Amelia Jones
| Amelia Jones | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 14, 1961 Durham, North Carolina, United States |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Art history Performance Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory |
| Institutions | University of Southern California McGill University University of Manchester |
| Alma mater | UCLA, 1991 |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2000) |
Amelia Jones (born July 14, 1961) is an American art historian, art critic and curator specializing in feminist art, body/performance art, video art and Dadaism.
Amelia Jones, the daughter of Virginia S. Jones and Princeton Psychology professor Edward E. Jones, studied art history at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD from UCLA in 1991.
Jones has taught art history at UC Riverside, was formerly the Pilkington Chair of the art history department at the University of Manchester, where she taught for 6 1/2 years, then the Grierson Chair in Visual Culture at McGill University in Montreal for 4 1/2 years. She has also worked as a visiting professor at Maine College of Art, Texas Christian University, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Washington University, St. Louis
She is currently the Robert A. Day Chair in Art and Design at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California, where she is also Vice-Dean of Critical Studies, and in addition is affiliated faculty in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. In 2015, seven students withdrew from the school's MFA program, accusing the school's administration of "dismantling" the faculty, curriculum, program structure and strong support for graduate studies that had been hallmarks of the program. That conflict is ongoing.
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