Luana Ross
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Masters: Portland State University,
Ph.D.: University of Oregon (1992),Luana K. Ross | |
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| Born | 1949 (age 76–77) |
| Citizenship | Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and American |
| Education | Bachelors: University of Montana (1979),
Masters: Portland State University, Ph.D.: University of Oregon (1992), |
| Employer | University of Washington |
| Notable work | Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of American Criminality |
| Awards | Best Book of 1998 by the American Political Science Association, Newberry Library Fellowship (Chicago) in 1994 and 1995, Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1995 |
Luana K. Ross (born 1949) is a Native American sociologist of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, located at Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Montana in 1979,[1] her master's degree from Portland State University,[2] and her doctorate in sociology from the University of Oregon in 1992, before serving as faculty at the University of California at Davis and UC Berkeley.[3] Since 1999 she has been a faculty member for the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She has also been an adjunct professor in American Indian Studies at the University of Washington since 1999. In January 2010, she was appointed president of Salish Kootenai College, effective in July of that year.[4] She resigned from the position in 2012.[5]
