Professor Colin Jones, FBA
Professor of History

Location: Arts Two 4.08
email: c.d.h.jones@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7882 8361

Professor Jones is on Leverhulme research leave in 2012-2013

Professor Colin Jones is currently President of the Royal Historical Society. He joined the department in 2006. He has taught at the universities of Newcastle, Exeter, Warwick, Stanford and Paris. He has held visiting fellowships at Princeton University, the Collège de France and the Columbia University Institute of Scholars, Reid Hall (Paris). From 2004 to 2008 he served on the History Panel of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, from 2006 to 2008 as Convenor. He has also served on the History of Medicine Panel (including as Vice-Chair) of the Wellcome Trust. Academy.

Research interests:

Professor Jones works on French history, particularly between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries, and with special interests in the history of medicine. He has also written general histories of both France and Paris from earliest times to the present. Current research and writing projects include the history of physiognomy (the arts and sciences of the face), the history of the smile, Terror during the French Revolution, and Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities.For fuller details, see his personal website.

Postgraduate supervision:

I am eager to supervise most topics within the general fields of my research interests. Recent PhD topics I have supervised or am currently supervising include: the Terror in the French Revolution; botany and collection in eighteenth-century France and England; eighteenth-century trade cards; menstruation in early modern France; health and exercise in the French Enlightenment; children and medicine in England and France, 1750-1880; and narratives of transsexuality in Britain and the USA.

Publications:

Charity and Bienfaisance: The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region, 1740-1815 (Cambridge, 1982)
Contre Retz: Sept pamphlets du temps de la Fronde (Exeter, 1982)
The Longman Companion to the French Revolution (London, 1988)
The Charitable Imperative: Hospitals and Nursing in Ancien Regime and Revolutionary France (London, 1989)
Medicine and Charity before the Welfare State (co-editor) (London, 1991)
The Cambridge Illustrated History of France (Cambridge, 1994)
Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body (co-editor) (London,1994)
The Medical World of Early Modern France (co-author, with Laurence Brockliss) (Oxford, 1998)
A Cultural Revolution: England and France, 1750-1820 (co-editor: Berkeley, California, 2002)
The Great Nation: France, 1715-99 (London, 2002)
Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress (London, 2002)
Paris. Biography of a City (London, 2004)

Undergraduate teaching:

The Face in Western Culture from the Renaissance to Freud
The French Revolution
The Age of Revolution, 1750-1820

Postgraduate teaching:

MA Core Course: ‘History: Methods, Theories, Challenges’ Module Handbook
Contributor, MA Course, ‘Paris: History and Culture’, taught at the University of London Institute in Paris