2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-4281
fax: 301-314-9399

            Professor Ross is a specialist in American constitutional and legal history, having written extensively on the adoption and interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. His first book, Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Civil War Era (LSU, 2003), is a biography of one of the most important justices on the post-bellum Supreme Court. The book won the George Tyler Moore Civil War Center's Seaborg Award for Civil War Non-Fiction and the Association of American Jesuit College and Universities Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award. He has also published articles in American Nineteenth-Century History, Civil War History, Journal of Women's History, Journal of Southern History, Journal of Supreme Court History and other periodicals. Several of these articles have won prizes including the Southern Historical Association's Fletcher M. Green and Charles Ramsdell Award. He is currently working on a study of race and justice in New Orleans during Reconstruction.

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