Faculty

Yollette Jones
Senior Lecturer in History (part-time)
Associate Dean College of Arts and Science

PhD, Duke, 1985

African American and 20th Century American history; women and gender; race and visual culture

Telephone: 615-343-6170
Email: yollette.jones@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: M-F 9:00am-3:00pm by appointment.  Please call (615) 343-3141 for assistance.
Office: 311 Kirkland Hall

Yollette Jones is a historian of the African Diaspora experience, with a research emphasis upon race and visual culture.  She is currently at work on a book entitled “The Pictures Tell a Different Story: Images of African American Women in the Late Nineteenth Century.”  Jones teaches courses on African American history and race and visual culture.