Jeremy Jones
Associate Professor, Director, Africana Studies
Biography
Jeremy L. Jones received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2012. Prior to graduate school, he spent seven years working in the non-profit and non-governmental sector, both in the US and in Africa. His academic research is broadly concerned with the interweaving of economic action and everyday life. In his current project, Jeremy 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.
From 2013-14, Jeremy taught a senior seminar on the Informal Economy in Africa (ANTH 399-01), which examined the nature of "informality" and its ramifications for broader social and political trends in Africa. In addition, he also taught The Anthropological Perspective (ANTH 101-02) and a mid-level course on the anthropology of contemporary Africa.
Publications
Jones, J. L. (2010). "Freeze! Movement, Narrative and the Disciplining of Price in Hyperinflationary Zimbabwe." Social Dynamics 36(2): 338-351.
DOI:10.1080/02533951003794332
Jones, J. L. (2010). "'Nothing Is Straight in Zimbabwe': The Rise of the Kukiya-Kiya Economy 2000-2008."Journal of Southern African Studies 36(2): 285-299.
DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2010.485784