Prof Jane Carruthers is currently Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Science. She is a Research Associate of the Centre for Invasion Biology at Stellenbosch University, and Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies.
Prof Carruthers is Past Chair of the Academic Advisory Board of the Rachel Carson Centre at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, and Past Founding President of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organisations based at Duke University, USA.
She is a pioneer of environmental history in South Africa. Her doctoral thesis, The Kruger National Park: A Social and Political History, has become a standard reference work. Prof Carruthers has Published widely on the history of conservation and science as well as land restitution claims and land reform, and national park initiatives in both South Africa and Australia.
After a long Teaching and Research career at the University of South Africa, she became Professor Emeritus at UNISA after her retirement at the end of 2012. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, and a Fellow of Clare Hall, at the University of Cambridge, UK. Prof Carruthers has held many international Visiting Fellowships and is the recipient of many academic prizes.