Thomas E. Ross

Thomas E. Ross (born 1942) is a retired professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.^[1] Educated at Marshall University (BA in 1968 and MS in 1969) he gained his Ph.D. in geography from University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1977.^[1] He is an internationally recognized authority^{[citation needed]} on Carolina bays, having written the definitive^{[citation needed]} bibliography of bays (Carolina Bays: An Annotated Bibliography. Carolinas Press. ISBN 1-891026-09-7) In addition to his widely praised research^{[citation needed]} 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 and currently resides in Southern Pines, NC.