Julia Jones Chaffers

Julia Jones Chaffers is a J.D./Ph.D. student focused on twentieth-century American history. Her primary interests include the history of school desegregation outside the American South, incorporating legal, cultural, and public history methodologies. 

Julia earned an M.A. in Public History and an M.A. in U.S. History & Politics from University College London as a Marshall Scholar. She graduated from Princeton University in 2022 with a B.A. in History and African American Studies. Julia’s thesis projects addressed the intertwined history of Confederate mascots and school desegregation across the U.S., as well as connections between football and Black identity in London. Her research on the Confederate mascot at a high school in Denver, Colorado, was published in The Colorado Magazine.