Andrew Ross

Andrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University in the Faculty of Arts and Science. He earned a Master of Arts from the University of Aberdeen in 1978 and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1984. Educated also at Indiana University and the University of California, Berkeley, Ross joined NYU in 1993 to direct the Graduate Program in American Studies. Prior to this, he held teaching and research positions at Princeton University, Cornell University, the University of Rochester, the City University of New York, and in Shanghai.

His research specializations include labor and work, urban and suburban studies, intellectual history, social and political theory, ecology and technology, and cultural studies. Ross has authored and edited over twenty books that have shaped discourse in cultural studies, labor politics, urbanism, and environmental justice. Key publications encompass The Failure of Modernism: Symptoms of American Poetry (Columbia University Press, 1986), No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (Routledge, 1989), Strange Weather: Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits (Verso, 1991), The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature’s Debt to Society (Verso, 1994), Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice (NYU Press, 1998), Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times (NYU Press, 2009), Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City (Oxford University Press, 2011), Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal (OR Books, 2014), Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel (Verso, 2019; winner of the Palestine Book Award), Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing (Metropolitan Books/Holt, 2021), and Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality (OR Books, 2022; with Julie Livingston). Among his edited volumes are Science Wars (Duke University Press, 1996), No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers (Verso, 1997), and The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor (OR Books, 2015). Ross holds affiliations with the American Association of University Professors and the American Studies Association.

Professional Email: andrew.ross@nyu.edu