Her research and teaching interests include modern Japanese and East Asian social and cultural history including Japanese photography history. Professor Ross recently published her book, Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth Century Japan, which examines the magazines and merchandise that promoted photography to ordinary Japanese people in the early twentieth century alongside a retail and consumer revolution that marketed a modern, tasteful, middle-class lifestyle. Apart from her research and writing, Professor Ross is also involved with the Japanese Studies Program and partakes in the Japan Study Abroad trip offered at DePaul.