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Ellen Ross

Professor Emerita of History and Women's Studies - Retired

Year Joined RCNJ: 1976

Contact Information

  • Phone: 201-684-7625

 

Founding member of School of Social Science and Human Services;

Designer, with others, of SSHS gen ed courses

Convener and Co-Convener of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Minor and Program, 1980-2013

Retirement, 2014

 

Education:

B.A., and PhD., History, The University of Chicago

MA History, Columbia University

 

Courses Taught at Ramapo:

Introductory Courses:

Social Issues

Women in Contemporary Society

Western Studies II

 

200- and 300-level Courses:

Britain since 1800

Twentieth-Century Europe

Witchcraft in History

Sexuality in Modern Western Societies

 

Advanced Courses:

Senior Seminar: World War I

Masters in Liberal Studies Program, 鈥淯S in a Changing World,鈥 2000—2013,

co-taught with Hank Frundt聽 or Martha Ecker

 

Books

Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918, Oxford University Press, 1993

Slum Journeys: Lady Explorers “In Darkest London”, anthology of collected original sources by women social workers, journalists, district nurses, etc., l860-l940, University of California Press, 2007

Trapped into Service: British Women鈥檚 Social Work and Humanitarian Aid, 1914-1950, in progress

 

Articles, selected, since 2010

鈥淢issionaries and Jews in Soho: 鈥楽trangers within Our Gates鈥,鈥 Journal of Victorian Culture 15, no. 2 (August 2010): 226-238

Playing Deaf鈥: Jewish Women at the Medical Missions of East London, 1880-1920s,鈥 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, no. 13 (2011) (an on-line refereed journal, Queen Mary University, London)

鈥淪t. Francis in Soho: Emmeline Pethick and Mary Neal, the West London Mission, and the Allure of 鈥楽imple Living鈥 in the 1890s,鈥 Church History 83: 4 (December 2014): 843-883

鈥淢ilitarism and Pacifism,鈥 The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ed. Celia Marshik (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016)

鈥淭he Country of the Fathers,鈥 History Workshop Journal 84 (Autumn 2017): 265-272.

鈥溾楪iggling Adolescents鈥 to Refugees, Bullets, and Wolves: Francesca Wilson Finds a Profession,鈥 in

Precarious Professionals: Gender, Identities, and Social Change in Modern Britain, ed. Heidi Egginton and Zo毛 Thomas, Royal Historical Society and Institute of Historical Research, 2021

鈥淲omen and Wages in Britain鈥檚 鈥楥lassic鈥 Slums,鈥 in The Oxford Handbook on the History of Slums, ed. Alan Mayne, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (forthcoming, 2022)

鈥溾楩ull of Spain鈥: Francesca Wilson and Republican Spain, 1937-1939,鈥 paper in progress for journal submission

 

 

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