Gwion Wyn Jones is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the RAI. Alongside Professor Adam Smith and Dr Mark Power Smith, he works on the Leverhulme Trust project Conservatisms in the Age of Revolutions, 1830-1877, which analyses the many ways ordinary Americans in the mid-nineteenth century used the term ‘conservative’ to describe a range of political beliefs and policies.
His research interests lie mainly in the religious and political history of the nineteenth-century US. His DPhil thesis, Home Missions and the Religious Reconstruction of the United States, explored the role of Protestant missionaries – and the many thousands of evangelicals across the Northern states who bankrolled them – in the reunification of the US after the Civil War.
He read History as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge where he won the Margaret Hastings Prize, Russel Gurney Scholarship, and the Ellen McArthur Scholarship. He moved to Oxford for a Master’s in US History where he received the Carwardine Prize. He stayed at Oxford to pursue his DPhil as the Edward Orsborn scholar at University College.
Publications
Jones, Gwion Wyn. “Between Scylla and Charybdis: Religion and the Meaning of Union in the Border States, 1861-1865”, American Nineteenth Century History, Vol. 23, No. 1, (2022), 40-61.
