Ross, Dorothy

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ROSS, Dorothy

ROSS, Dorothy. American, b. 1936. Genres: History. Career: Cornell University Medical College-Payne Whitney Clinic, NYC, fellow in history and psychiatry, 1965-67; American Historical Association, special assistant on the status of women historians, 1971-72; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, assistant professor of history, 1972-78, Philip and Beulah Rollins Bicentennial Preceptor, 1973-76; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, associate professor to professor of history, 1978-90; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History, 1990-, chair, Department of History, 1993-96. Center for Advanced Study in the Behaviorial Sciences, Stanford, fellow, 1992-93; Woodrow Wilson Center, fellow, 1996-97. Publications: G. Stanley Hall: The Psychologist as Prophet, 1972; The Origins of American Social Science, 1991; (ed.) Modernist Impulses in the Human Sciences, 1870-1930, 1994. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor to Encyclopedia of American Political History and to periodicals. Address: Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A.