Eric T. Jones is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies (AAADS) and the Black Humanities in the Midwest Africana Studies Research Center (BHIM) at Indiana University. Jones’s research interests span Environmental Justice, the Medical Civil Rights Movement, the History of Medicine, and Science, Technology, and Society. He is currently a contributing writer for Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal at Columbia University. Jones was previously a graduate student researcher in the Race, Medicine, and Social Justice research cluster at the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice at Brown University.
His current project is a transdisciplinary case study of United States Steel’s Clairton Coke Works, examining how the steel industry leverages both scientific uncertainty and the political economy to obscure an ongoing environmental health crisis within the Monongahela (Mon) Valley of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s industrial corridor. Jones received his B.A. in Communication and Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, his M.A. in Religious Studies at Howard University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Africana Studies at Brown University.
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