Eric Ross

Eric Ross is a doctoral candidate interested in situating the history of nuclear weapons within the framework of genocide and mass atrocity. His research aims to provide a critical (re)evaluation of scientific agency, activism, abolition efforts, and both popular and elite resistance during the pivotal decade between the creation of the atomic bombs, their use on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the decision to pursue the development of the hydrogen bomb.

In the 2024-2025 academic year, Eric is a Center for Justice, Law, and Society (CJLS) Fellow and a Research Affiliate with the Human Security Lab.

In addition to his academic pursuits, Eric is currently an organizer with the Teach-In Network sponsored by the RootsAction Education Fund and serves as the administrative coordinator at the UMass Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies.

He has also taught courses on the Modern Middle East and on representations of the apocalyptic imagination in film, and regularly lectures—both in and out of the classroom—on topics related to Palestine/Israel and U.S. empire in the Greater Middle East/SWANA region.

Previously, he has done research and policy work at the George Washington University Program On Extremism, the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Interfaith Encounter Association, and Genocide Watch.

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20th-century social movements in response to nuclear weapons, militarism, imperialism, and other forms of state violence.