Jones is currently a professor of geography and environment at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He was the president of the Political Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers from 2014–15. He is the editor-in-chief at the journal Geopolitics. He is also the co-editor of the Routledge Geopolitics Book Series with Klaus Dodds. He was named a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers in 2023.
