Jarod Roll is Professor of Missouri History in the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy and the Department of History at the University of Missouri. He specializes in the modern labor and working-class history of the United States, with an emphasis on Missourians, particularly in agriculture and rural industries. Roll is the author of Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South and Poor Man’s Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950, and coauthor of The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor’s Southern Prophets in New Deal America, among other works. Roll’s books have won prizes from the Labor and Working-Class History Association, the Southern Historical Association, the Mining History Association, the Working Class Studies Association, and the State Historical Society of Missouri. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History and the Missouri Historical Review, and in the Distinguished Lectureship Program of the Organization of American Historians. Roll received his PhD and MA in History from Northwestern University and his BA in History from Missouri Southern State University. He is from Mount Vernon, Missouri.