James R. Ross

James Ross, emeritus professor of journalism at Northeastern University, Boston, has written three books, including Fragile Branches: Travels Through the Jewish Diaspora (Riverhead Books, 2000), Escape to Shanghai: A Jewish Community in China (Free Press, 1994) and Caught in a Tornado: A Chinese-American Woman Survives the Cultural Revolution (Northeastern University Press, 1994). He also wrote the lead chapter for and co-edited, with Song Lihong, The Image of Jews in Contemporary China (Academic Studies Press, 2016).

Prof. Ross was a reporter and bureau chief for the Hartford Courant for eight years. He served as a Fulbright professor in Nanjing, China in 2007-08 and Quito, Ecuador in 1994-95 and was a visiting journalism professor at the Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute in the summers of 1985 and 1986 and a visiting professor in Judaic Studies at Nanjing University and visiting journalism professor at Shantou University in spring 2017.

Prof. Ross received his B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and M.A. in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University.

He currently publishes a newsletter on Substack.