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T. Cole Jones serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of History within the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University, teaching undergraduate courses including American History to 1877, American Military Affairs, Colonial America, and The Revolutionary Era, alongside the Cornerstone program's Transformative Texts course.
He holds a Ph.D. in early American history from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in history from Duke University, with prior postdoctoral appointments as the Hench Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society and a NEH Fellow at the New-York Historical Society.
His research specializes in the American Revolution, Colonial British North America, Comparative Revolutions, and the Cultural History of Violence and Warfare, examining how vengeance, political ideology, and cultural norms shaped military conduct during revolutionary conflicts through rigorous analysis of primary sources and interdisciplinary methodologies.
Dr. Jones's publications, led by the award-winning book Captives of Liberty, consistently explore the social dimensions of warfare in the Revolutionary era, with his current project Tory Rising: Insurrection in the Revolutionary South extending this analysis to loyalist uprisings and southern military campaigns.
His scholarly achievements have been recognized with prestigious awards:
- 2021 Society of the Cincinnati Prize (American Revolution Institute)
- 2022 Excellence in American History Book Award (National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
- Honorable Mention, Colonel Richard W. Ulbrich Memorial Book Award (U.S. Military History Group)
- Honorable Mention, Harry M. Ward Book Prize (American Revolution Roundtable of Richmond)
- Finalist, Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award (2020)
Dr. Jones has secured substantial research funding from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, United States Army Center of Military History, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, Virginia Historical Society, David Library of the American Revolution, and Georgian Papers Programme, while actively mentoring graduate students interested in the American Revolution period through structured research supervision and professional development guidance.
