He recently published his book Mexico’s Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction with Georgetown University Press. Prior to joining the Sam Houston State University Security Studies Department, Dr. Jones was the Alfred C. Glassell, III Postdoctoral Fellow in Drug Policy at the Baker Institute, where his research focused on drug violence in Mexico. As a Ph.D. student, Dr. Jones won the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellowship to conduct fieldwork in Mexico and spent a year in Tijuana and Mexico City assessing the resilience and illicit network structure of the Tijuana cartel. His dissertation won the best dissertation award from the Western Political Science Association.