Pruitt received a doctorate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (since retracted) under his advisor Susan Riechert.Jonathan N. Pruitt, Pruitt Lab, McMaster University Pruitt completed a postdoc at the UC Davis Center for Population Biology under the supervision of Andy Sih and Jay Stachowicz and was hired as an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh in 2011. He later moved to UC Santa Barbara and then, in 2018, to McMaster University. His research was funded by the National Science Foundation.
