Raised in
Queens, New York, Ross attended
Bayside High School and graduated from
Columbia University in 1971, being the first person in his family to have graduated from college. He then earned a B.Phil. from the
University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from
Princeton University. and the 2018 Theatre Library Association Richard Wall Memorial Award. His book
The War against Hate: American Resistance to Antisemitism and White Supremacy is scheduled for release on 28 April 2026. From 2003 to 2006, and from 2007 to 2010, he was the chair of the department of history at the
University of Southern California. Ross also directs the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life and is the co-founder and former co-director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at USC. == References ==