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  • Snow Lee-Jones
  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • At Rutgers Since: 2011
  • Email: snow.leejones@rutgers.edu
  • Office: Online via Zoom for Spring 2022; Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for one-on-one person meeting information! If you enrolled in one of my courses, you can find this information in the course syllabus, or within the "Course Information and Resources" module on Canvas. [Please note legal presentations of my name may still include the deadname "Tristan Jones," which is in the process of legal and HR change.]
  • Office Hours: See above for Spring 2022.
  • About:
    • Snow Lee-Jones, PhD is from a sheep farm in rural Virginia, and is a 2019 graduate of Rutgers University’s doctoral program in cultural anthropology. They received their M.A. from Columbia University (Climate & Society ’10) and their B.A. from Oberlin College (English, Sociology '07). Their research concerns settler colonialism, phenomenology, and the production of settler whiteness in the tar sands of Alberta, Canada. Currently, they are a professor of academic research writing at Rutgers’ English Department - Writing Program at both undergraduate and graduate levels. When not teaching or writing, they are riding their bike, playing music, or painstakingly critiquing comedic television writing.
    • I acknowledge and honor that Rutgers University is located on the lands of the still-living, still-sovereign Lenape peoples, communities, and nation. I also acknowledge that Rutgers University was founded upon exclusions and erasure of Indigenous peoples and the exploitation of forced slave labor: https://diversity.rutgers.edu/honor-native-land
    • [Please note legal presentations of my name may still include the deadname "Tristan Jones," which is in the process of legal and HR change.]
  • Education:
    • Oberlin College 2007 - B.A. English, B.A. Sociology
    • Columbia University 2010 - M.A. Climate and Society
    • Rutgers University 2015 - M.A. Anthropology (Cultural)
    • Rutgers University 2019 - Ph.D. Anthropology (Cultural)
  • Courses Taught:
    • Engl 502: Graduate Writing
    • Engl 201: Research in the Disciplines - Human Ecology in the 21st Century
    • Engl 103: Honors Exposition and Argument
    • Wags 202: Gender in Global Perspective
    • Engl 101: Expository Writing I
    • Anth 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
    • Anth 111: Extinction
  • Other Information of Interest:

    Pronouns: they/them.
  • Membership Affiliations:
    • American Anthropological Association (2011-Present).
    • American Ethnological Society (2015-2020).
    • Anthropology and Environment Society (2011-Present).
    • Rutgers Climate and Society Initiative (2011-14).
    • Society for Economic Anthropology (2012-13).
    • Society for Cultural Anthropology (2018-Present).
    • University of Alberta Faculty of Native Studies, Visiting Researcher (2013-15).
    • The Human Impacts Institute, Advisory Board Member (2009-12).
  • Publications:

    2020.“Living and Dying through Oil’s Promise: The Invisibility of Contamination and Power in Alberta’s Peace River Country.” In Extracting Home in the Oil Sands: Settler Colonialism and Environmental Change in Subarctic Canada. Clint Westman, Tara Joly, and Lena Gross, eds. New York: Routledge Press.