Gerald Ronning is professor and chair of Liberal Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. A graduate of Carleton College, Ronning holds a PhD in history from the University of Colorado-Boulder and a MA in history from New York University. His scholarship has won prizes from the Center for the American West and the Labor and Working Class History Association, and he is the recipient of the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award. His current research is in US labor and cultural history.