Eric B. Ross

Professorial Lecturer in Anthropology and International Affairs
E-mail ross@iss.nl
Office: 1957 E St. / (202) 994-5158

Dr. Ross is a development anthropologist interested in environment and population issues, public health and epidemiology, and gender.

Research

Topics of Dr. Ross's wide-ranging research have included health and warfare among Jívaro Indians in the Peruvian Amazon, the political ecology of Britain's Celtic fringe, and the fate of peasants in the making of the modern world.

Selected Publications

Books

1998	Ross, E.B. The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development. London: Zed Press.
1987	Harris, M., and E.B. Ross, eds. Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
1987	Harris, M., and E.B. Ross. Death, Sex, and Fertility: Population Regulation in Preindustrial and Developing Societies. New York: Columbia University Press.

Articles and Book Chapters

2007	Ross, E.B., and S. Borras. "Land Rights, conflict, and violence amid neo-liberal globalization," Peace Review; A Journal of Social Justice 19(1): 1-4.
2007	Ross, E.B. "Clearance as development strategy in rural Colombia," Peace Review; A Journal of Social Justice 18(1): 59-65.
1995	Ross, E.B., "Syphilis, misogyny and witchcraft in 16th-century Europe," Current Anthropology 36(2): 333-37.

Courses Taught

Anth 152: Cultural Ecology
Anth 220: Anthropology of Development
Anth 223: Research Methods in Development Anthropology
IAff 238: The World Economy and Rural Livelihoods
IAff 238: Rural Development Strategies

Education

Ph.D. 1976, Columbia University
B.A. 1968, University of Pennsylvania