Philip L. Cantelon

Philip L. Cantelon is History Associates' chairman of the board and chief executive officer. One of the firm's cofounders, he is an expert on oral history, foundations, business and energy history, and the history of deregulation. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including The History of Consolidated Freightways, Inc. and CNF Transportation Inc., 1929-2000; The History of MCI, 1968-1988: The Early Years; The Roadway Story; and Crisis Contained: The Department of Energy at Three Mile Island. He is the coeditor of Corporate Archives and History: Making the Past Work and The American Atom, both widely used college textbooks. His articles have appeared in Technology and Culture and American Heritage. Dr. Cantelon's client list includes General Electric, the Kendall and GAR Foundations, Consolidated Edison Company, Texas Instruments Inc., MCI Communications Corporation, the American Furniture Hall of Fame, and The Children's Inn at NIH. He is a founding member of both the National Council on Public History and the Society for History in the Federal Government, and he received the Society's Franklin D. Roosevelt Award for 2004. Dr. Cantelon also plays an active role in the affairs past and present of Montgomery County, Maryland; he has served as chairman, president, and board member of the county's historical society. For nine years he taught contemporary American history at Williams College; he also held a Fulbright Professorship of American Civilization at Kyushu National University and Seinan Gakuin University in Japan. Dr. Cantelon is a graduate of Dartmouth College, earned his MA at the University of Michigan, and received a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University. He was recently featured in the January/February 2009 issue of Humanities Magazine in an interview with the chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities.