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Ryan Jones

Professor
Ann Swindells Chair, Department Head, Department of History
Asian Studies, History, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Phone: 541-346-4859
Office: 383 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-3:30
Research Interests: Russia, The Pacific, Global Environment

Biography

Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, 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 the forthcoming Red Leviathan: The Soviet Union and the Secret Destruction of the World’s Whales (University of Chicago Press).

Professor Jones is accepting MA and PhD students in the fields of global environmental history, Russian history, Pacific history, and the history of Alaska.