James Rodman Ross

Academic Background

August 1982: M.A. in Journalism and Public Affairs, American University, Washington, D.C.

June 1972: B.A. in American Studies, Yale University,New Haven, Connecticut

Teaching Experience

July 2002 to present
Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies, Northeastern University, Boston. Developed new course in American Jewish Film and graduate journalism seminar taught with Israeli journalist Tom Segev on press coverage of the Middle East. Serve as guest lecturer in course on Introduction to Jewish Religion and Culture. Deliver annual Stotsky lecture.

July 2002 to present
Graduate coordinator, School of Journalism, Northeastern University. Oversee admissions, advise students, develop curriculum and promotional materials.

July 1999 to July 2001
Acting Director, School of Journalism. Oversaw hiring and performance reviews of full- and part-time faculty and office staff, supervised budget and internal grant proposals, oversaw advising for more than 400 majors.

July 1994 to present
Associate Professor, School of Journalism. Teach courses in press law, journalism ethics, literary journalism, feature writing and news writing.

July 1994 to June 1998
Graduate coordinator, School of Journalism.

January to June 1997
Acting Director, School of Journalism.

July 1995 to June 1998
Chair, Jewish Studies Program.
Introduced new interdisciplinary minor, developed curriculum, hired part-time faculty.

July to November 1994
J. William Fulbright lecturer and researcher, Ecuador.

September 1988 to June 1994 and September 1986 to June 1988
Associate professor of journalism, University of Connecticut.

June 1985 and May-June 1986
Visiting journalism professor, Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute, Shanghai, China.

September 1982 to August 1986
Assistant professor, English Writing Program, University of Pittsburgh.

September 1981 to August 1982
Graduate teaching assistant, American University.

September 1980 to June 1981
Instructor of journalism, University of Connecticut.

Professional Experience

April 1983 to April 1986
Copy editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (part-time). Worked on wire, local and sports desks.

June to August 1982
Contributing editor, Washington Journalism Review (now American Journalism Review). Supervised interns and served as acting editor.

December 1981 to April 1982
Contributing editor, "Inside Story," PBS. Proposed story ideas for national press criticism program.

May 1972 to January 1980
Reporter and bureau chief, Hartford Courant. Covered news, feature and investigative stories, supervised staff reporters and hired and trained stringers.

June to August 1971
Reporting intern, Washington Star. Selected by Dow Jones Newspaper Fund for reporting scholarship.

Academic Background

August 1982: M.A. in Journalism and Public Affairs, American University, Washington, D.C.

June 1972: B.A. in American Studies, Yale University,New Haven, Connecticut

Teaching Experience

July 2002 to present
Graduate coordinator, School of Journalism, Northeastern University. Oversee admissions, advise students, develop curriculum and promotional materials.

July 1994 to present
Associate Professor, School of Journalism. Teach courses in press law, journalism ethics, literary journalism, feature writing and news writing.

July 1994 to June 1998
Graduate coordinator, School of Journalism.

January to June 1997
Acting Director, School of Journalism.

July 1995 to June 1998
Chair, Jewish Studies Program.
Introduced new interdisciplinary minor, developed curriculum, hired part-time faculty.

July to November 1994
J. William Fulbright lecturer and researcher, Ecuador.

September 1988 to June 1994 and September 1986 to June 1988
Associate professor of journalism, University of Connecticut.

June 1985 and May-June 1986
Visiting journalism professor, Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute, Shanghai, China.

September 1982 to August 1986
Assistant professor, English Writing Program, University of Pittsburgh.

September 1981 to August 1982
Graduate teaching assistant, American University.

September 1980 to June 1981
Instructor of journalism, University of Connecticut.

Professional Experience

April 1983 to April 1986
Copy editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (part-time). Worked on wire, local and sports desks.

June to August 1982
Contributing editor, Washington Journalism Review (now American Journalism Review). Supervised interns and served as acting editor.

December 1981 to April 1982
Contributing editor, "Inside Story," PBS. Proposed story ideas for national press criticism program.

May 1972 to January 1980
Reporter and bureau chief, Hartford Courant. Covered news, feature and investigative stories, supervised staff reporters and hired and trained stringers.

June to August 1971
Reporting intern, Washington Star. Selected by Dow Jones Newspaper Fund for reporting scholarship.

Publications

Books:

Fragile Branches: Travels Through the Jewish Diaspora, Riverhead (a division of Penguin Putnam), 229 pages, 2000.

Escape to Shanghai: A Jewish Community in China, The Free Press, 298 pages, 1994.

Caught in a Tornado: A Chinese-American Woman Survives the Cultural Revolution, Northeastern University Press, 175 pages, 1994.

Books, chapters:

Researched and drafted chapter on Local Government in The Untapped Power of the Press by Lewis W. Wolfson, Praeger Publishers (1985), pp. 153-160. c

Magazine Articles:

"From the Field: An Old Faith's Tender Growth," Northeastern University magazine, May 2001, pp. 12-13.

"Tradition, Mashadi Style," Hadassah Magazine, January 2003, pp. 12-17.

"Inaugurating a New Era," Northeastern University magazine, March 1997, pp. 18-30.

"Ecuador's Timid Press." Nieman Reports, Fall 1995, pp. 61-62.

"Pomp and Populism," Northeastern University Magazine, July 1993, special insert.

"Resources: When Trades Lead the Pack," Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 1990, p. 18.

"Saying No to Drug Testing," Washington Journalism Review, January/February 1989, p. 18.

Publications/ Magazine Articles:

"Media/Paper Capers," Connecticut Magazine, June 1988, pp. 65-70.

"ABC, Circulation Watchdog: Sometimes It Doesn't Bark," Washington Journalism Review, April 1988, pp. 14-15.

"Spiked in Hartford," Washington Journalism Review, November 1987, pp. 36-37.

"Mission to Shanghai," Washington Journalism Review, February 1986, pp. 42-44.

"Elegy for Angie's," Pittsburgh Press Sunday Magazine, April 14, 1985, pp. 10-21.

"A Medium Without a Message?" Pittsburgh Magazine, May 1984, pp. 52-61.

"Just a Good Ol' Boy," Pittsburgh Magazine, November 1983, pp. 65-72, 112-13.

"Breaking the Color Barrier," Pittsburgh Magazine, October 1983, p. 11.

"A Case of the VDTs," Washington Journalism Review, July/August 1983, p. 11.

"CBS in the Crossfire," Washington Journalism Review, September 1982, p. 10.

"The Turnstile Journalists: Sawyer, Moyers, Safire and People Like Them," (chief author, with three others), The Quill, July/August 1982, pp. 16-21.

"The Hartford Courant: A Mirror of the Times?" Washington Journalism Review, April 1982, pp. 14-15.

"The Cost of Fighting Age Discrimination," Connecticut Magazine, July 1981, pp. 62-67.

"The Duke and Duchess of Discount," Hartford Courant Sunday magazine, September 7, 1980, pp. 4-7.

"John Williams v. the Establishment," Hartford Courant Sunday magazine, April 6,

Reviews:

"Jews and the New American Scence," Religious Studies Review, Summer 1997.

"Reporting in Depth," by Hiley H. Ward, Journalism Educator, Fall, 1991, p. 72.

"Interviewing: Principles and Practices," Newspaper Research Journal, Spring 1983, pp. 65-66. **Publications(cont.)**

Newspaper Articles:

"Education in the Far East," Pitt News Weekly, July 10, 1985, pp. 3-4.

"Going Off the Beaten Track and Touring Spain by Auto," Philadelphia Inquirer, October 21, 1984, p. 12.

"If Orwell Had Been Right," (with students from the University of Pittsburgh Writing Program), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 9, 1984, p. 7.

"Helen Caldicott's Doomsday Warning," Hartford Advocate, April 22, 1981, pp. 6, 12-13.

"Can the Swami Keep You Healthy?" Hartford Advocate, February 11, 1981, pp. 6, 14-16.

"Who Will Fill Chris Dodd's Shoes?" Hartford Advocate, October 15, 1980, pp. 10, 11 and 16.

June to November 1980: Five articles in the Boston Globe on Connecticut, including a front-page commentary on Connecticut's search for an identity.

May 1972 to January 1980: Hundreds of articles in the Hartford Courant, including investigations of real estate blockbusting in the Hartford suburbs, mismanagement by a city redevelopment agency and the private dealings of a top state consumer protection official who tried to swindle home buyers.

March 1971 to April 1972: Dozens of stories in the New York Times about Yale University, including a feature on innovative admissions policies and spot news coverage of student protests.

June to August 1971: Dozens of news and feature articles in the Washington Star, including a feature on problems with housing for the elderly in the District of Columbia and spot news coverage of a flood threat to Laurel, Md.

Honors and Awards

Named Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies beginning July 2002.

Selected to attend one-week seminar on new media technologies for college journalism educators, Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla., April 2001.

Awarded $10,000 Research, Scholarship and Development Fund award from Northeastern University, Office of the Provost, for travel and research expenses for Fragile Branches, 1999-2000.

Selected as consultant for Pro-Media Ukraine, IREX (federal international research and exchange program) to consult on journalism curriculum at Ukrainian universities, lecture in Kiev, and host Ukrainian journalism professors in visit to Northeastern, March-December 1997.

Awarded $3,000 Instructional Development Fund grant from Northeastern University, Office of the Provost, to develop and team teach new course combining curricula in moral philosophy and journalism ethics, 1996-97.

Selected as J. Willam Fulbright lecturer and researcher for July-November 1994 to teach seminars in Ecuador and conduct research on Jewish life in South America.

Awarded $1,000 from Reader's Digest Foundation's Journalism Travel/Research Grant to reimburse journalism students for expenses in researching newspaper and magazine stories, 1993-94.

Nominated for Excellence in Teaching Award, Winter 1993.

Awarded $9,000 grant through Northeastern University's bursar's office for program with John O'Bryant High School, covering tuition for three minority high school juniors interested in careers in journalism who took courses for college credit at Northeastern in spring 1993.

Selected for $4,000 grant from Gannett Freedom Forum for Escape to Shanghai, January, 1992.

Awarded $18,000 grant from John Ben Snow Foundation for senior scholars program linking Northeastern School of Journalism and Boston Technical High School (now O'Bryant High School), June 1991.

Awarded $6,000 Research and Scholarship Development Fund grant for Escape to Shanghai, May, 1991.

Selected to attend C-Span seminar for college professors on using cable television in the classroom, Summer 1989.

Awarded Faculty Research Grant, University of Connecticut Research Foundation, for Caught in a Tornado (under working title The Soft Knife), Spring 1987.

Awarded Faculty of Arts and Sciences research grant, University of Pittsburgh, for Caught in a Tornado, Spring 1986.

Awarded travel grants, University of Pittsburgh Contemporary China Program, for teaching and research in Shanghai, China, Summer 1985 and 1986.

Awarded Office of Faculty Development grant, University of Pittsburgh, for video production, "How Pittsburgh Media Report the News," Spring 1985.

Awarded Faculty of Arts and Sciences research grant, University of Pittsburgh, for personal essay "Coming to Terms with a Dying Father," Fall 1984.

Selected by College of General Studies, University of Pittsburgh, for "Apple for the Teacher" commendation, Winter 1983.

Presentations and Media Appearances

2000-02: Lecturer at synagogues in Georgetown, Ct., Acton and Chelmsford, Ma. Featured speaker at New Haven Jewish Community Center annual book fair. Kickoff speaker for annual lecture series at Atlanta Jewish community center. Scholar in residence (three days) at Temple Sinai in Denver. Guest lecturer in Jewish Studies at University of Alabama.

August 2001: Guest on The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel. Discussed ethical issues related to coverage of Congressman Gary Condit.

Fall 2000 - Spring 2001: Interviewed on "Jewish Perspective," WHDH-TV, "The World" (Public Radio International), and on North Carolina Public Radio; and in The Jewish Week and numerous other publications about Fragile Branches.

Nov. 2000: Quoted in Jewish Journal on media coverage of the Middle East

Aug. 2000: Appeared on "Greater Boston" on WGBH-TV and quoted in the Boston Globe on unanticipated overenrollments at Northeastern

Fall 1998: Interviewed on "The Connection" with Christopher Lydon about media mergers

August 1998: Interviewed on WCVB-TV, local ABC affiliate, and quoted in USA Today on suspension of Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle

June 1998: Interviewed in WCVB on firing of Boston Globe columnist Patricia Smith

1994-95: Interviewed on WGN Radio and National Public Radio in Chicago, Wisconsin public radio, the Ruth Jacobs show in New York, "Jewish Perspective" on WHDH-TV and did numerous newspaper interviews about Escape to Shanghai. Invited speaker at Boston Public Library and numerous temple and synagogue groups in the Boston area and throughout country.

May 1993: Served as panelist for conference on journalism ethics, New England Newspaper Association

Dec.1992: Panelist for mock press conference on media-business relations, Harvard Business School.