Antwan Jones
Title — Assistant Professor of Sociology
Office — Phillips 409C
Phone — 202-994-0266
E-mail — antwan@gwu.edu
Current Research
Professor Jones received a two-year Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant for the project, "Residential Instability and Adolescent Obesity: The Role of the Built Environment."
Professor Jones is selected as a 2011-2012 Policy Research Scholar at the George Washington Institute of Public Policy for the project, "Childhood Residential Stability and Health: The Role of Neighborhood Resources."
With Diana Grigsby-Toussaint (University of Illinois), Professor Jones received a publication grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to conduct a GIS spatial analysis of the areas around all childcare facilities in central Illinois to determine how the social and built environment elevates child obesity risk.
Education
Antwan Jones received his Ph.D. in sociology (2010) from Bowling Green State University, where he researched the role that socioeconomic status has in determining childhood overweight and childhood functional limitation over time.
Background
Trained as a social demographer, Professor Jones specializes in issues relating to race/ethnicity, social class and health. As an urban sociologist, he is particularly concerned about how socio-environmental processes (e.g., segregation and neighborhood change) affect health and well-being during various stages of the life course.
More information about Professor Jones can be found here.
Publications
2012. Jones, Antwan. Disability, Health and Generation Status. How Hispanics in the US Fare in Late Life. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 14(3): 467-474.
2011. Jones, Antwan. Income, Homeownership and Residential Assorting among Latinos in the US. Advances in Applied Sociology 1(1): 1-12.
2010. Jones, Antwan, Angelika Gulbis and Elizabeth H. Baker. Differences in Tobacco Use between Canada and the United States. International Journal of Public Health 55(3): 167-175.
2010. Jones, Antwan. Stability of Men's Interracial First Unions: A Test of Educational Differentials and Cohabitation History. Journal of Family and Economic Issues 31(2): 241-256.
2008. Jones, Antwan and Franklin Goza. Rural, Urban and Suburban Differences in Coronary Heart Disease among Blacks and Whites in the US. Journal of Biosocial Science 40(6): 895-909.
2006. Jones, Antwan. Race and the "I Have a Dream" Legacy: Exploring Predictors of Positive Civil Rights Attitudes. Journal of Black Studies 37(2): 193-208.
Classes Taught
SOC 1001: Introduction to Sociology (undergraduate level)
SOC 2169: Urban Sociology (undergraduate level)
SOC 2179: Race and Minority Relations (undergraduate level)