G. Maris Jones, PhD

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Gillian Maris Jones, PhD, is an Afro-Indigenous scholar, creator, and traveler native to Bulbancha/New Orleans, Louisiana, and The Lucayan Archipelago/The Bahamas. After earning a BA in anthropology and Portuguese and Brazilian studies from Brown University, Dr. Jones served as an experiential environmental educator in Hawai’i, Alaska, and Portugal. With the support of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Dr. Jones completed a doctoral degree in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and earned graduate certificates in Africana studies, Latin American and Latinx studies, and experimental ethnography. Dr. Jones’s research, funded by the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, collaborates with coastal and island communities occupied by the United States Empire to utilize ethnography to explore climate vulnerability and adaptation. Dr. Jones’s dissertation, Archipelagoes of Aftermaths: Survivance, Imperialism, and Climate Change in New Orleans, Puerto Rico, and Hawai’i engages contemporary Black and Indigenous survival practices that were developed through the multigenerational transmission of knowledge to navigate the ongoing environmental and social aftermaths of hurricanes.

Education

• PhD, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
• BA, Anthropology and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University