Stephen Graham Jones

About

Stephen Graham Jones is a Professor of Distinction and the Ineva Reilly Baldwin Endowed Chair at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of English. He is a New York Times bestselling author of nearly thirty-five novels and collections, including works in various genres such as horror, science fiction, fantasy, westerns, thriller, mystery, noir, and young adult literature. His writing also encompasses novellas and comic books, notably including the comic book Earthdivers and the novel Mongrels. Jones has received numerous awards and honors for his contributions to literature, including the NEA award, the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the August Derleth British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the American Indian Festival of Words Writers Award among others. He has been inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and the Eisner Award, and has been recognized by Bloody Disgusting’s Top Ten Horror Novels. His areas of specialty include Creative Writing, Ethnic American Literature, Literature of the Americas, Post Colonial Literature, Popular Culture, Film, Digital Media, and Comic Books. His work often explores themes within ethnic American literature and popular genres, contributing significantly to contemporary American literary and cultural…

Research topics

• Sociology
• Social Science
• Medicine
• Political Science
• Biology
• Environmental ethics
• Internal medicine
• Chemistry
• Veterinary medicine
• Immunology

Selected publications

• The Rinderpest Campaigns: A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century

  Journal of American History · 2019-06-15 · 3 citations

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  Using the case study of rinderpest (a viral cattle disease), this book analyzes how “biological interconnectedness” was one of the “internationalisms” that shaped twentieth-century global political relations (p. 10). Rinderpest was declared eradicated in 2011 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (Fao) and the Office International des Épizooties (Oie). The author argues that the key to this success was “international cooperation” driven by a widely articulated desire to use technologies to ad…

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• Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and Its Histories ed. by Abigail Woods et al.

  Bulletin of the history of medicine · 2020 · 1 citations

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  Reviewed by: Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and Its Histories ed. by Abigail Woods et al. Susan D. Jones Abigail Woods, Michael Bresalier, Angela Cassidy, Rachel Mason Dentinger, eds. Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and Its Histories. Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xviii + 280 pp. $31.00 (978-3-319-64336-6). In the 2010s, the concept of "One Health" (OH) has been increasingly "invoked…

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• SECURING THE STEPPES:

  University of Pittsburgh Press eBooks · 2025-04-29

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• Supplementary Data from Preclinical Characterization of HPN536, a Trispecific, T-Cell–Activating Protein Construct for the Treatment of Mesothelin-Expressing Solid Tumors

  2023-03-31

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• Supplementary Data from Preclinical Characterization of HPN536, a Trispecific, T-Cell–Activating Protein Construct for the Treatment of Mesothelin-Expressing Solid Tumors

  2023-03-31

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Recent grants

• Scholar's Award: Plague's Third Pandemic: A History of Disease Ecology

  NSF · $75k · 2011–2016

Frequent coauthors

• Ramachandra Guha

  18 shared

• Adam Rome

  University at Buffalo, State University of New York

  18 shared

• Christine Meisner Rosen

  University of California, Berkeley

  18 shared

• P.J.E.M. van Dam

  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  18 shared

• Marcus Hall

  University of Zurich

  18 shared

• Peter A. Koolmees

  Utrecht University

  11 shared

• Patrick A. Baeuerle

  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

  8 shared

• Philip J. Pauly

  6 shared

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, History and Sociology of Science

  University of Pennsylvania

  1997

• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  1990

• A.B., Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

  Harvard University

  1986

Awards & honors

• NEA recipient
• Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction
• Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize
• Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award
• August Derleth British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel

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