Robert W. Rydell is professor of history at Montana State University. The recipient of the Mary C. Turpie Prize from the American Studies Association, he has held the Fulbright Program’s John Adams Chair in American Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and a fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Professor Rydell has authored many books and essays about world’s fairs, including All the World’s a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916.