Assoc. Prof. Alan S. Ross, BA MSt DPhil (Oxon.)

Professorship in the History of Educational Ideas and Practices 

Department of Education
Sensengasse 3a/ Room O4.02
A-1090 Vienna

Phone: +43 1 4277 46766

E-Mail: alan.ross@univie.ac.at

Curriculum Vitae

Office hours: by e-mail-arrangement.

Courses at the University of Vienna (u:find)

Projects

His research focuses on

  • The social and cultural history of education
  • Schools in early modern Europe; schools and the Republic of Letters
  • The history of animals; natural history education
  • Material culture and museum pedagogy

Publications: u:cris

Ross AS. Beastly ambiguity – monkey theatre in Paris, 1650 - 1770. The Journal of Modern History. 2024 Aug 14.
Ross AS. Ungeboren und ausgestopft: Tierembryonen der Linck-Sammlung zwischen Naturalienkabinett und Lehrsammlung. In Stoye F, Mieth K, editors, Wunderkammer Waldenburg: Die ganze Welt im Kleinen . Dresden: Sandstein Kommunikation . 2024. p. 168-173
Ross AS. Taxidermie. In Serna P, Mellah M, Le Ru V, Piazzesi B, editors, Dictionnaire historique et critique des animaux. Paris. 2024. p. 532-537
Ross AS. Review Tamara Deluigi, Die Schule und ihre Problemkinder. (A)Normalität im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, eine historisch-systematische Analyse (Bad Heilbrunn, 2021). Erziehungswissenschaftliche Revue (EWR). 2023.
Ross AS, Mayr T. Onlineprüfungen: Wissen interpretieren statt auswendig lernen. Der Standard. 2021 May 3.
Ross AS, Wächter O. Notabitur und "Matura light". Kurier. 2021 Jan 16.
Ross AS. The Animal Body As Medium: Taxidermy And European Expansion, 1775–1865. Past and Present. 2020 Nov 1;249(1):85-119. doi: 10.1093/pastj/gtaa004
Ross AS, Brühl U. Um den Abschluss betrogen. Kurier. 2020 Jul 4.
Ross AS. Eine Kriegsmatura für den Corona-Jahrgang? Falter. 2020 May 29.
Ross AS. Schools and education. In French A, editor, Early Modern Childhood: an introduction. Abingdon: Routledge. 2019
Ross AS. Review of Peter Sahlins, 1668: The Year of the Animal in France (New York, 2017). Isis: international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences. 2019 Jun.
Ross AS. Introduction: Preserving the Animal Body ; Cultures of Scholarship and Display, 1660–1914. Journal of Social History. 2019 May 21;52(4):1027-1032. doi: 10.1093/jsh/shz009
Ross AS. Recycling embryos: Old Animal Specimens in New Museums, 1660-1840. Journal of Social History. 2019 May 21;52(4):1087-1109. shz008. doi: 10.1093/jsh/shz008
Ross AS, (ed.). Special Issue : Preserving the Animal Body: Cultures of Scholarship and Display, 1660–1914. 4 ed. Oxford Academic, 2019. 464 p. (Journal of Social History; No. 4 Special Issue, Vol. 52).
Gromelski T, (ed.), Preusse C, (ed.), Ross AS, (ed.), Tricoire D, (ed.). Early modern European empires: The Holy Roman Empire and Poland-Lithuania in comparison. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016. 264 p.
Ross AS (Editorial Journalist). Faces of children: transgression and education 2015.
Ross AS. Learning by wrong-doing: aspiration and transgression among German pupils after the Thirty Years' War. Social History. 2015 Apr 23;40(2):230-246. doi: 10.1080/03071022.2015.1010781
Ross AS. Daum’s boys – schools and the Republic of Letters in early modern Germany. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. 256 p.
Ross AS. Review of Pia F. Cuneo (ed.), Animals and Early Modern Identity (Ashgate, Farnham/ Surrey, 2014). European History Quarterly. 2015;45(3).
Ross AS. Pupils' choices and social mobility after the thirty years war: A quantitative study. The Historical Journal. 2014 Jan 1;57(2):311-341. doi: 10.1017/S0018246X13000575