Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2001
M.A., SE Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley, 1993
B.A., Anthropology, University of California Berkeley, 1991
CAS Speaker Bureau Topic(s)
Indonesia;聽Islam;聽gender;聽middle-class consumption
Regional and Thematic Interests
Southeast Asia
Religion
Profile
Carla Jones received her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2001 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She joined CU in 2004, after a post-doctoral fellowship at Emory University. 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聽鈥淢aking an Appearance: Images, Frailty, and the Potency of Beauty in the Indonesian Modest Fashion Scene.鈥� In聽. Bart Barendregt, David Kloos, Leonie Schmidt, and Mark Westmoreland, eds., pp. 165-193. Leiden: Leiden University Press
- 2021聽 鈥�.鈥澛燙yberOrient聽15(1): 172-205聽
- 鈥�2021聽 Freeman, Carla and Carla Jones. 鈥�,鈥� edited by Lynn Bolles and Mary H. Moran,聽American Ethnologist, May 24, 2021
- 2020听听听鈥�,鈥澛燗merican Ethnologist,聽May 20, 2020聽
- 2020聽 聽"Gender." 鈥淢ary Steedly鈥檚 Anthropology of Modern Indonesia: A Collection of Keywords,鈥澛�滨苍诲辞苍别蝉颈补听109 (April): 45-59, Cornell Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University Press
- 2020聽 "A Case for Agitation: On Affect and Writing." In Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment. Carole McGranahan, ed. Durham: Duke University Press
- 2019聽聽 Jones, Carla and Jennifer Wies. 2019. 鈥淔eminist Anthropology for Our Times." Anthropology News, August 26, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/AN.1243
- 2019聽聽 鈥淭he 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聽聽 鈥淒ress for聽Sukses: Fashioning Femininity and Nationality in Urban Indonesia.鈥� In The Anthropology of Fashion and Dress: A Reader. Pp. 209-218. Joanne Eicher and Brent Luvaas, eds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing
- 2018聽聽 "Piety." In The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Pp. 4631-33. Hilary Callan, ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons
- 2018聽聽 "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 鈥淲omen in the Middle: Femininity, Virtue, and Excess in Indonesian Discourses of Middle-Classness.鈥� The Middle Classes: Theorizing Through Ethnography. Pp. 145-167. Rachel Heiman, Carla Freeman, and Mark Liechty, eds. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press.