Ronald Bayor

Professor and Chair

(PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1970) is a historian who specializes in urban, ethnic and immigration history. He is the founding editor of Journal of American Ethnic History and served as editor from 1981-2004. He is author of Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929-1941 (Choice outstanding academic book for 1978); Fiorello LaGuardia: Ethnicity and Reform; and Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta (Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America ). He is also coauthor of Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech 1885-1985; editor of Neighborhoods in Urban America; co-editor of The New York Irish (James S. Donnelly, Sr. prize of the American Conference for Irish Studies for best book in history and social sciences), and editor of Race and Ethnicity in America: A Concise History and The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America. He has been the recipient of Georgia Tech's Outstanding Teacher Award and the Geoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award. He has also received the Immigration and Ethnic History Society's Distinguished Service Award and the Association for Asian American Studies Lifetime Service Award. He is now serving as president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for a three year term (2006-2009).

Contact Information: D.M. Smith 212
Phone: 404.894.6834
E-mail: ronald.bayor@hts.gatech.edu