Ross F. Collins is Associate Professor of Communication at North Dakota State University, Fargo. He edited The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting, Volume 5: World War I (Greenwood Press 2005), and has published numerous scholarly articles on aspects of World War I, French journalism, and American frontier journalism. A former journalist and photographer, Collins has contributed more than 800 articles and photographs to a wide variety of non-academic publications. He has a Ph.D. in journalism history from the University of Cambridge, and is treasurer of the American Journalism Historians Association.