Steve Jones
Steve Jones, PhD
Department of History & Social Science
Professor and Department Chair
(817) 202-6263
25 years
18-hour grad subfield, political science, UT Arlington, 2001
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 1997
M.A. History, Oklahoma State University, 1990
B.A. Journalism, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, 1988
Cesare Lombroso: The Father of Criminology, with Dr. Randy Butler and Dr. Alex del Carmen, under contract with Kendall-Hunt for publication, 2017.
The Right Hand of Command: Use and Disuse of Personal Staffs in the Civil War, Stackpole Books, 2000.
Reporter, photographer and editor, Woodward, OK, 1979-88
Assistant editor, True West/Old West magazines, Stillwater, OK, 1990-95
Teaching assistant, OSU history department, 1988-90
Professor of history, Southwestern Adventist University, 1997-present
Online editor, U.S. Foreign Policy, About.com, 2011-2014
Steve Jones, Ph.D., and his wife Judi are owners of Great Good Fortune Studios, publishers of the Apple Tree Series of children's books. Current titles: Neko of Nagano, Hercules' Bad Grade, and Jean-Pierre Bear. Steve and Judi have been married 32 years and have two kids, ages 21 and 19. He sometimes plays drums in a band with Dr. Renard Doneskey, English professor at Southwestern.