Prior to graduate school, he spent seven years working in the nonprofit and non-governmental sector, both in the United States and in Africa. His academic research is broadly concerned with the interweaving of economic action and everyday life. In his current project, Jones focuses on young, formally unemployed men living in an urban township near the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. He pays special attention to these youths’ experience of Zimbabwe’s record-breaking bout of hyperinflation and their strategies for making money in seemingly impossible circumstances.