Dr. Ross Collins
Professor
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Office: Ehly 202
Phone: (701) 231-7295
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1992. I have been teaching at NDSU since 1993. In addition to my instructor's role, I serve as the department's director of the master's program, and coordinate the department's interdisciplinary major and minor in New Media and Web Design. I also am senior editor of the university's publishing division, the Institute for Regional Studies.
As a media historian, my research specialties cover World Wars I and II (1914-1918, 1939-1945), United States frontier journalism during the Long Drive Era (1866-1890), and French journalism, concentrating on the Third Republic (1871-1940). Recently I published a book considering children's activities during the world wars, Children, War and Propaganda.
I teach mass communication topics including editing, photojournalism, design and web design, media ethics and history, and several online classes.
This semester I am co-teaching COMM 450: Magazine Journalism with Dr. Elizabeth Crisp Crawford and COMM 750: Rise of Western Journalism. I will be teaching COMM 291 and COMM 313 (online) in the spring.
