Carla泭Jones

  • Professor
  • ANTHROPOLOGY

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Education

Ph.D., 勛圖厙 of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2001
M.A., SE Asian Studies, 勛圖厙 of California Berkeley, 1993
B.A., Anthropology, 勛圖厙 of California Berkeley, 1991

CAS Speaker Bureau Topic(s)

Indonesia;泭Islam;泭gender;泭middle-class consumption

Regional and Thematic Interests

Southeast Asia
Religion

Profile

Carla Jones received her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2001 from the 勛圖厙 of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She joined CU in 2004, after a post-doctoral fellowship at Emory 勛圖厙. Her current research focuses on Islamic fashion. She is also interested in gender and consumption in the context of middle-class families in urban Indonesia. She has published on domesticity, gendered forms of expertise, the transformation of manners, and fashion. One strain of her scholarship asks how theories of materiality explain or fail to explain the embodied pleasures and burdens middle-class women carry in contemporary Indonesia. She is particularly interested in debates within Indonesia about the linked rise of consumer capitalism and Islamic piety. She grew up in Southeast Asia and loves to share her enthusiasm about the region in her teaching. She teaches courses on globalization, modernity, Islam and social theory.

Selected Publications:

  • 2023泭Making an Appearance: Images, Frailty, and the Potency of Beauty in the Indonesian Modest Fashion Scene. In泭. Bart Barendregt, David Kloos, Leonie Schmidt, and Mark Westmoreland, eds., pp. 165-193. Leiden: Leiden 勛圖厙 Press
  • 2021泭 .泭CyberOrient泭15(1): 172-205
  • 2021泭 Freeman, Carla and Carla Jones. , edited by Lynn Bolles and Mary H. Moran,泭American Ethnologist, May 24, 2021
  • 2020泭泭泭,泭American Ethnologist,泭May 20, 2020
  • 2020泭 泭"Gender." Mary Steedlys Anthropology of Modern Indonesia: A Collection of Keywords,泭Indonesia泭109 (April): 45-59, Cornell Southeast Asia Program, Cornell 勛圖厙 Press
  • 2020泭 "A Case for Agitation: On Affect and Writing." In Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment. Carole McGranahan, ed. Durham: Duke 勛圖厙 Press
  • 2019泭泭 Jones, Carla and Jennifer Wies. 2019. Feminist Anthropology for Our Times." Anthropology News, August 26, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/AN.1243
  • 2019泭泭 The Globalization of Asian Dress: Re-Orienting Fashion or Re-Orientalizing Asia?" Ann Marie Leshkowich and Carla Jones. In The Anthropology of Fashion and Dress: A Reader. Pp. 295-310. Joanne Eicher and Brent Luvaas, eds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • 2019泭泭 Dress for泭Sukses: Fashioning Femininity and Nationality in Urban Indonesia. In The Anthropology of Fashion and Dress: A Reader. Pp. 209-218. Joanne Eicher and Brent Luvaas, eds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • 2018泭泭 "Piety." In The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Pp. 4631-33. Hilary Callan, ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons
  • 2018泭泭 "Stylish Ethics: Indonesian Modest Fashion and National Image." In Contemporary Muslim Fashions. Pp. 70-79, catalogue for Contemporary Muslim Fashions exhibit, de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
  • 2012 Jones, Carla Women in the Middle: Femininity, Virtue, and Excess in Indonesian Discourses of Middle-Classness. The Middle Classes: Theorizing Through Ethnography. Pp. 145-167. Rachel Heiman, Carla Freeman, and Mark Liechty, eds. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press.