History and African American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. Among his areas of specialization are race relations, the civil rights and black power era, race and American politics, African Americans in the "jazz age," and 20th-century African American culture. Jones is the author of The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee (Harvard University Press) and In Their Own Image: Artifacts from the Great Plains Black History Museum (Donning Company).