Background
Becki Ross was born on March 16, 1959 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, in the family of Chuck and Carol (Van Horne) Ross.
Becki Ross was born on March 16, 1959 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, in the family of Chuck and Carol (Van Horne) Ross.
In 1982 Becki received Bachelor of Arts at University of Western Ontario. Then she earned Master of Arts at Queen’s University in 1984, then she got Doctor of Philosophy at University of Toronto in 1992.
Since 1995, Dr. Becki Ross has held a joint appointment in the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice and the Department of Sociology. She teaches and researches in the areas of the history of sexuality, family, gender relations, qualitative methods, anti-racist studies, critical sport studies, and queer culture. She has supervised graduate students on diverse topics: the history of sexual education in BC, representations of gender and ‘race’ in video games and mainstream advertising, queer spaces on Canadian university campuses, contemporary butch/femme relations, bi-racial South Asian women’s heterosexuality, inter-racial white/Asian gay male relationships, and queer courtship & marriage in Vancouver. Dr. Ross’s publications appear the Journal of Historical Sociology, Sexualities, Journal of Women’s History, Labour/le travail, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Journal of the History of Sexuality. With Sharon Lebenkoff she completed a 35-page chapter for McGraw Hill Ryerson on themes of dating, marriage, cohabitation, and same-sex relations. With Oralia Gomez-Ramirez, Dr. Ross contributed an article on the state regulation of recruiters in the adult entertainment industry for a special issue on “Burlesque” by the Canadian Theatre Review. Becki is completing a manuscript titled, Expelled: The Neo-Colonial Rule of Unruly Sexual Subjects in Vancouver, 1975-1985. On the administrative front, Dr. Ross was the co-chair of Critical Studies in Sexuality. From 2009-2012 she served as the Chair of the undergraduate program in Women’s and Gender Studies. In 2012-2013, Dr. Ross was a consultant on the exhibit, “Sex Talk in the City: the classroom, the bedroom, the street” for the Museum of Vancouver. She coordinated the first ‘all sex worker’ panel at the MOV in April 2013, and co-led, with Jamie Lee Hamilton, “Strolling the Stroll,” a commemorative tour of 10 landmarks along what was once the Davie Street stroll in Vancouver’s West End.
Becki has a companion Ingrid E. Stitt.