Dr. Tiffany F. Jones
Assistant Professor 

E-Mail: tjones@csusb.edu
Phone: (909)-537-3792
Fax: (909)-537-7645

Education

PhD, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
MA and BA (hon), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Areas of Specialization

African history
South African history
Medical history
Psychiatric history
History of “third world” development 
History of representations of death
 

Courses Offered

Africa to 1500
Africa 1500 to 1870
The Rise, Decline and Legacy of Apartheid
Africa 1870 to Present
World Civilizations III
 

Publications

Jones, Tiffany F. “Averting White Male (Ab)Normality:  Psychiatric Representations and Treatment of ‘Homosexuality’ in 1960s South Africa” forthcoming publication in Journal of Southern African Studies [2007].

Jones, Tiffany F., “Promoting Unequal Access in South Africa? Contemporary Assertions of Community-Based Mental Services and the Legacy of Community Psychiatry from the 1940s to the 1960s” Kleio: a journal of historical studies from Africa, Unisa Press, University of South Africa 38, no. 2 (2006): 164-190.

Book Reviews for the Canadian Journal of African Studies and H-SAfrica.

Current Research
Interests
and Projects

Jones, Tiffany F., Dis-Ordered States: Madness, Mental Institutions and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa, book in preparation based on PhD disseratation.

H. Tijani, R. Njoku, and T. Jones, eds. Africa and the Wider World (McGraw-Hill Higher Education Publisher, New York, [2008]), book in preparation.  Chapters contribution: “Southern African Kingdoms Before 1652” and “Health, Illnesses, and Africa.” 

Jones, Tiffany F., Life and Death in Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Southern Africa: Epidemics, Burials and Remains, book project in progress. 

Jones, Tiffany F. and Uyilawa Usuanlele, “Challenging Apartheid Exclusivity: The Role of Independent African Nations in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, 1950s-1994”.