Ashley Ross, PhD, is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University at Galveston where she teaches in the Marine Resources Management Program. Her research focuses on coastal disaster policy and community disaster resilience, taking a public policy and administration approach. She is a fellow with the Center for Texas Beaches and Shores and the discovery lead for Coastal Risk Reduction and Resilience with the Institute for Sustainable Communities. She holds a PhD and MA in Political Science. Her research has been funded by the Department of Homeland Security, and she is currently a National Academies Gulf Research Program Early Career Fellow.
Experience
–present
Assistant Professor of Marine Sciences, Texas A&M University
2013–2016
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sam Houston State University
2010–2013
Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Publications
2016
Perceptions of Resilience Among Coastal Emergency Managers, Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy
2015
Economic Uncertainty, Job Threat, and the Resiliency of the Millennial Generation’s Attitudes toward Immigration, Social Science Quarterly, with Stella Rouse
2014
Local Disaster Resilience: Administrative & Political Perspectives, Routledge
2014
Does decentralization improve perceptions of accountability? Attitudes in response to decentralization in Colombia, American Journal of Political Science, with Maria Escobar-Lemmon
2011
The Price of Personalizing Politics: Political Distrust and Economic Performance in Latin America, 1996-2006, Electoral Studies, with Maria Escobar-Lemmon
2011
Can Formal Rules of Order be Used as an Accurate Proxy for Behaviour Internal to a Legislature? Evidence from Costa Rica, Journal of Legislative Studies, with Michelle Taylor-Robinson
2010
Latino Representation and Education: Pathways to Latino Student Performance, State Politics & Policy Quarterly, with Stella Rouse & Kathleen Bratton
Grants and Contracts
2017
Early Career Fellowship
Role:
Principal Investigator
Funding Source:
National Academies Gulf Research Program
2014
Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards & Disaster Researchers
Role:
Fellow
Funding Source:
Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, National Science Foundation
2011
Research Program for Minority Serving Institutions