Thomas E. Ross (born 1942) is a retired professor of geography at the

University of North Carolina at Pembroke The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP or UNC Pembroke) is a public university in Pembroke, North Carolina. UNC Pembroke is a master's level degree-granting university and part of the University of North Carolina system. Its history i ...

. Educated at

Marshall University Marshall University is a public research university in Huntington, West Virginia. It was founded in 1837 and is named after John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. The university is currently composed of nine colleges: L ...

(BA in 1968 and MS in 1969) he gained his Ph.D. in geography from

University of Tennessee at Knoxville The University of Tennessee (officially The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; or UT Knoxville; UTK; or UT) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, ...

in 1977. He is an internationally recognized authority on

Carolina bay Carolina bays are elliptical to circular depressions concentrated along the Atlantic seaboard within coastal New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and north Florida.Kaczorowski, R. T. (1977) '' ...

s, having written the definitive bibliography of bays (''Carolina Bays: An Annotated Bibliography''. Carolinas Press. ) In addition to his widely praised research on the bays, Ross has written books on American Indians, including ''American Indians: A Cultural Geography'' and ''American Indians in North Carolina: Geographic Interpretations''. He is a native of

West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the Bur ...

and currently resides in Southern Pines, NC.

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American geographers Living people 1942 births University of North Carolina faculty Date of birth missing (living people) Marshall University alumni University of Tennessee alumni People from Southern Pines, North Carolina {{geographer-stub