Michael A. Ross

Michael A. Ross is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland at College Park where he teaches courses on United States History.  He is the author of Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Civil War Era (LSU Press, 2003) which won the George Tyler Moore Civil War Center's 2004 Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship and the 2005 Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award.  He has also authored numerous articles which have appeared in Civil War History, Journal of Southern History, Journal of Women's History, American Nineteenth Century History, and other periodicals.  Several of his articles have won prizes including the Southern Historical Association's Fletcher M. Green and Charles Ramsdell Award.  He holds a law degree from Duke University and a Ph.D in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He is currently working on a book about New Orleans during Reconstruction (to be published by Oxford University Press).