Senior Historian Garry Adelman, deputy director of HAI's History Division, conducts historical research and drafts manuscript and exhibit text. His project experience includes a wide variety of topics ranging from the military to labor unions to utility companies. He created interpretive plans for two Virginia Civil War battlefields and has managed several exhibit design projects. Mr. Adelman is the author of six books and seven articles concerning the Civil War. He earned a BA in business from Michigan State University and an MA in history from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. A frequent lecturer at Civil War Round Tables, he has also appeared as a speaker on various historical productions, including one aired on the History Channel. Mr. Adelman serves as vice president of the Center for Civil War Photography and is a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg.

Historian William Armstrong conducts historical and litigation research. His project experience includes research into topics such as defense contracts, product liability, defense production facilities, military occupational health issues, and historic military sites. He graduated summa cum laude from Towson University in 2002 with a BS in history and political science, and he was awarded Departmental Honors in History for his thesis on the history of the Martin B-26 medium bomber. Mr. Armstrong's areas of specialty include twentieth-century military history and US defense policy. He is a member of the US Naval Institute, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and Western Front Association.

Research Historian Mary Bays conducts historical and litigation research. She graduated magna cum laude from Furman University in June 2007 with a BA in history. In 2007 Ms. Bays won a Daughters of the American Revolution Prize in American History. She has written histories of the Washington County Courthouse, Jonesborough, Tennessee, and the Hagood House, Greenville, South Carolina. The latter, "If These Walls Could Talk: The Historic Blythe-Goodwin-Hagood House," won a Phi Alpha Theta award at the Upcountry South Carolina History Conference. Ms. Bays also interned with the US Diplomacy Center, where she assisted with the care of artifacts and an on-line photograph catalog.

Research Historian Gene Fielden conducts historical and litigation research. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from American University with a BA in history, receiving Honors in History for his senior thesis, an archival exploration of US extraditions to post-Holocaust Hungary. He is a former staff member of the Interagency Working Group at the National Archives in College Park, created to enact the terms of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Mr. Fielden is able to speak and read near-fluent German, having studied abroad at the Freie Universität in Berlin in 2004 and subsequently returning to the country on a Fulbright grant in 2006.

Senior Historian Jason Gart conducts historical and litigation research. Dr. Gart was the founder and president of History International Inc., an Arizona-based consulting firm that provided historical research services. Clients included the cities of Phoenix and Goodyear; National Park Service; Dames & Moore Group Company; and Young Vogl LLP. Between 2000 and 2002, he served as managing director of Ask a Historian.com, an Internet company. Dr. Gart's first book, Papago Park: A History of Hole-in-the-Rock from 1848-1995, was published in 1998. He graduated cum laude with a B.S. in history and politics from Drexel University and received an M.A. in public history and his Ph.D. in modern United States and Western history from Arizona State University. His dissertation, titled "Electronics and Aerospace Industry In Cold War Arizona, 1945-68: Motorola, Hughes Aircraft, Goodyear Aircraft," examines the history of the electronics and aerospace industries in Arizona during the opening decades of the Cold War.

Research Historian Taylor Gray conducts historical and litigation research. She graduated from Smith College with a B.A. in history in 2006. Her primary topics of interest include Modern Art and the Spanish Civil War. Ms. Gray spent her junior year studying at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Madrid, Spain. She also served as an intern at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, where she helped catalogue a collection of Herman Melville's works as well as various maritime artifacts owned by the museum.

Historian James Hesen conducts historical and litigation research. He holds a master's degree in US history from Salisbury University. Mr. Hesen won the Miles-Stevenson Research Prize in History in 2001 for a biographical sketch of Randall Revell, an influential resident of Maryland and Virginia during the seventeenth century. He also won local recognition for his thesis "Dredging the Wicomico River: Economic Opportunities and Efforts for Conservation." In addition to performing a variety of previous research work, Mr. Hesen served in the US Army and Army Reserve Medical Corps.

Historian Janet Holsinger, deputy director of HAI's International Division, conducts historical research and drafts exhibit text. Within the International Division, she has a variety of project experience, including directing historical research projects for museum exhibits; drafting exhibit text; photographic research; moving image research; and conducting research relating to the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the United States on behalf of financial institutions. Additionally, Ms. Holsinger has experience in research relating to wartime facilities and government institutions, corporate succession, the nuclear industry, and manufactured gas plants. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree in history from the College of Wooster and holds a master's degree in education from the University of North Carolina. Ms. Holsinger also studied abroad in Vienna, Austria.

Research Historian Laura Moore conducts historical and litigation research. She graduated magna cum laude from The College of Wooster in 2006 with a BA in history and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Alpha Theta. Ms. Moore received the Robert G. Bone History Prize and the Cummings-Rumbaugh History Prize as well as departmental honors for her senior thesis, which focused on the political and social effects of the 1834 Poor Law on London and Victorian women. Ms. Moore studied abroad in London in the fall of 2004.

Historian Jennifer Randazzo conducts historical and litigation research. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in May 2004 with a BA in history and English. Prior to graduation, she spent a semester abroad in London and completed a research project on the history of the London Sewers Commissions. Also, Ms. Randazzo spent the summer of 2003 as a scholar at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City, doing research for a high school textbook on 1790s abolitionism in America.

Senior Historian James Rife conducts historical and litigation research. His project experience includes investigating the corporate and environmental history of manufactured gas operations and World War I and II era materials production facilities, documenting and analyzing Native American land transactions, researching the wartime experiences of individual veterans, and conducting oral histories. He also contributed to HAI's history of the DuPont company and recently published books on the histories of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, and the U.S. Indian Health Service of the U.S. Public Health Service. Mr. Rife earned associate's degrees in applied science and electrical and electronic technology from Southwest Virginia Community College, a BS in electrical engineering technology from Bluefield State College in West Virginia, and a BA in history from King College in Bristol, Tennessee, with a specialization in modern European and Russian history. He earned his MA in Virginia and early American history at Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg and has completed a year's coursework toward a Ph.D. in military history at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

Historian and Archivist Lee Sullivan works on archival projects and conducts oral histories and historical and litigation research. She has designed and created databases to address the document management, historical analysis, and historical presentation needs of clients. Ms. Sullivan has also worked on scanning and digitally enhancing images for heritage-related projects. Her project work includes writing a manuscript and developing various historical products for major commercial firms, creating a multimedia database presentation for a government agency, and conducting historical environmental site assessment work. Ms. Sullivan earned her bachelor's degree in religious studies from the University of Pennsylvania and her master's degree in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Historian Stephen Swisdak, deputy director of HAI’s Litigation Research Division, conducts a diverse range of historical and litigation research projects. Within HAI’s Litigation Research Division, Mr. Swisdak has managed a range of projects, including research pertaining to World War I-, World War II-, and Cold War-era military and government industrial facilities; common knowledge of chemical additives; manufactured gas plants; corporate successions; and Superfund and CERCLA cases. He is skilled in conducting research into federal records at the National Archives and Library of Congress, researching local records at state and county records repositories, and using the Freedom of Information Act to obtain access to previously classified government documents. Within the History Division, Mr. Swisdak is currently working on a history of Villa Julie College in Stevenson, Maryland. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history (summa cum laude) from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and a master’s degree in medieval history from Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Swisdak possesses many years of undergraduate teaching experience, having taught a European history survey course at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and an upper-division seminar at Johns Hopkins on the historical uses of writing.

Historian Paul Veneziano conducts historical and litigation research. His project experience includes environmental site assessment as well as naval contracts research. Mr. Veneziano earned his bachelor of arts degree from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, with a double major in history and political science. He graduated magna cum laude from the Honors Program with Distinction in history, was awarded the Raymond C. Dingledine scholarship, and was a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society. In his honors thesis, Mr. Veneziano researched George Kennan and the development of containment policy in 1947. Prior to HAI, he worked as a submissions associate in regulatory affairs at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development.

Research Historian Caitlin Verboon conducts historical and litigation research. She graduated magna cum laude from the College of William and Mary in 2006 with a BA in history and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta, and Omicron Delta Kappa. As a student, Ms. Verboon interned in the Architectural Collections Management Department in Colonial Williamsburg, completing several treatment and condition reports for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She received the Virginia Crouch Award for her thesis entitled “Apostles of Democracy: The Green Family in Nineteenth Century Politics.” Ms. Verboon also spent the summer of 2005 as a history scholar at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American history in New York City, where she transcribed and researched a collection of letters from a Civil War soldier for inclusion in a high school textbook.