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Brian W. MartinBrian 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. CareyGabriele 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 DonoghueDonald 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. DurrKenneth 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. LideJames 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. MathewsGail 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 MilesDoris 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 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. WeberAnita 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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