Image Faculty Title Professor Chair of Liberal Arts Education PhD, University of Colorado-Boulder MA, New York University BA, Carleton College Email Address gronning@mcad.edu Gerald Ronning is a professor and the chair of Liberal Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. A graduate of Carleton College, Ronning holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Colorado-Boulder and an MA in history from New York University. While in Colorado he coordinated the roadside historical marker program for the Colorado Historical Society. His scholarship has won prizes from the Center for the American West and the Labor and Working Class History Association, and he is the 2013 recipient of the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award. His current research is in US labor and cultural history.