Susan D. Jones

With degrees in veterinary medicine and history of science, I teach college/graduate courses at the University of Minnesota. I'm fascinated by the history of zoonotic diseases (those diseases transmitted between animals and humans) and the scientific professions that have dealt with these diseases (especially veterinary medicine). My first book, "Valuing Animals," traces the development of American veterinary medicine over the past 150 years. My second book, "Death in a Small Package" tells how and why anthrax (an agricultural disease) got transformed into a biological weapon. I'm currently working on the history of plague and other diseases endemic in the wildlife of the Eurasian borderlands of the former Soviet Union and China.