Susan Jones

Introduction

Susan D. Jones, Ph.D., is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota.

Jones is a historian of the modern biomedical and life sciences, with specialization in the historical ecology of disease, comparative and veterinary medicine, and environment and health. 

Jones’s current research interests focus on the historical ecology of zoonotic diseases, and these projects have been awarded Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships. 

Jones teaches courses in the history of ecology and environmentalism; global environmental history; history of biology and the life sciences; and the historical ecology of disease.