Martha S. Jones

Martha S. Jones
Born	New York, New York
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	Hunter College CUNY School of Law Columbia University
Doctoral advisor	Eric Foner
Academic work
Discipline	History Law
Institutions	Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts University of Michigan Johns Hopkins University
Website	http://marthasjones.com/

Martha S. Jones is an American historian and legal scholar. She is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She studies the legal and cultural history of the United States, with a particular focus on how Black Americans have shaped the history of American democracy. She has published books on the voting rights of African American women, the debates about women's rights among Black Americans in the early United States, and the development of birthright citizenship in the United States as promoted by African Americans in Baltimore before the Civil War.