Featured PhD Minor Student: Shacon Jones II

Shacon Jones II is an artist-scholar-activist and doctoral candidate in TAPS. Focusing on the Black male body in undervalued citizenship-making and life-sustaining practices, his dissertation employs ethnographic methods to examine mundane and spectacular choreographies of Black men engaged in radical pleasure in the U.S. and abroad. Shacon has been a graduate fellow for the Black Community Service Center, Stanford Arts Institute, Hope House Scholars Program, and the Haas Center for Public Service. Prior to Stanford, he was a senior-level administrator for New Haven Public Schools and Bronx Community College. He is also involved in foster case advocacy and is pursuing certification as an intimacy consultant for live performance and TV/film.