Amelia Jones has contributed significantly to the study of art and performance as a teacher, researcher, and activist.
18 Facts About Amelia Jones
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Amelia Jones is the daughter of Virginia Sweetnam Jones and Edward E Jones, a Princeton Psychology professor.
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Amelia Jones's dissertation was later turned into a published book, Postmodernism and the Engendering of Marcel Duchamp.
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On March 7,1987, Amelia Jones married Anthony Sherin, a film editor.
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Amelia Jones has two children, Evan and Vita, from her first marriage.
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Amelia Jones has taught art history at University of California, Riverside and the University of Manchester, where she served as the Pilkington Chair of the department.
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Amelia Jones served as the Grierson Chair in Visual Culture at McGill University in Montreal and has held visiting professorships at Maine College of Art, Texas Christian University, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Washington University in St Louis.
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Amelia Jones is currently the Robert A Day Professor and Chair of Critical Studies at the USC Roski School of Art and Design, where she serves as Vice Dean of Research.
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Amelia Jones is affiliated faculty in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
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Amelia Jones is independently organizing a retrospective exhibition on the work of American performance artist Ron Athey.
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Amelia Jones has challenged most authoritative voices for insistently promoting a straight white-male perspective.
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Amelia Jones's work is committed to representing artists who are women, queer or people of color.
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Amelia Jones is the author and editor of numerous books and anthologies on art history, performance studies, queer studies, and visual culture.
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Amelia Jones currently serves as co-editor of the Manchester University Press series Rethinking Art's Histories with Martha Meskimmon.
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Amelia Jones has edited A Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945, a collection of art history and criticism by contributors who write on such topics as technology, formalism, public space, diasporas, culture wars, the avant-garde, and the society of the spectacle.
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Amelia Jones has been recognized for her progressive work with feminist ideas.
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Amelia Jones was award the Distinguished Feminist Award in 2015 which honors art, scholarship, or advocacy advancing the cause of equality for women in the arts.
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Amelia Jones received a few awards prior that acknowledge her success as an art historian and feminist activist.