Cynthia Ross is the Editor for World History Connected and an Assistant Professor of History at East Texas A&M University near Dallas, Texas. She earned her doctoral degree from Washington State University in 2011, with specializations in World History, War and Society, Environmental History, Food History, and American Empire. She has extensive experience teaching World History, U.S. History from a global perspective, historiography and theory, and courses in her specializations to diverse student populations including undergraduate, graduate, dual credit, first generation university students, and active adult learners. She holds numerous research awards including the Global Human Rights Fellowship and is a Global Fellow at her university. Her most recent publication “Dinner in the Trenches: Army Rations, Rolling Kitchens, and the Logistics of Food for American Doughboys” is in Mandy Link and Matthew Stith, Eds., Beyond No Man’s Land: New Perspectives of the First World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). Her two current monograph projects focus on the role of botanists in creating militarized landscapes in the Pacific and a history of Texas wine.