Adrienne Jones, J.D., Ph.D.
Adrienne Jones, PhD, JD, is an assistant professor of political science at Morehouse College and director of the Morehouse College Pre-Law Program. She earned her JD from the University of California at Berkeley and her Ph.D. from the City University of New York. Adrienne teaches Constitutional Law, Race and Law and National Government. Jones’ research focuses on historical and contemporary struggles over voting rights. Her article & When Yes Means No: GOP Congressional Strategy and the Reauthorization of the VRA in 2006 & was published in The Forum (July 2018) and PSQ,: Political Science Quarterly, published her article on U.S. Presidential “counter enforcement” of the Voting Rights Act (Summer 2021). Adrienne previously served as a fellow in the Institute for Research and Civil Engagement and Policy at the Center. In her first year as a fellow Adrienne revised and wrote the previously mentioned articles; interviewed Presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg; published an op-ed on the Georgia primary election in The Conversation; and spoke about voting rights on various news outlets, academic and lay panels. In her most recent Civil Engagement Fellowship, Adrienne began work on an article on the Supreme Court and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; moderated a campus symposium on elections, Moral and Political Dimensions of this High Stakes Election: A Morehouse College Leadership Roundtable, a discussion with Dr. Robert M. Franklin, Steven L. Reed, and the Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock; and wrote op-eds and spoke publicly about the electoral process. Adrienne also began her work in prison education. During the summer 2020 Dr. Jones taught a “pandemic” prison correspondence course in American Government for the Minnesota state DOC. Adrienne subsequently joined the JAMII Sisterhood Board and used that opportunity to engage with experts in the field of prison education. Recently, in conjunction with the AYGCL Prison Initiative, Adrienne made an application for Morehouse College to Jamii’s Project Freedom’ Faculty Prison Education Program. Project Freedom is designed to assist the development of prison education at HBCUs and is associated with the Laughing Gull Foundation. The fellowship will provide curriculum training and support to the Morehouse College Prison Initiative to support financially sustainable, human focused prison education programs that will allow Morehouse to effectively serve the education interests and needs of incarcerated Georgians.