Cameron D. Jones

Fields

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)

National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Initiatives Grant, 2025
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

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America, 3rd edition. Edited with Kenneth J. Andrien. Blomsbury, 2026.
“Black Missionaries and Black Rebels of the Montaña: Africans and the Juan Santos Atahualpa Rebellion.” Ethnohistory: The Journal of the American Society of Ethnohistory. Vol 73, No. 3, July 2026.
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.

2024-Present Vice President, California Faculty Association, San Luis Obispo Chapter
2020-2023 – 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 (in coordination with Cal Poly’s chapter of MEXA)