History
Dr. Jeff Jones is an Associate Professor in the UNCG History Department, a native North Carolinian (born in the mountains in Jefferson; grew up in nearby Liberty) and did all of his undergraduate and graduate work at UNC-Chapel Hill. He teaches Russian/Soviet and contemporary world history and is the author of Everyday Life and the ‘Reconstruction’ of Soviet Russia During and After the Great Patriotic War, 1943-1948 (Slavica Publishers, 2008). Dr. Jones is currently writing a book on the Soviet-Afghan War entitled Smoke, Mirrors, and Memories: Varying Perspectives of the Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-2014. As part of that project he spent the summer of 2012 working in the archives in Moscow and interviewing Russian veterans of the war and Russian citizens from the time for their recollections of the conflict, and also spent five weeks in Vilnius, Lithuania over Winter Break 2013-14 doing research in the KGB archive there and interviewing Lithuanian veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War. He was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Resident Fellowship in 2009.
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