Ellen Ross

Ellen Ross is professor of history and women's studies at Ramapo College where her research has focused on the contributions of women in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Britain. Her extensive writings on these subjects include the volumes Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918 (1993) and Slum Journeys: Lady Explorers "In Darkest London" (2007). She will be working on her current book length project, Missionaries, Social Workers and 'Valiant Warrior Queens': From Social Service to Global Activism in Britain, 1914-1950, as a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow this year at the National Humanities Center.