Dorothy Ross (historian)

Dorothy Ross
Born	(1936-08-13) August 13, 1936 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Spouse	Stanford G. Ross
Academic background
Alma mater	Smith College Columbia University
Doctoral advisor	Richard Hofstadter
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	History of science
Institutions	Princeton University University of Virginia Johns Hopkins University

Dorothy Ross (born 1936) is an American historian and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She attended Smith College and Columbia University and taught at Hunter College before Johns Hopkins. Her books include the G. Stanley Hall: The Psychologist as Prophet (1972) and The Origins of American Social Science (1991).