Alexander Reid Ross

aross@pdx.edu

alexanderreidross.net  

 

Recent Employment

Instructor, Portland State University, Dept. of Geography, Fall 2016 - present

Journalist, 2016 - present

 

Education

PhD candidate (ABD), Earth, Environment, Society, Portland State University, OR

M.A. with Distinction, Media and Communications, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, CH, 2015

B.A., International Studies: Comparative Development, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 2006

Diploma, Russian State University of the Humanities, Moscow, RU, 2005

 

Classes Taught

Pacific Northwest (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018)

Global Water Issues and Sustainability (Winter 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019)

Global Population and Food Supply (Winter 2017)

Geography of Globalization (Winter 2017)

 

Honors, Awards

Gamma Theta Upsilon Annual Award for Excellence in Geography (Theta Alpha Chapter)

Phi Kappa Phi multidisciplinary honor’s society

Gamma Theta Upsilon geography honor’s society

The Portland Mercury named Against the Fascist Creep one of top books of 2017

Nominated for John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teacher Award in 2017

Recognized by for Media Democracy in Action in Censored2016

Co-founded Earth First! Newswire, which has been named one of the top ten forestry resources by ForestryDegree.net every year since 2010

Completed the accelerated Guided Studies program at Trinity College, 2003

 

University Service

Teacher’s Assistant to professor Chris Morgante at Portland State, “Climate Change and Water Resources,” 2018, 2019

Graduate Representative for Portland State University Geography Department Promotion and Tenure Committee

Teachers’ Assistant to professor Michael Hardt at the European Graduate School, “The Commons,” 2014

 

Expert commentary

I have provided expert analysis on the far right for some of the largest news sources in the world, including The Atlantic, the Washington Post, LA Times, Al Jazeera, The New Republic, The Independent, SkyNews, and The Guardian, as well as smaller weeklies and media sites like The Alt, The Willamette Week, Quartz, Reveal, and The Intercept.

 

Language proficiency: Spanish and Russian

Computer proficiency: Html, R Script and R Markdown, SPSS, ArcGIS Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite

 

Authored Books

Politics and the People: An Introduction to Comparative Populist Studies (New York: Atropos Press, forthcoming).

Against the Fascist Creep (Oakland: AK Press, 2017).

 

Edited Anthologies

Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab (Oakland: AK Press, 2014).

 

Articles in Books and Journals (* = peer review)

-       “The Disinformation Ecosystem and the 2016 Elections: The Return of Geopolitics,” boundary 2, forthcoming.*

-       “Between Separatism and the State: White Nationalism in Oregon, 1882-1942,” Oregon Historical Quarterly, with Shane Burley, forthcoming.*

-       “‘Those mischievous elves of lore’: The Legend and Legacy of Earth Liberation,” A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation Front, eds. Anthony J. Nocella II, Carol Mendoza, Sean Parson, and Stephanie Eccles (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, in press 2018).*

-       “Lessons from exits foreclosed: An exilic interpretation of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions, 1910–1924,” Capital & Class, 42(2), April 2018.*

-       “The Kurdish Self-Defense Movement,” with Ary LaValle, Community Defense and Armed Resistance: Theory, Practice, and History, ed. scott crow (Oakland: PM Press, 2018).

-       “Review of No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms,” Association of American Geographers Review of Books, 5(4) Fall 2017.*

-       “Interview with Glen Coulthard,” Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, no. 1 (2015), pp. 188-199. *

-       “Energizing the Climate Movement,” with Sedge Ruiz, Upping the Anti, No. 17, (Toronto: UTA Publications, 2015).

-       “Against Deep Green Resistance,” with Michelle Renee Matisons, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, No. 28 (Oakland: IAS, 2015), pp. 101-118.

-       “Resistance to Alberta Tar Sands Megaloads in Idaho & Beyond” with Helen Yost, Grabbing Back, op. cit., pp. 281-306.

-       “Liberating Linguistics,” Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, No. 27 (Oakland: Institute for Anarchist Studies, 2014), pp. 40-53.

-       “Dismantling Counterinsurgency with Earth First!,” Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency, eds: Lara Messersmith-Glavin, Kristian Williams, Will Munger (Oakland: AK Press, 2013), pp. 213-231.

-       “Book Review: What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression,” Science and Society, Vol. 74, No. 2, April 2010, pp. 269.

 

Conferences, Workshops, and Academic Roundtables Attended

American Association of Geographers, Modeling Coupled Human-Water Systems, 2019

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Disinformation, 2019

American Political Science Association, Populism or a Fascist Turn, 2018

American Association of Geographers, Anarchist Geographies, 2018

Northwest Critical Theory Roundtable, Gonzaga University, 2018

Left Forum, John Jay University, Antifascism in Theory and Practice, 2017

Resistance Ecology, Portland State University, 2014