Marc Howard Ross teaches courses in conflict theory, conflict management, and the politics of ethnicity and race. His recent research focuses on the role of culture in ethnic conflict and its management. It draws on conflict surrounding such issues as Loyal order parades in Northern Ireland, the holy sites in the old city of Jerusalem, language conflicts in Catalonia and Quebec, the confederate battle flag in the US south, and the politics of memory in post-Apartheid South Africa.
Ross is the author of four books: The Culture of Conflict: Interpretations and Interests in Comparative Perspective, The Management of Conflict: Interpretations and Interests in Comparative Perspective, Grass Roots in an African City: Political Behavior in Nairobi and The Political Integration of Urban Squatters. He has edited Theory and Practice in Ethnic Conflict Management: Theorizing Success and Failure and Cultural Strategies of Agenda Denial: Avoidance, Attack and Redefinition, and he has published scores of scholarly essays. He serves on the editorial boards of the scholarly journals Behavior Science Research, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Political Psychology and is a past chair of the Peace and Conflict Studies Section of the International Studies Association as well as a past president of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research. Ross' work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation's Anthropology Program, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the United States Institute for Peace and the Mellon Foundation's New Directions Program. Click here for his complete CV.
Poli Sci B316 - Ethnic Group Politics (Fall 2004)
Poli Sci B348 - Culture and Ethnic Conflict (Spring 2005)
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