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Joey Jennings is a Part-Time Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at George Washington University and a Sociology Doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland-College Park. His research critically examines race, colorism, intersectionality, and resistance, with a dissertation focusing on enslaved resistance through runaway advertisements from the colonial era.
His research unpacks three core dimensions: historical documentation of skin color terminology, enslaver valuations of skin-color variations, and gendered resistance patterns. Jennings teaches courses on Race and Minority Relations and Introduction to [Black] Sociology, emphasizing student creativity and intellectual curiosity. He received the 2019 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for his scholarly work.
Additional professional experience includes roles as a Research Intern with Brookings Institution's Valuing Black Assets Initiative and Research Consultant at Black Onyx Management. His publications analyze colorism processes in slavery, colonial freedom movements, and contemporary implications of affirmative action.
