Stephen F. Jones

Stephen F. Jones (born 1953) is an English expert on post-Communist societies in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who currently serves as Chair of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Jones received his B.A. in 1974 from the University of Essex, his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1984. He has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1986), the University of London (1986–88), and at the University of Oxford (1988–89).

Selected publications Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883–1917 (Harvard University Press 2005) The Making of Modern Georgia, 1918–2012: The First Georgian Republic and its Successors (Routledge 2014)