Georgia Institute of TechnologySchool of History, Technology, and Society
School of History, Technology, and Society

John Lawrence Tone

Associate Dean of Ivan Allen College and Professor

(PhD, Columbia University, 1989) is an historian specializing in modern Spain and Cuba, the French Revolution, and Tropical and Military Medicine. He is the author of three books: War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898, winner in 2008 of the Society for Military History Prize for the best book on a non-US subject. It has been re-issued as Guerra y genocidio en Cuba (2008). He is also the author of La Guerrilla y la derrota de Napoleon and The Fatal Knot: The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain, winner of the Literary Prize of the International Napoleonic Society and a Selection of the History Book Club. His articles have appeared in European History Quarterly, The Journal of Military History, and History and Technology. He is a life fellow of the International Napoleonic Society and has won research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Fulbright Association. His current project is a medical and political history of yellow fever.

Contact Information
Old Civil Engineering Building, Room G17
Phone: 404.894.8631
E-mail: john.tone@hts.gatech.edu