Mark A. Jones

Assistant Professor of History
Coordinator, East Asian Studies

Department of History
208 DiLoreto Hall
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050

Phone: (860) 832-2819
Fax: (860) 832-2804
Email: jonesm@ccsu.edu

Areas of Specialization: Modern Japan, East Asian Studies, History of Childhood

Mark A. Jones received his B.A., magna cum laude, with high honors in history from Dartmouth College in 1991. He received his M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (2001) in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University. He joined the CCSU faculty in 2001. In 2001-02, he held a post-doctoral fellowship from the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. From 2003 to the present, he has served as assistant chair of the history department. In the fall of 2004, he began a three-year term as coordinator of CCSU’s East Asian Studies program.

Dr. Jones’ teaching interests include the survey of world history, as well as upper-level courses on Japan, China, and Korea. His research focuses on the emergence of modern childhood in early 20th century Japan. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled, Children as Treasures: The Middle Classes and Childhood in Early 20th Century Japan. Dr. Jones is also one of fifteen participants in a Freeman Foundation initiative called Expanding East Asian Studies (EXEAS). Held at Columbia University, the series of workshops promotes the development of teaching units on East Asia for use by high school and college teachers.

Selected publications:

• "Prewar Social History," in The Blackwell Companion to Japanese History, William Tsutsui, ed. (Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming).