T. Shacon Jones II

Shacon Jones II is an artist-scholar-activist and doctoral candidate in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies, with PhD minors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. His research interests focus on race, performance of masculinities, aesthetics of risk, pleasure, & funk, dance studies, and technology. Primarily interested in the Black male body in undervalued citizenship-making and life-sustaining practices, his dissertation examines mundane and spectacular choreographies of Black men engaged in radical pleasure in the United States and abroad. At Stanford, Shacon has served as a graduate fellow for the Black Community Service Center, Hope House Scholars Program, and the Haas Center for Public Service. Before coming to Stanford, he was a senior-level administrator for New Haven Public Schools and Bronx Community College. He hold a Certificate in Critical Consciousness and Anti-Oppressive Praxis from Stanford, a M.A. in Education from Stanford Graduate School of Education, an M.F.A. in Theatre Management and Producing from Columbia University, and a B.A. in English and Dance (double major) from Morehouse College. Outside of research and teaching, Shacon is involved in foster care advocacy and is pursuing certification as an intimacy consultant for live performance and TV/film.