Luana Ross | Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Associate Professor Emerita, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

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Fields of Interest

American American Indian/Native American Crime and Criminality Crime and Deviance Documentary Feminism Film/Cinema Indigenous Indigenous Research Methodologies Prisonization Settler Colonialism Social Change Visual Sociology

Biography

Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1992

Professor Ross has been a member of the Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies faculty since 1999. She received her PhD from the University of Oregon in 1992. Her research interests include Criminology and deviance, race, ethnic relations, gender, documentary film.

Research

Selected Research

Luana Ross. Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of American Criminality. U of Texas P, 1998.

Affiliations

Home Department

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies