Ranelle Knight-Lueth received her M.A. in 2006 and Ph.D.  in 2015 from the University of Iowa. Her dissertation focuses on the combat art of World War I, for which she received national fellowships from the Center of Military History and the Norman Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies. Since then, she has researched and lectured on other arts created during the Great War as well as other topics, including women in American art, Italian fascist art, and art of the National Parks. Recently, she served as an Associate Professor of Art History and the Director of Galleries and Collections at Coe College (Cedar Rapids). Knight-Lueth has participated in select national symposia and consortia, curated exhibitions at Coe College and with regional museums, served as a guest lecturer, and spoken at academic conferences.