1. Curriculum Vitae
Larry Ross, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
Lincoln University (Retired)
Address
3305D Clark Lane #154
Columbia, MO 65202
Phone: (573) 673-7414
Email: drlarryross@gmail.com
Personal
Born: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Citizenship: United States of America
Education
Ph.D. Anthropology
1999 University of Missouri-Columbia (Founded 1839)
Dissertation: Jazz Musicians in the Diaspora (Ethnomusicological
Ethnography)
M.A. Anthropology
1995 University of Missouri-Columbia
B.A. Anthropology (cum laude)
1993 Case Western Reserve University (Founded 1826)
B.A. History (cum laude)
1993 Case Western Reserve University
B.A. International Studies (cum laude)
1993 Case Western Reserve University
1988 The Ohio School of Broadcast Technique
Diploma (October 1989)

2. Professional Employment
2004 – 2016: Lincoln University (Founded 1866); Professor of Anthropology
(Retired June 30, 2016)
2015 – The Edwin Mellen Press Editorial Board (Anthropology)
2000 – 2004: University of Nebraska-Omaha (Founded 1908); Assistant
Professor of Anthropology & Assistant Professor of African American Cultural
Studies
1999 – 2000: University of Missouri-Columbia; Evaluation Coordinator in the
Social Sciences Unit of the Department of Rural Sociology & Academic
Coordinator for the McNair Scholars Program, Adjunct Researcher in the
Department of Anthropology
1998 – 1999: Stephens College (Founded 1833); Adjunct Professor of Cultural
Anthropology
1993 – 1999: University of Missouri-Columbia; Graduate Teaching Assistant &
Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Anthropology
1992 – 1993: The Cleveland Museum of Natural History; Kirtlandia Society
Donald S. Dean Research Scholar & Emily B. Brown Memorial Scholar -
Assistant to the Curator of Cultural Anthropology
Recent Teaching
Physical Anthropology & Archaeology, Contemporary Sociological Theory
(Graduate & Undergraduate), Modern Social Organizations (Graduate &
Undergraduate), Minority Relations (Graduate & Undergraduate),
Introduction to Anthropology, Social Problems, Seminar in Social
Problems (Graduate), Cultural Diversity, World Ethnography, Culture
Areas of the World (including Mayan Language & Culture), The Sociology
of Black Americans, Sociocultural Change (Graduate & Undergraduate),
Sociology of the Community (Graduate & Undergraduate), Seminar in
Complex Organizations, Comparative Cultures (Graduate), Nubia & Egypt
10,000 B.C. to 400 A.D. (Graduate & Undergraduate)

3. Previous Teaching
Ancient Egypt Recovery, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology & the
Concept of “Race”, Black American Culture, Introduction to Black Studies,
Ancient African Civilizations, Black Aesthetics
University Service
Employee Recognition Committee
Space Utilization Committee
Athletics Committee
Fine Arts/Distinguished Lecture Series Committee
Lincoln University Technology Committee
Ethnic Studies Center Committee
Library Services Committee
Student Retention Committee
Graduate Council Committee
Bachelor of Liberal Arts Advisory Committee
Commencement, Special Occasions and Convocations
Previous University Service
Social & Behavioral Sciences Promotion & Tenure Committee
Graduate Committee
Assessment and Policies Committee
Rules & Regulations Committee
Faculty and Staff Institute Committee
Vital Focus Team
Missouri Department of Higher Education Representative
CTL Director Search Committee (Chair)
First Year Experience Search Committee (Chair)
Assistant Professor of Sociology Search Committee
Assistant Professor of Social Work Search Committee
Department of Business Search Committees (3) for Assistant Professors
of Entrepreneurship and Marketing (2008)
Deliberative Polling Representative for Lincoln University 2007 (Stanford
University)
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences Faculty Senate
Representative

4. Honors, Awards, & Fellowships
Inaugural Exchange Professor, South Dakota State University, Fall 2005
Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Finalist,
African American Jazz Musicians in the Diaspora, Best
Research in Recorded Jazz, 2004
Who’s Who in American Education (7th Edition)
Who's Who in America (November 2003 Edition)
University of Nebraska at Omaha Exemplary Service to Students Award, April
2002
University of Missouri-Columbia Graduate Teaching Scholar, August 1998 May
1999
University of Missouri-Columbia Donald K. Anderson Graduate Teaching Award
(1997 – 1998)
The University of Missouri-Columbia Chancellor's Ridgel Fellowship, December
1995
The Sylvia Green-Rosenberg Award, Case Western Reserve University, May
1993
Case Western Reserve University Dean's High Honors List, Spring 1993, Fall
1992, & Fall 1989
Phi Alpha Theta International Honors in History Award, 1993
Who's Who Among Students in America’s Universities & Colleges, 1992-93
Case Western Reserve University Dean's Honors List, Fall 1991
International Association of Jazz Educators Award for Piano Performance, April
1990
Rotary International GSE Ambassador to Nigeria, 1988 (District 613 to District
914)

5. Professional Organization Affiliations
The American Anthropological Association
Phi Alpha Theta International History Honor Society
Delta Kappa Epsilon International Fraternity (Vice President, Beta Chi 1991 –
1992)
University of Missouri Alumni Association
Selected Conference, Meeting, Workshop, and Event Participation
Guest Speaker, U.S. Department of Agriculture MANNRS Program, Inman E.
Page Library, February 27, 2014
Guest Speaker and Panelist, Model United Nations, February 26, 2014
Performance, Inman E. Page Library Teleconferencing Center, Presidential
Inauguration Event, October 5th, 2013
Guest Speaker, the Dr. Jabulani Beza International Student Center’s
International Students Graduation/Appreciation Dinner, Lincoln University
Scruggs Ballroom, April 30, 2013
Performance: Lincoln University Annual Presidential Gala, Capitol Plaza Hotel
Atrium, April 6, 2013
Participant, African-American Read-In, Lincoln University Page Library
Teleconferencing Center, February 28, 2013
Participant, MANRRS/USDA Scholars Student Jazz & Poetry Event, Lincoln
University Scruggs Hall, February 12, 2013
Performance, Dr. Carolyn Mahoney, President Retirement Party; Lincoln
University’s Scruggs Hall, August 15, 2012

6. Performance, Lincoln University Annual Presidential Gala, Capitol Plaza Hotel
Atrium, April 10, 2010
Performance, Association of Teacher Educators Conference, The Chicago Hilton
Ballroom, Chicago, IL, February 14-15, 2010
Performance, LU Homecoming, with Rhonda Harper as opening act for The Ohio
Players, Capitol Plaza Hotel Ballroom, Jefferson City, MO, October 10, 2009
A Taste of Arts & Science, Memorial Union, University of Missouri-Columbia,
March 14, 2009
Performance, 44th National TRIO Day at Lincoln University, Scruggs Ballroom,
February 24, 2009
The Kirtlandia Society Thirtieth Annual Meeting, The Cleveland Museum of
Natural History, One Wade Oval, Cleveland, OH, August 8, 2009
Performance, The 1960s: Civil Rights & Jazz Program, Inman E. Page Library,
Lincoln University, February 22, 2008
Performance Series, Reach For The Stars, Jefferson City Public Schools,
Jefferson City, MO, Spring Semester 2008
Performances, Annual Presidential Gala, Capitol Plaza Hotel Atrium, April 2009,
April 2008, April 2007, & April 2006
Panelist, Forty-Eighth Nigerian Independence Anniversary Celebration, Nigerian
Cultural Association, Jefferson City, MO, September 27, 2008
Performance & Jazz Workshop, Richardson Auditorium, Humanities 200H Class,
October 2, 2008
Healing Communities Torn by Racism and Violence, Nobel Peace Laureate
Rigoberta Menchu Tum (Mayan), Memorial Union Room N210-211, University of
Missouri-Columbia, November 9, 2008
Performance, Celebrate Diversity, Inman E. Page Library, Lincoln University,
January 2, 2007

7. Performance, Celebrate Diversity, Inman E. Page Library, Lincoln University,
February 14, 2007
Performance, Annual President’s Concert, Richardson Auditorium, Lincoln
University, May 4, 2007
Performance, An Occasion to Savor, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Truman
Hotel, Jefferson City, MO, May 5, 2007
Lecturer & Performance, East Meets West, A Structural Analysis: Ravi Shankar
& Wes Montgomery, Page Library, Lincoln University, September 26, 2007
Lincoln University Representative, Deliberative Polling Institute, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, CA, September 27-29, 2007
Ghana and the African Diaspora, Dr. Michael Williams, Director, Aya Center
Research Fellow, University of Ghana, West Africa, University of Missouri,
Columbia, 212 Middlebush, October 3, 2007
Lecturer, Honors Program Reception, with President Dr. Carolyn Mahoney & Dr.
Amy Gossett, Inman E. Page Library Teleconferencing Center, Lincoln
University, December 1, 2007
Webmaster, Social & Behavioral Sciences, SiteBuilder Developer, January 21,
2006
2006 Department of Defense Suicide Prevention Conference, Hollywood, FL,
February 6-9, 2006
Chair, CTL Director Search Committee, Lincoln University, March 23, 2006
Workshop, Developing Winning Proposals, U.S. Department of Defense,
Memorial Hall, Lincoln University, March 27-28, 2006
The American Anthropological Association 105th Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA,
November 16, 2006
Performance, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Scholarship Program Fund-
Raiser, Lenoir Community Center, Lenoir Retirement Village, Columbia, MO,
March 5, 2005

8. Lecture, The Misrepresentation of Africa: An Anthropological Perspective, Inman
E. Page Library Ethnic Studies Center, April 19, 2005
Presentation, U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center, Executive Services Office,
Fort Leonard Wood, MO with President Dr. Carolyn Mahoney, Dr. Joe L.
Simmons, Dr. Patrick Henry, Dr. Antonio Holland, Dr. Robert Hancock, Dr.
Abdoulaye Bah, April 25, 2005
Workshop, The Eli Institute HBCU Faculty Entrepreneurship Summer Institute,
Howard University, June 15-17, 2005
Host, Dr. Meredith M. Redlin of South Dakota State University, Preliminary
Faculty Exchange Meetings, Lincoln University, June 27, 2005
Faculty Exchange Preliminary Meetings, South Dakota State University,
Brookings, SD, August 1-2, 2005
U.S. Army Research Laboratory Human Research & Engineering Directorate,
Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD, August 25-26, 2005
Performance, South Dakota State University Performing Arts Center, as Visiting
Associate Professor from Lincoln University, Friday, September 23, 2005
Lecture, Anthropology for Sociologists, South Dakota State University,
September 25, 2005
Performance, Hurricane Relief Variety Show, Richardson Auditorium, Lincoln
University, October 22, 2005
Workshop, National Highway Institute, U.S. Department of Transportation & the
Federal Highway Administration Training, MoDOT Headquarters, Jefferson City,
MO, March 16, 17, 2004
MoDOT OJT Review Team Meeting, MoDOT Headquarters, Jefferson City, MO,
August 25, 2004
Lecture, Jazz Musicians in Europe: 1919 – 1945, University of Nebraska at
Omaha Black Studies Colloquium 2000, Omaha, NE, May 7-9, 2000

9. Lecture, Jazz Musicians, Mortality Rates, and Race, Central States Anthropology
Society Meeting, Kansas City, MO, April 1-3, 1998
Chair of the Invited Session Sense & Sensibility: From Perception to Cognition
and Salience Counts: A Domain Analysis of English Color Terms, The American
Anthropological Association 93rd Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 16-20,
1994
Grant Received
United States Army Research Lab (ARL), 2005 – 2006 Co-Principal Investigator;
Military Suicide Prevention Research, $573,084.00
Publications
2013 Nubia & Egypt: From Prehistory to the Meroitic Period. The Edwin Mellen
Press, New York and Wales, United Kingdom (ISBN-13: 978-0773426467; ISBN-
10: 0773426469).
2011 “An Anthropological Solution to the ‘Race’ Problem in America,” in College
Services: The Connections That Count www.nacas.org
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/JILQ0411/index.php?startid=37
2010 “Frederick Douglass in Europe.” The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia
(Hardcover), Dr. James L. Conyers, Jr. Editor, Greenwood Publishing Group,
Westport, CT (ISBN-13: 978-0313319884).
2008 “Malcolm X: Digital Media and Internet Resources.” Malcolm X: A Historical
Reader (Hardcover), Dr. James L. Conyers, Jr. & Dr. Andrew P. Smallwood
Editors, Carolina Academic Press (ISBN-13: 978-0890892282).
2006 “Aimé Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, and the Concept of Black Aesthetics.”
Reevaluating the Pan-Africanism of W.E.B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey. James
L. Conyers, Jr. Editor, The Edwin Mellen Press, New York and Wales, United
Kingdom (ISBN: 0-7734-5954-5).
2005 “Egyptology.” The Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Dr. James Birx Editor,
Sage Publications, United Kingdom (ISBN: 0-7619-3029-9).

10. 2003 African American Jazz Musicians in the Diaspora. The Edwin Mellen Press,
New York and Wales, United Kingdom (ISBN: 0-7734-6857-9).
2003 “The Interaction Sphere of Nubia and Egypt: From the Old Kingdom to the
Meroitic Period.” Afrocentricity and the Academy, James L. Conyers, Jr. Editor,
McFarland & Co. Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, NC and London (ISBN: 0-7864-
1542-8).
2001 “Jazz Musicians in Postwar Europe & Japan.” African American Jazz &
Rap, James l. Conyers, Jr. Editor, McFarland & Company Publishers, Jefferson,
NC and London (ISBN: 0-7864-0828-6).
2001 “Jazz Musicians in Europe: 1919-1945.” Civil Rights, Black Arts, and the
Black Power Movements in America, James L. Conyers, Jr. Editor, Ashgate
Publishing, United Kingdom (ISBN: 0-7546-1806-4).
1997 Robert A. Benfer Jr., N. Louanna Furbee, Kelly Maynard,Sarah Quick, and
Larry Ross, and J. Jerome Smith. "The Emergence of Color Cognition from Color
Perception." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 6(2):223-240.
1995 N. Louanna Furbee, Kelley Maynard, Sarah Quick, Larry Ross, and J.
Jerome Smith. “Salience Counts: A Domain Analysis of English Color Terms.”
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 5(2):203-216.
Fieldwork/Research Experience
Evaluation Coordinator (Logistic Regression Analysis) for the University of
Missouri-Columbia Social Sciences Unit (2000)
Conducted fieldwork in Denmark, France, and the Netherlands for African
American Jazz Musicians in the Diaspora (between 1983 and 1998)
Reviewer for Books & Manuscripts
Impact of Black Nationalist Ideology on American Jazz Music of the 1960s and 1970s,
John D. Baskerville, Hardcover, Edwin Mellen Press
9780773466463, August 2003, 188 Pages
Anthropology, 9th Ed. William A Haviland, Paperback, Harcourt College Pub
9780155067554, July 1999
Foreign Languages
Yucatec-Maya (proficient)
French & Spanish (intermediate level)

11. Athletics
Case Western Reserve University Athletic Award for Varsity Tennis
Case Reserve Club Scholar/Athlete Award, Spring 1990
Computer Skills
Classroom Multimedia Presentations, Internet Applications (e.g.
videoconferencing), Wireless LAN Installation & Encryption, Hardware Installation
& Upgrading, Windows OS, Mac OS, Microsoft Office XP Professional Suite, DOS,
SAS System 8, Microsoft Small Business Server Premium Edition, Microsoft
Expression Web, (web page authoring), Registered Microsoft Technology Partner
References
Dr. Giovanni Bennardo (UIUC), Professor of Anthropology, Department of
Anthropology and Cognitive Studies Program, Northern Illinois University,
Dekalb, IL 60115. (815) 753-8574; e-mail: bennardo@niu.edu
Dr. Vincent E. McHale (Penn State), Professor of Political Science, Case
Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106. (216)
368-2425; e-mail: vem@po.cwru.edu
Dr. Michael C. Robbins (Minnesota), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology &
Statistical Methods, University of Missouri-Columbia, 208 Swallow Hall,
Columbia, MO 65211. (573) 657-2021; e-mail: RobbinsM@missouri.edu
Dr. Ralph Rowlett (Harvard), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology & Archaeology,
University of Missouri-Columbia, 202 Swallow Hall, Columbia, MO 65211. (573)
642-2365; e-mail: RowlettR@missouri.edu