Ross in brief

Education

St. Joseph's Catholic Elementary School.
Moorhead (Minnesota) High School, 1973. Was not in top ten percent.
B.A., B.S., Minnesota State University Moorhead, history and mass communications, French minor, 1978. Worked harder than in high school: magna cum laude.
M.A., University of Warwick, Coventry, England, European cultural history, 1980.
Certificate of French Studies, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France, 1983.
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, England, French journalism history, 1992. Rotary Foundation Journalism Fellow, 1987-1988.

Jobs

First job: dishwasher, Country Kitchen restaurant, age 15. Other jobs: printer, busboy, sugar beet field worker, blackjack dealer.
First job out of college: photojournalist, Fargo-Moorhead Forum.
Several other jobs in journalism and public relations.
Last non-academic job: public relations officer, rural health office, University of North Dakota Medical School, 1991-93.
Teaching background: Minnesota State Moorhead, University of North Dakota.
Currently: Associate Professor of Communication, North Dakota State University.

Publications and Scholarship

More than 800 published stories and photos in a wide variety of publications (non-refereed).
29 art shows and juried exhibits (photography).
Book, monograph, seventeen articles (refereed).
Nineteen refereed presentations at national and international conferences.
Treasurer, American Journalism Historians Association.

Research interests

Hobbies

Yoga, aerobics, bridge, woodworking, photography, cooking, stamp collecting, wilderness canoeing, cycling, tae kwon do (3rd degree black belt, duffer status).

Personal

Marital status: single. Children: none. Dogs: one. Cats: two. Politics: liberal (of course).