IMS Faculty & Staff - Craig Wollner

I was educated at Portland State University (PSU) where I got a B.S., in History, with minors in Literature and Political Science, in 1966. I also took an M. A., Modern European History at PSU in 1969. I received the Ph. D. in European and American Intellectual and Social History from the University of New Mexico in 1975. My dissertation was entitled "Modernization and Discourse: T. S. Eliot, B. F. Skinner, and Herbert Marcuse as Studies in the Social Foundations of Intellectual History Since 1890."

My first full-time academic jobs were one-year appointments at Lewis and Clark College in Portland and Willamette University in Salem. I am currently Professor of Social Science and in the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (IMS) as a Research Fellow at Portland State University (PSU). I have been at PSU full-time since 1981, beginning as Coordinator of Cooperative Education in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and associated faculty in the Department of History. Since 1990 I have been (for 51 percent of my appointment), a faculty member in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and since 1993 in University Studies teaching History courses. From 1993-2004, 49 percent of my appontment was dedicated to work with IMS.

At IMS, my main job was as Editor-in-Chief of Metroscape, the Institute's main periodical. I wsa also the edictor of the biennial Metropolitan Briefing Book, a work intended for elected and appointed government officals assessing the state of the Portland region.

In the other part of my job at PSU, I am Chair for the "Professions and Power" course cluster in University Studies and instructor of American history courses within the cluster. I was a member of the PSU President's Faculty Advisory Committee for 2001-2.

My teaching responsibilities include 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.

The products of my research reflect my interest in regional history. I am currently working on a history of housing discrimination in Oregon; another colleague, Tracy Dillon of the English Department, and I published in 1999 a readings book on Pacific Northwest working class literature entitled A Richer Harvest;. I have 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.

My creative Interests include squash, tennis, hiking and traveling with my wife Pat. In the Spring and Summer of 2000, my interest in travel was served when I was able to live, teach, and travel in Japan.

My other professional interests and activities include membership in the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association. I am Past President of the Oregon University System Interinstitutional Faculty Senate, a body participating in the hared governance of the Oregon university System.

Craig Wollner
Editor-in-Chief, Metroscape magazine
Associate Dean, College of Urban & Public Affairs
750 Urban Center
PO Box 751
Portland, OR 97207-0751
503-725-5484
wollnercr@pdx.edu