Cameron D. Jones

Cameron JonesLecturer

Fields

  • Latin American History
  • History of the Afro-descendants in California
  • History of Rebellion and Subversion
  • Borderlands History
     

Contact Information

Education

  • Ph.D., Latin American History, The Ohio State University (2013)
  • M.A., Latin American History, The Ohio State University (2009)  
  • B.A., History, minor in Spanish, Brigham Young University, Cum Laude (2006)
  • California Secondary Education Credential-Authorizations: History/Social Science, English, Spanish, Bilingual Education; California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (2017)

Awards, Honors and Professional Activities

  • Antonine Tibesar Award, Conference on Latin American History, 2017
  • Faculty of the Year, History Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (2016)
  • Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 2010-2011
  • Academy of American Franciscan History Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2010
  • The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Military History Fellowship, 2009, 2011, 2014
  • Clio Teaching Award, Phi Alpha Theta, The Ohio State University, 2010
  • Tinker Foundation Field Research Award, 2007
     

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • At the Heart of the Borderlands: Africans and Afro-descendants on the edges of Colonial Spanish America. Edited with Jay T. Harrison. University of New Mexico Press, Diálogos Series, 2023.

  • In Service of Two Masters: The Missionaries of Ocopa, Indigenous Resistance, and Spanish Governance in Bourbon Peru. Stanford University Press, 2018.

  • “‘Se Llaman Gente de Razón’: Afro-Descendants in Early Spanish California, 1769-1821.” In At the Heart of the Borderlands: Africans and Afro-descendants on the edges of Colonial Spanish America. Edited by Cameron D. Jones and Jay T. Harrison. University of New Mexico Press, Diálogos Series, 2023.

  • “Spanish Amazonia, 1532-1825.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Oxford University Press, 2021.

  • "South American Missions." In Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies, Ed. Ben Vinson. Oxford University Press, 2021.

  • “The Evolution of Spanish Governance During the Early Bourbon Period in Peru: The Juan Santos Atahualpa Rebellion and the Missionaries of Ocopa.” In The Americas: a quarterly review of Latin American History. Vol. 73, No. 3 (July 2016), pp. 325-348.

  • “The Heroes of these New Lands’: Spanish California’s Hidden Afro-descendant Settlers, 1768-1821" Latin American Studies Association, Virtual Conference, March 2022.

  • “‘They Call Themselves People of Reason': Afro-Descendant Soldiers in Early California, 1768–1848.” Conference on Latin American History, American Historical Association, New York, New York, January 2020.

Service

  • 2020-Present – Advisor, Students for Immigration Justice, Cal Poly

  • 2015-2018 – Advisor, Students for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, Cal Poly

  • 2015-2018 – Coordinator, English as a Second Language Tutoring and Mentoring Program,

  • Morro Bay High School, Morro Bay, California (in coordination with Cal Poly’s chapter of MEXA)

Organizational Memberships

  • American Historical Association
  • Conference on Latin American History
  • Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies
  • Asociación Internacional De Peruanistas
  • American Society of Church History
  • Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
  • Phi Alpha Theta
     

Courses

  • History 201 United States History to 1865
  • History 213 Modern Political Economy
  • History 214 Political Economy of Latin America and the Middle East
  • History 222 World History, 1000 - 1800
  • History 308 The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
  • History 339 Colonial Latin America
  • History 340 Modern Latin America
  • History 442 Topics and Issues in Latin American History 
     

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