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Brian
W. Martin is History Associates' president and chief operating
officer and has been with the company since 1984. He oversees a wide
range of research and historical analyses to help lawyers establish
the facts at issue in legal cases. He has expertise in gaining access
to public records and researching the historical context of American
business-government relations, the military-industrial complex, and
environmental regulation. Dr. Martin has developed research plans and
led projects that examine historical developments in the chemical, petroleum,
aerospace, nuclear, metals, electrical, transportation, and other industries.
He has also investigated water rights issues, Native American claims,
veterans' war records, occupational health matters, and real estate
transactions. Dr. Martin has provided expert witness testimony regarding
a legislative history question. He frequently works with other HAI divisions
to develop and implement joint projects and also participates on interdisciplinary
teams with attorneys, scientists, and engineers. Dr. Martin has also
written a labor-management relations history and developed a comprehensive
records management program under contract to the US Department of Energy's
Southwestern Power Administration. He earned a bachelor's degree in
history from Gettysburg College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa;
he also earned his master's degree in applied history and social science
and his Ph.D. in history and policy from Carnegie Mellon University.
Gabriele
G. Carey, C.A., an HAI vice president, directs History Associates'
West Coast office in the Los Angeles area and has worked for HAI since
1989 as a senior archivist and senior historian.
She is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists and sits on the
California Historical Records Advisory Board. Dr. Carey has provided
records management and archives assessment and processing services for
a number of California's local governments, including the counties of
Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and Santa Clara, and the cities
of Corona and Santa Barbara. Other clients have included the state of
California, the University of California, the Seabee Museum in Port
Hueneme, and environmental/ cultural resources firms. Dr. Carey also
manages litigation research projects and conducts research regarding
land use issues, Native American claims, and water rights disputes.
She brings her extensive knowledge of local, state, and federal sources
to historical investigations of environmental sites and occupational
health matters. Dr. Carey holds bachelor's, master's, and doctoral
degrees in history from the University of California at Riverside and
a master's degree in German language and literature from the University
of California at Los Angeles.
Donald
Donoghue, CPA, director of Finance/Contracts, handles HAI's
financial reporting and operations, accounting systems, contracts administration,
budgeting, and related activities. He directs the financial affairs
of the firm, including the administrative and financial aspects of HAI's
contractual arrangements with its private, government, and nonprofit
clients. Mr. Donoghue has more than eighteen years of accounting experience
and graduated with distinction from Mount St. Mary's University with
an MBA in Finance.
Kenneth
D. Durr, who started with History Associates in 1991, is HAI's
executive vice president and director of the History Division, with
an expertise in oral history and labor and business history. He oversees
a wide range of projects that includes books and monographs, on-line
histories and time lines, chronologies, and oral history programs. Dr. Durr
has coauthored The Roadway Story and Never Stand Still: The
History of Consolidated Freightways, Inc. and CNF Transportation Inc.,
1929-2000. He has written a history of the International Union of
Painters and Allied Trades (AFL-CIO, CLC), and his book Behind the
Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980,
was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2003. Dr.
Durr is currently writing a history of the International Basic Economy
Corporation, 1947-1980. With extensive background in economic mobilization
during and after World War II, he has also directed a number of litigation
research projects. Dr. Durr earned a bachelor's degree in American studies
at Kent State University and holds master's and doctoral degrees in
twentieth-century American political and social history from American
University. He has taught at American University and is published in
the academic journal Labor History.
James
H. Lide, who joined History Associates in 1988, is an HAI vice
president and director of the International Division, which provides
historical research and archival services for a variety of overseas
and domestic clients. He oversees research projects relating to World
War II-era claims arising from looted art, forced labor practices in
Germany, and Holocaust assets and has extensive experience working at
archives throughout Europe. He also directs historical research for
museum exhibits, including projects for the U.S. National Archives,
the International Spy Museum, and the National D-Day Museum. Most recently,
he has directed research projects relating to the Atlantic slave trade
and slavery in the United States on behalf of financial institutions
in the United States and Europe. Dr. Lide earned a bachelor's degree
from Brown University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors
degrees in history and economics. He received a master of studies in
European history from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in European history
from the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Lide was a Fulbright
scholar in Morocco, and his language skills include French, Italian,
Spanish, and Modern Standard Arabic. He has recently been listed in
Who's Who in America.
Gail
M. Mathews has been History Associates' director of Office Services
since 1984 and its chief editor since 1981 and also serves as corporate
secretary. She has edited the firm's technical reports and book-length
manuscripts, including DuPont: From the Banks of the Brandywine to
the Miracles of Science; Empowering an Industry: One Hundred
Years of the National Electrical Contractors Association; Seeking
the Greatest Good: The Public Welfare Foundation; Never Stand
Still: The History of Consolidated Freightways, Inc. and CNF Transportation
Inc., 1929-2000; The Roadway Story; The History of MCI, 1968-1988:
The Early Years; and Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal: Production
Reactor Technology, Management, and Policy, 1942-1992. She also
manages support staff workload, reviews and edits proposals and other
deliverables, and helps maintain HAI's website.
Doris
E. Miles is History Associates' director of Personnel and Facilities.
Her responsibilities include new employee orientations; personnel recruitment;
benefits coordination; ensuring compliance with federal, state, and
local laws governing employment; and serving as a human relations liaison
for employees and management. She also coordinates all aspects of managing
the HAI facility. Ms. Miles was formerly the human resources manager
at Liberty Mutual Insurance in Rockville, Maryland.
Michael C. Reis, an HAI vice president, is director of Litigation
Research and a senior historian who has managed a diverse range of projects
since he joined History Associates in 1995. These projects include multiple
investigations for determining environmental site histories and a team
effort to locate Nazi gold-related documents on behalf of the US Treasury
Department. He also has expertise in documenting corporate succession,
reconstructing legislative histories, and providing historic context
statements for preservation and cultural resources management. Mr. Reis
holds a bachelor's degree in history from Loyola College and a master's
degree in history from The George Washington University. He is coauthor,
with the late Michael T. Janik, of an article on rediscovering World
War II federal contracting rules for use in CERCLA retroactive liability
cases. He is also author of "Searching in the Past" (Legal
Times, March 10, 2003), a comprehensive article describing how historians
can assist attorneys in litigation settings, and "Wartime Mobilization
and the Newark Bay Home Front Environment: A Case Study Revealing Opportunity
for Federal Leadership in Resolving Mega Site Problems" (Environmental
Claims Journal 18, Fall 2006). In addition, Mr. Reis recently presented
"Getting Needed Information from Government Archives," a continuing
accredited legal education (CLE) course outline for the Pennsylvania
Bar Institute (PBI).
Anita
M. Weber is an HAI vice president and director of the Information
Resources Management Services Division, as well as a senior archivist,
and has been with History Associates since 1996. She serves as project
manager for several HAI projects, including a map rehousing project
where she supervises a team of three archivists who are appraising,
arranging, describing, and performing basic conservation tasks for the
Library of Congress's Geography and Maps Division; the Anacostia Museum
nomenclature project; and a series of processing projects for the National
Library of Medicine. During her tenure at HAI, Ms. Weber assisted West
Virginia University's Institute of Technology in a survey of the records
holdings in West Virginia's fifty-five county courthouses. She also
served as project manager for an Army Corps of Engineers processing
project and processed a large collection of twentieth-century business
and personal papers. Ms. Weber has more than twenty years of experience
with personal and corporate records working in repositories including
the Northern Illinois Regional History Center and the George C. Marshall
Research Foundation and as creator of the Timken Company Archives where
she processed the family papers of founders William and Henry Timken.
Prior to joining HAI Ms. Weber served as archivist at the Cleveland
Museum of Natural History where she was responsible for both the museum's
corporate records and special collections material. In addition to processing
the records, she regularly designed exhibits on various facets of the
museum's history. Ms. Weber holds a master of library science degree
from Kent State University. She also earned bachelor's and master's
degrees in history and pursued Ph.D. studies at Northern Illinois University.
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