{"id":43,"date":"2014-07-15T14:15:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T21:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/polisci\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=43"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:13:49","slug":"jones-tim","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/polisci\/staff\/jones-tim\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Jones, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Tim Jones and I am a Senior\u00a0Associate Professor\u00a0of\u00a0Political Science at Bellevue College.\u00a0I live in Seattle,\u00a0I&#8217;m married, and I have two kids\u00a0who keep me busy when I&#8217;m not working.\u00a0I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, and I am the first member of my family to graduate from college. I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies and International and Intercultural Studies\u00a0from Pitzer College in 2000, a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Washington in 2006, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from the University of Washington in 2012. I have published in several academic journals, including:\u00a0Communication Research, Journal of Communication,\u00a0International Journal of Communication,\u00a0Media, War, and Conflict, and\u00a0Political Communication, but my passion is teaching. I won a Teacher Tribute Award from Stanford University in 2016 and a Lockwood Distinguished Faculty Award in 2017. I am also the adviser for the award-winning\u00a0Bellevue College Model United Nations (MUN)\u00a0program.<\/p>\n<h4>Teaching Philosophy<\/h4>\n<p>In my classes I try to foster a deep-seated commitment to social justice and civic engagement. No matter how many times I teach a subject or how much I think I know about it, I always try to approach my next class as if I were teaching it for the first time. If I want my students to be excited and open-minded about a subject then I believe I need to model that attitude and behavior myself. In Buddhist terms, I try to adopt a \u201cbeginner\u2019s mind\u201d rather than an \u201cexpert\u2019s mind.\u201d An illustrative quote in this respect, which I like to share with my students is \u201cIn the beginner\u2019s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert\u2019s there are few.\u201d What this means for me in practice is that I try not to introduce any topic that I am not truly interested in myself; I regularly try out new teaching techniques; I often reinvent assignments; and I am up-front about the fact that I do not have all the answers. It also means that I encourage my students to question convention and authority, including my own, and to consider alternative ways of thinking and relating to the world. In the process, I try to have as much fun as possible as I believe that what we learn with pleasure we are less likely to forget. In the end, I hope my students leave my classes more curious, more critical, more self-aware, and more self-confident than they were when they entered.<\/p>\n<h4>Courses Taught at BC<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to Political Science<\/li>\n<li>American Government<\/li>\n<li>International Relations<\/li>\n<li>Revolutions in the Modern World<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to\u00a0Comparative Politics<\/li>\n<li>The Pursuit of Happiness: The Politics and Psychology of Well-Being<\/li>\n<li>Democracy Depends on You: Media, Politics, and Persuasion<\/li>\n<li>(In)Decision 2012: Campaigns and Elections in the United States<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Publications<\/h4>\n<p>Sheets, P., Rowling, C. M., &amp;\u00a0Jones, T. M.\u00a0(2015). The View from Above (And Below): A Comparison of American, British, and Arab News Coverage of U.S. Drones.\u00a0Media, War &amp; Conflict,\u00a08(3): 289-311.<\/p>\n<p>Rowling, C. M., Sheets, P. &amp;\u00a0Jones, T. M.\u00a0(2015). American Atrocity Revisited: National Identity, Cascading Frames, and the My Lai Massacre.\u00a0Political Communication, 32(2): 310-330.<\/p>\n<p>Rowling, C. M., Sheets, P., &amp;\u00a0Jones, T. M.\u00a0(2013). Frame Contestation in the News: National Identity, Cultural Resonance, and the U.S. Drone Policy.\u00a0International Journal of Communication, 7: 2231-2253.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, T. M., Van Aelst, P. &amp; Vliegenthart, R. (2013). Foreign Nation Visibility in the U.S. News Media: A Longitudinal Analysis (1950-2006).\u00a0Communication Research, 40(3): 417-436.<\/p>\n<p>Rowling, C. M.,\u00a0Jones, T. M., &amp; Sheets, P. (2011). Some Dared Call it Torture: Cultural Resonance, Abu Ghraib, and a Selectively Echoing Press.\u00a0Journal of Communication, 61: 765-786.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, T. M. &amp; Sheets, P. (2009). Torture in the Eye of the Beholder: Social Identity, News Coverage, and Abu Ghraib. Political Communication, 26(3): 278-295.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, T. M. (2008). Review of Comparative Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics.\u00a0Comparative Political Studies, 41(1): 128-131.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":44,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-43","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/43\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}