Emeritus professor Jane Carruthers is an environmental historian at the University of South Africa, where she pioneered the discipline. Her book The Kruger National Park: A Social and Political History has become a standard reference worldwide. Her research areas include environmental justice and the history of national parks, the origins of wildlife management and game ranching, land restitution issues, landscape design and ecology, heritage, cartography, and transnational history. Carruthers is widely published in books and scholarly journals. Her latest book is National Park Science: A Century of Research in South Africa. Jane is a member of numerous editorial boards and has been awarded a number of prizes. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa and member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, and past president of the Southern African Historical Society. Carruthers was named an honorary Carson fellow in December 2014 in recognition of her six years of service as the chair of the Academic Advisory Board.