Sarah Rees Jones
Sarah Ruth Rees Jones (born 1957) is a British historian. She is Professor of Medieval History and director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. Career. Rees Jones received her PhD in 1987 from the University of York with a thesis titled 'Property, Tenure and Rents: Some Aspects of Topogaphy and Economy of Medieval York'. Rees Jones is a Trustee of the Historic Towns Trust. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 5 February 2009. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She  was the principal investigator on the team that discovered the story of Joan of Leeds; a 14th-century nun who faked her own death to leave St. Clement's Nunnery in York to live with a man in Beverley. Rees Jones appeared on an episode of Time Team in 2005.