Stephen F. Jones

{{short description|American historian}}

Stephen F. Jones (born {{abbr|c.|circa}} 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.{{Cite web|date=2016-02-05|title=Stephen Jones|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/people/stephen-jones|access-date=2020-10-02|website=Mount Holyoke College|language=en}}

Jones received his B.A. in 1974 from the University of Essex, his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in 1984.{{Cite web|title=Stephen F. Jones {{!}} CSS|url=http://css.ge/?page_id=265|access-date=2020-10-02|language=en-US}} 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).

Jones specializes in the history and politics of the South Caucasus nations (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan). He speaks fluent Georgian and reads Russian and French fluently. He has lectured at various schools in the United States and regularly briefs the CIA and U.S. State Department in the Caucasus.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2008-08-14|title=Stephen Jones|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/mhcs-jones-record-about-georgian-crisis|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410172053/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/mhcs-jones-record-about-georgian-crisis|archive-date=2019-04-10|access-date=2020-10-02|website=Mount Holyoke College|language=en}}