Ranelle Knight-Lueth received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Iowa in 2015 with emphases in American art, nineteenth century European art, and Japanese art from the Edo period. Although she has numerous interests, including environmental and landscape art, women artists, and international propaganda art, she purposefully selected her dissertation topic on the combat art of World War I due to her fascination with Harvey Dunn and other early twentieth-century American illustrators. While working on her dissertation, 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. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Art History at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.