Faculty Mentor

Professor Jennifer Jones began teaching at Rutgers in 1991 after studying at Grinnell College as an undergraduate and pursuing her Ph.D. in European history at Princeton. She specializes in 18th-century France and women’s history.  She regularly teaches courses on the history of fashion and design in Europe (510:232)  and on the French Revolution (510:333), among other topics.  Her first book is Sexing la Mode: Gender, Fashion and Commercial Culture in Old Regime France.  She is currently completing a book on Thérèse Levasseur, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s mistress. And she has just begun a new project on fashion and design schools in 20th-century New York City, and how they empowered a generation of female entrepreneurs and businesswomen in the fashion industry.