Mack H. Jones, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Dr. Mack Henry Jones Department of Political Science Clark Atlanta University
Currently retired as Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Clark Atlanta University, Professor Jones was born in Oakdale, Louisiana and attended public schools in that community. After two years at Southern University, Baton Rouge, La., he graduated from Texas Southern University in 1962 with a baccalaureate degree in political science. He earned the M.A. and Ph. D. degrees in political science from the University of Illinois in 1964 and 1968 respectively.
Professor Jones has had a distinguished career in higher education beginning as an assistant professor at Texas Southern in 1967. Since that time he has served on faculties at Atlanta University, Southern University, Howard University, Kentucky State University, Prairie View A & M University, Clark Atlanta University, Mississippi Valley State University, and Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, West Africa. He was a Fulbright lecturer at the latter institution. As chair of the political science department at Atlanta University from 1969 to 1983, he was responsible for developing the doctoral program in political science that became the largest producer of African American Ph.D. in the field. He also served as the director of the Delta Research and Cultural Institute at Mississippi Valley State University.
He is co-author of a popular text, African Americans and the American Political System now in its fourth edition. In 2014 SUNY Press published a collection of his essays titled Knowledge, Power, and Black Politics. His articles have appeared in a wide cross section of edited collections, scholarly journals, and magazines including, Daedalus, National Political Science Review, Social Science Quarterly, The Annals of the Academy of Social and Political Science, Review of Black Political Economy, Indian Political Science Review, and the Journal of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
He has held official positions in a variety of professional organizations including the National Conference of Black Political scientists of which he was the founding president.
