Professor Stephen Jones served as the founding director of the Davis Center's Program on Georgian Studies until summer of 2024 and chairs the program's Advisory Board. He received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1984. He has taught at the universities of California, London, and Oxford. He was a research fellow at Harvard University and a senior associate member at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford. Since 1989 he has taught at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
His books include Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917 (Harvard University, 2005), War and Revolution in the Caucasus: Georgia Ablaze (ed., Routledge, 2010), Georgia: A Political History Since Independence (I.B. Tauris, 2012), and The Birth of Modern Georgia: The First Georgian Republic and Its Successors, 1918-2010 (ed., Routledge, 2013). He was the English-language editor-in-chief of The History of Georgia, or Kartlis Tskhovreba (Georgian Academy of Sciences and Artanuji Publishers, 2014), and principal editor for a three-volume set in Georgian of Noe Jordania’s speeches and writing.
Professor Jones is a foreign member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and received an honorary doctorate from Tbilisi State University in 2012 and from Ilia State University in 2018.
