Carrie A. Meyer is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and has been a full-time faculty member since 1988. She has written numerous papers, books, reports etc. Since Nov 2000, she has focused her research on the history of the rural Midwest. One outcome was the book Days on the Family Farm, published by University of Minnesota Press in 2007. Her article “Wisconsin’s Gas Engines” will appear in the Wisconsin Magazine of History in spring 2016.