Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies John Tone

John Tone was named Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies for the Ivan Allen College in January, 2008. He continues to serve as a Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He specializes in European and military history in the School of History, Technology, and Society.

He has written several articles and books on Spanish and Cuban history, including The Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain (1995), La guerrilla española (1999), and War and Genocide in Cuba (2006). His current research is on the history of yellow fever.

He has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society. He has taught undergraduate courses on Europe since the Renaissance, Nineteenth-Century Europe, Twentieth-Century Europe, Columbus and the Conquest of America, The French Revolution and Napoleon, The Enlightenment, Intellectual History, Modern Spain, Modern Cuba, and Research Methods, and graduate seminars on Comparative Revolutions and The Comparative History of Labor, Industrialization, and Technology. The Fatal Knot was a selection of the History Book Club and received the Literary Prize of the International Napoleonic Society in 1999. He was inducted as a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society in that same year.