Edward Alsworth Ross (1866-1951) was an American sociologist and a major figure of early criminology. He graduated from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1886 and held the position of Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Works
- Social Control (1901)
- Sin and Society (1907)
- Social Psychology (1908)
- Italians In America (1914)
- The Principles of Sociology (1920)
- The Russian Bolshevik Revolution (1921)
- The Social Trend (1922)
- The Russian Soviet Republic (1923)

