Pete Jones

Pete Jones specializes in the deep history of Europe’s intellectual and emotional life. He has taught for fourteen years at universities including UCL, New York University (where he received a PhD in Medieval History in 2014), the University of Toronto, and Complutense University of Madrid (where he is currently a Marie Curie fellow). For four years he was a professor at the School of Advanced Studies at the University of Tyumen in Siberia, where he was Chair of History. He has received research fellowships from the Warburg Institute, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, and Brown University, as well as Marie Curie. Pete’s first book, Laughter & Power in the Twelfth Century, came out in 2019 with Oxford University Press, and he has published research articles in Past & Present, Church History, and The Journal of Material Culture.