Craig Wollner, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Associate Dean, College of Urban and Public Affairs

Dr. Wollner was associate dean since 2004 but had a long and distinguished
history with PSU where he received a B.S. in History, with a minor in
Literature and Political Science in 1966 and an M.A. in Modern European
History in 1969. He received his Ph.D. in European and American Intellectual
and Social History from the University of New Mexico in 1975.

He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of MetroscapeR, a periodical of CUPA's
Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies. His main teaching
responsibilities included courses such as Foundations of American Medicine,
American Medicine in the Twentieth Century, American Technology and
Engineering, American Intellectual History, American Political History, and
American Labor History. He also taught in the Transnational Program of the
OUS-Waseda University Partnership on globalization and comparative
Japanese-American issues. His research reflected an interest in regional
history encompassing those topics. He was a productive and noted scholar
authoring, co-authoring or editing seven books.

Craig also served two terms as president of the PSU-AAUP chapter and
participated in many campus and inter-campus committees. He was especially
proud of his service as President of the Board of the Oregon Jewish Museum.

Publications & Awards
Electrifying Eden: Portland General Electric, 1889-1965
Tthe City Builders: One Hundred Years of Union Carpentry in Portland, Oregon with Gordon B. Dodds
The Silicon Forest with W. Tracy Dillon, eds.
A Richer Harvest: the Literature of Work in the Pacific Northwest ed., S. L. Sanger
Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of World War II Hanford