Ryan Tucker Jones is currently Ann Swindells Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. He holds a PhD from Columbia University and is the author of Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific’s Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1742 – 1867 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Ryan’s current research interests include the environmental history of the oceans, trans-Pacific connections, and animal history. His book Red Leviathan: The Soviet Union and the Secret Destruction of the World’s Whales is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.
Recent publications include:
- Ryan Tucker Jones, “Vladimir Arsen’ev and Whales in Russia’s Revolutionary Far East,” Sibirica: The Journal of Siberian History 19:3 (December, 2020).
- Ryan Tucker Jones and Marco de Jong, “Red Spouts in the South Pacific: Bill Dawbin, Tasman Diplomacy, and the Great Humpback Collapse of 1960 – 1962,” Journal of Pacific History v. 55 no. 4 (2020).
- Ryan Tucker Jones, “When Environmentalists Crossed the Strait: Subsistence Whalers, Hippies, and the Soviets,” Rachel Carson Centre Perspectives (2019 / 5).
- Ryan Tucker Jones, “’The Great Plains of Russia Were Once the Bottom of the Sea’: Peter Simon Pallas, Siberian Geohistory, and Empire,” in Matt Romaniello, ed., Asia in the Russian Imagination (New York: Routledge, 2020).
- Ryan Tucker Jones, “The Tragedy of Captain Ligov: History and Environment in Russian Whaling Literature,” in Nicholas Breyfogle, editor, Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018).
