Dr. Ronald H. Bayor received his Ph.D (1970) from the University of Pennsylvania and joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1973 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1983. He served as chair of the School of History, Technology, and Society from 2006 - 2011. He specializes in urban, ethnic, immigration, and race relations history. He is also the founding editor of the Journal of American Ethnic History and served in that position from 1980-2004, for which he won the Distinguished Editor Award of The Council of Editors of Learned Journals (2008). He has authored a number of books and articles including: Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews and Italians of New York City, 1929-1941, which was selected as an outstanding book by Choice magazine (1978); Fiorello LaGuardia: Ethnicity and Reform (1993); Race and the Shaping of Twentieth Century Atlanta (1996), which received an outstanding book award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America; coauthored Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985 (1985); edited Neighborhoods in Urban America (1982), Race and Ethnicity in America: A Concise History (2003) and The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America (2004). He has also co-edited The New York Irish (1996), which received the James S. Donnelly, Sr, prize for best book in history and social sciences by the American Conference for Irish Studies. Recently his edited Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans (2011) was selected by the American Library Association journal Booklist as one of the best reference works of 2011.  Bayor has won three teaching awards including the Georgia Tech Outstanding Teaching Award, a Distinguished Service Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, and a Lifetime Service Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. He served as president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society from 2006-2009.  His teaching specialties include undergraduate courses on Cities in American History, Modern America, and U.S. since 1877 and graduate courses on Urbanization and Comparative Development. He is presently working on one edited book dealing with immigration, race, and ethnicity and an authored one on Ellis Island, America's main immigrant receiving station.