Full Name
Ryan Jones
First Name
Ryan Tucker
Last Name
Jones
Affiliation
Faculty
Title
Professor
Additional Title
Ann Swindells Chair, Department Head, Department of History
Phone
541-346-4859
Office
383 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Office Hours
Departments
Asian Studies
History
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Affiliated Departments
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Interests
Russia, The Pacific, Global Environment
Profile Section
Biography
Ryan Tucker Jones holds a PhD in history from Columbia University in the City of New York. He is the author of Empire of Extinction: Russians and the Strange Beasts of the Sea (Oxford, 2014) as well as Red Leviathan: The Soviet Union and the Secret Destruction of the World’s Whales (University of Chicago Press, 2022), which was shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize.
Professor Jones is accepting MA and PhD students in the fields of global environmental history, Russian history, Pacific history, and the history of Alaska.
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