Michael A. Ross
Associate Professor
Office Bobet Hall 420
E-mail: maross1@loyno.edu
Phone: 504-865-3538
Home Page: http://www.loyno.edu/~maross1/
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Professor Ross specializes in the Civil War Era and U.S. Legal History. He holds a law degree from Duke University (1989) and earned a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1999). His articles and book reviews have appeared in the American Journal of Legal History , American Nineteenth-Century History, Annals of Iowa, Civil War History, Filson Club History Quarterly, Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, Journal of the American West, Journal of Supreme Court History, Journal of Women's History, Law & History Review, the New Orleans Times-Picayune , and the Western Historical Quarterly. Several of his articles have won or co-won prizes including the Southern Historical Association's Fletcher M. Green and Charles Ramsdell Award. His book Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and Supreme Court during the Civil War Era (LSU Press 2003) won the George Tyler Moore Civil War Center's Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship and the Association of American Jesuit College and Universities Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award. In 2004 he won the Loyola University College of Arts & Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award. In February 2007, he delivered the Leon Silverman Lecture at the United States Supreme Court.
Select Publications
"The Commemoration of Robert E. Lee's Death and the Obstruction of Reconstruction in New Orleans," in Civil War History 51(June 2005): 135-150. (pdf available)
"Resisting the New South: Commercial Crisis and Decline in New Orleans, 1865-1885," in American Nineteenth Century History, 4(Spring 2003): 59-76. (pdf available)
(with Stacy L. Braukman) “Married Women’s Property and Male Coercion: United States Courts and the Role of the Privy Examination, 1860-1883,” in the Journal of Women’s History, 12 (Summer 2000): 57-80. (pdf available)
“Justice Miller’s Reconstruction: Civil Rights, Health Codes, the Slaughter-House Cases, and New Orleans, 1862-1873,” in the Journal of Southern History, LXIV(November 1998): 649-676. (pdf available)