History

Jim Jones

History

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Jim Jones

Professor of History
411 Wayne Hall
610-436-2312
JJones@wcupa.edu

Website
Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught

HIS 100: History of the Twentieth Century
HIS 101: History of World Civilization I
HIS 102: History of World Civilization II
HIS 311: African History to 1875
HIS 312: African History Since 1875
HIS 400: Seminar
HIS 428: History of Spain
HIS 511: African History to Independence
HIS 512: African History Since Independence

About Me

Professor Jones holds degrees in Mathematics (B.Sc.), Modern European History (M.A.) and Modern African History (Ph.D.) from the University of Delaware. Prior to joining the faculty of West Chester University, he was an adjunct professor at Wesley College in Dover, Delaware, a long-distance camping tour operator in North America, and an agricultural laborer in the south of France.

As an award-winning public speaker and community volunteer, he has held numerous offices and made over two hundred speaking presentations during his career at WCU. He is the author of Industrial Labor in the Colonial World: The African Workers of the Chemin de Fer Dakar-Niger (2002), Made in West Chester (2003) and Railroads of West Chester (2007), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on industrial and labor history.