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Naya Jones
Assistant Professor & Core Faculty in Global and Community Health Program
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Social Sciences Division
Sociology Department
Assistant Professor & Core Faculty in Global and Community Health Program
Faculty
Environmental Studies Department
Regular Faculty
African Diaspora
African American / Black Studies
Environmental Studies
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Latin American and Latino Studies
Social Justice
Rachel Carson College Academic Building
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Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Primary Care Research - Medical College of Wisconsin
PhD, Geography & the Environment - University of Texas at Austin
MA, Latin American Studies - University of Texas at Austin
Black geographies of health and healing (especially North and Latin America); Black ecologies; spirituality and the environment; relational approaches to Black, Latinx, and Indigenous geographies; human-plant relations; botanical medicine; healing justice; critical pedagogies; somatic or embodied pedagogies; autoethnography and testimonio; arts-based methods.
Selected Recent Awards/Grants
2023-2024 | Excellence in Teaching Award (UC Santa Cruz - Academic Senate's Committee on Teaching)
2021-2022 | Sprout Grant (UCSC Institute for Social Transformation)
2020-2021 | Anne S. Chatham Fellowship for Medicinal Botany (Garden Club of America)
2020-2021 | Folk Arts Apprenticeship Grant w/ Ms. Angela Smith (Wisconsin Arts Board)
2017-2020 | Culture of Health Leader (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
- Jones, N. 2023. "We Were Dreamt: Reflections on Black Dreaming as a Liberatory Practice." The Arrow. Access >>
- Jones, N. 2023. "Reimagining Freire: Beyond Human Relations." Cultural Studies of Science Education, 18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-023-10154-7
- Hirsch, L. and Jones, N. 2021. "Incontestable: Imagining Possibilities through Intimate Black Geographies." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Access >>
- Jones, N. 2021. "Prologue: Black Dream Geographies." Part of themed intervention in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Access>>
- Jones, N. 2020. "Intervention: Corner Stores, Surveillance, and All Black Afterlives." In Antipode Online. Open Access>>
- Jones, N. 2019. "Dying to Eat? Black Food Geographies of Slow Violence and Resilience." In ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 18 (5), 1076-99. Open Access>>
- Cotter, E, and Jones, N. 2019. "Review of Latino/Latinx Participants in Mindfulness-Based Intervention Research." Mindfulness, 11.
- Thomas, KD and Jones, N. 2019. "Critical Reflexivity: Teaching About Race and Racism in the Advertising Classroom." Advertising & Society Quarterly, 20 (2).
- Jones, N. 2018. "'It Tastes Like Heaven”: Critical Food Pedagogy with Black Youth in the Anthropocene." In Policy Futures in Education, 17(7), 905-923.
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