Eric Ross

Eric Ross is a doctoral candidate studying the history of nuclear weapons through the framework of genocide and mass atrocity. His research critically examines scientific agency, complicity, and resistance during the pivotal decade between the creation of the atomic bomb, its use on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the decision to develop 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 an organizer with the RootsAction Education Fund and coordinator of the National Teach-In Network. He also works as the administrative coordinator at the UMass Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies.

He teaches courses on the Modern Middle East and Apocalypse Cinema at UMass and Modern World History at Greenfield Community College. He regularly lectures and leads teach-ins—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 worked 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.