Craig Wollner was educated at Portland State University (PSU) where he received a B.S. in History, with a minors in Literature and Political Science in 1966 and an M.A. in Modern European History at PSU in 1969. He received his Ph.D. in European and American Intellectual and Social History from the University of New Mexico in 1975.

Dr. Wollner is Editor-in-Chief of Metroscape®, a periodical of CUPA's Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies. His main teaching responsibilities have 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 teaches in the Transnational Program of the OUS-Waseda University Partnership on globalization and comparative Japanese-American issues. His research reflects an interest in regional history encompassing those topics.

He is currently working on a history of housing discrimination in Oregon. With Tracy Dillon of the PSU English Department, he published a readings book on Pacific Northwest working class literature entitled A Richer Harvest. He has been author, co-author, or editor of five other books in regional business, economic, technology and labor history, including: ed., Edward Coman and Helen Gibbs, Time, Tide, and Timber: A History of Pope & Talbot; Electrifying Eden: Portland General Electric, 1889-1965; The City Builders: The Carpenters Union in Portland Oregon, 1883-1983; The Silicon Forest: High Technology in Washington County, Oregon (with Gordon Dodds); and ed., S.L. Sanger, Working on the Bomb: A History of WWII Hanford.