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Jennifer Tilton

Professor
Race & Ethnic Studies

About Dr. Tilton

Jennifer Tilton is a professor of Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Redlands. Her research focuses on understanding the history of racial segregation in the U.S. and its impact on the criminal justice system, local politics, and children’s lives. She helps coordinate The Bridges That Carried Us Over Project: Documenting Black History in the IE and is one of the co-directors of A People’s History of the IE, a community based archiving and mapping project. Tilton’s public history work is featured at the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California, Black Voice News, and on A People’s History website www.peopleshistoryie.org. She has taught college courses in a local juvenile hall and at a California Rehabilitation Center and facilitates the IE Fair Chance Coalition which advocates to take down Barriers for people living with criminal convictions.

Education

  • Ph.D., American Culture & Anthropology, University of Michigan
  • B.A., Anthropology, Princeton University
     

Professional Background

  • Professor University of Redlands
     
  • Board Member Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California
     
  • Facilitator Inland Empire Fair Chance Coalition

Publications

A People’s History of the Inland Empire StoryMap Collection: a digital humanities mapping project to document I.E. history https://arcg.is/1Ha1vb

 

Crossing the New Jim Crow Color Line: Confronting Race in Community Service Learning Behind Bars. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning Winter 2021.

 

Race, Rage and Emotional Suspects: Ideologies of Social Mobility Confront the Racial Contours of Mass Incarceration. Special Issue on Children as Emotional Suspects in Children and Society (2020)
 

 

Rethinking Youth Voice and Institutional Power: Reflections from Inside a Service Learning Partnership in a California Juvenile Hall. Children and Youth Services Review 35(8): 1189-1196. (2013)
 

 

Dangerous and Endangered youth: Race and the Politics of Childhood in Urban America. New York University Press (2010).

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Awards and service

  • Juneteenth Freedom Award Redlands Unity in the Community
     
  • Innovative Teaching Award University of Redlands