William Powell Jones
Copy contact details to clipboardExpert on labor, race, and inequality in 20th century United States.
Associate professor, history
608-263-1784 (Work)
Home and cell phones available upon request.
William Powell Jones
Associate professor, history
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Expert on labor, race, and inequality in 20th century United States.
http://history.wisc.edu/people/faculty/jones.htm
wjones3@wisc.edu
608-263-1784 (work)
Home and cell phones available upon request; e-mail experts@uc.wisc.edu
Areas of expertise
- The United States since 1945
- Labor history, with particular expertise in public sector unions.
- African American history and the history of the civil rights movement
Notable achievements
- Member, American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians
- Author, "The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South."
- Vilas Associate Award, UW-Madison, 2009-2011
- Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2007-2008