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Benjamin Jones

Benjamin Jones

Title

Adjunct Faculty

Office Building

Lincoln Hall

Office

132

Mailing Address

Lincoln Hall 132
School of American and Global Studies-Box 2212
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Biography

Dr. Ben Jones currently serves as the state historian and director of the South Dakota State Historical Society in Pierre. As part of his role, he teaches classes at 成人视频 online. Prior to his current role, he served as South Dakota's 15th Secretary of Education, as dean of Arts and Sciences at Dakota State University and as an Air Force officer for 23 years. While in the Air Force, he was on the History Department faculty at the US Air Force Academy.

Education

  • Ph.D. | University of Kansas | 2008
  • M.A. | University of Nebraska | 1999
  • B.A. | South Dakota State University | 1989

Academic Interests

  • South Dakota history
  • Military history
  • Unconventional warfare
  • European history

Grants

  • 鈥淩ethinking K-12 Education.鈥 US Department of Education Competitive Grant, 2020, $6,883,481.
  • 鈥淗umanities Connections Implementation Grant.鈥 National Endowment for the Humanities, 2018, $99,500.
  • 鈥淭he Mount Rushmore Presidential and Congressional Academy for American History and Civics,鈥 U.S. Department of Education, 2016, $1,779,000.
  • STEM Institute Grant from Great Plains Foundation, 2015 - 2018, $17,000.
  • First In The World (FITW) 鈥淛ump Start鈥 Grant, U. S. Department of Education grant awarded to South Dakota鈥檚 public universities and Oglala Lakota College for the purposes of supporting South Dakota鈥檚 American Indian and economically disadvantaged students. 2014 - 2019. $283,000.
     

Areas of Research

  • The nature of guerrilla warfare.
  • The history of South Dakota.

Publications

Book

  1. Eisenhower鈥檚 Guerrillas:  The Jedburghs, the Maquis and the Liberation of France, (New York: Oxford University Press), 2016.

Book Chapters

  1. 鈥淲hat Works? Jedburgh Team Operations Supporting Conventional Forces,鈥 in The Competitive Advantage: Special Operations Forces in Large-Scale Combat Operations, edited by Robert M. Toguchi and Michael E Kirvdo, (Fort Leavenworth, KS: Army University Press), 2019.
  2. 鈥淟eaving Afghanistan鈥 in Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan, edited by Aaron O鈥機onnell, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 2017. 

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