- Assistant Professor of Marine Sciences, Texas A&M University
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
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–presentAssistant Professor of Marine Sciences, Texas A&M University
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2013–2016Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sam Houston State University
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2010–2013Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Publications
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2016Perceptions of Resilience Among Coastal Emergency Managers, Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy
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2015Economic Uncertainty, Job Threat, and the Resiliency of the Millennial Generation’s Attitudes toward Immigration, Social Science Quarterly, with Stella Rouse
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2014Local Disaster Resilience: Administrative & Political Perspectives, Routledge
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2014Does decentralization improve perceptions of accountability? Attitudes in response to decentralization in Colombia, American Journal of Political Science, with Maria Escobar-Lemmon
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2011The Price of Personalizing Politics: Political Distrust and Economic Performance in Latin America, 1996-2006, Electoral Studies, with Maria Escobar-Lemmon
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2011Can 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
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2010Latino Representation and Education: Pathways to Latino Student Performance, State Politics & Policy Quarterly, with Stella Rouse & Kathleen Bratton
Grants and Contracts
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2017Early Career Fellowship
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding Source:
- National Academies Gulf Research Program
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2014Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards & Disaster Researchers
- Role:
- Fellow
- Funding Source:
- Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, National Science Foundation
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2011Research Program for Minority Serving Institutions
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Department of Homeland Security
Contact Ashley for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Galveston, Texas, U.S.
- Website
- X (formerly Twitter): @ashdross
- Article Feed
- ORCID
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