Kristin Teigen

Professional Credentials

Master of Education, Portland State University, 2008
• Specialty in Educational Methods and Curriculum for Diverse Populations in an Elementary and Post-Secondary Environment
• Final Research Project: Becoming a Multicultural Educator

Master of Arts, History, Portland State University, 2008
• Specialties in United States Constitutional and American Cultural History
• Thesis: Locus of Control: The County Supremacy Movement and a Resilient Rebellion

Personal Statement:

As a professional consultant, instructor and social justice activist, I have a broad array of skills and a tremendous enthusiasm for all aspects of historical work. My areas of expertise include:

• Research and writing
• Fundraising, including grant writing
• Event planning

Areas of Specialization:

• Local and State History • Constitutional History • African American History

•Women’s History • Gay and Lesbian History • Native American History  

• History of the Far Right   • Multicultural Educational Methods

• Post-Secondary Educational Environments

Selected Positions:

In addition to the positions listed below, I have more than 20 years of experience as a fundraising professional. I’ve worked for large, national organizations and local groups, serving them through direct mail, online, event and grant writing development work.

• Instructor, Portland State University, University Studies Department. Responsible for teaching a 6-credit Capstone course focusing on voting rights, people of color history in Oregon, political activism and fundraising. Fall 2012 to present
• Editorial assistant, Portland State University, Department of History. Responsible for writing entries, editing and fact-checking for the Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law (2008). Responsible for researching topics related to criminal justice. 2006-2009
• Research assistant, Portland State University, Department of History. Assisted with graduate level classes and conducted research, including on Native American, local people of color communities, and Constitutional history. 2005 – 2006
• Rose Tucker Fellow, Oregon Historical Society. Researched issues in public and local history and supported the Society’s affiliate program. 2003 – 2004

Awards and Honors:

• Oregon Sports Lottery Foundation Scholarship, 2005-06
• Nominee, Best Graduate Paper, 2005
• James Madison Fellow for the Study of the Constitution, 2004 (declined for family reasons)
• Laurel’s Scholarship for Academic Merit, 2003-2006
• Perfect score on analytical/writing section of the GRE
• President’s and Dean’s List for Academic Achievement 
• Anne P. Meyers History Award
• Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society

Contact: kmteig@comcast.net  (971) 998-7237
Excellent references available

Thomas Robinson

Professional credentials:

GED

Personal statement: 

I'm a photo-historian, project manager, editor and writer working independently for museums, publishers and government agencies.

Areas of specialization:

Photo reproduction for maximum quality, including drum scanning and color correction. Photo editing for publication, including searching and research, acquisition, metadata and digital image management.

Professional Associations:

Northwest History Network

Oregon Historical Society

Selected publications:

Oregon Then & Now (author)

Oregon Photographers 1852-1917 (author)

Portland Confidential (photo editor)

Oregon My Oregon (photo editor)

Wild Beauty (assistant photo editor)

Handbook of Western Photographers (section editor)

Products & Services:

Subject and location photo research

Drum scanning & copy work

Archival darkroom printing

Digitization management consulting

In-house photo archive

Recent clients:

CBS television

City of Portland

Field & Stream

National Park Service

Portland State University

McCormick & Schmick's

McMenamins

Oregon Historical Society

Ralph Lauren, Madison Ave.

University of Oregon

Warner Brothers

Contact information

503-460-0415 (9am - 5pm Pacific time)

8250 N. Lombard, Portland OR 97203 USA

web: historicphotoarchive.net and .com

email: negativephoto@yahoo.com

Harry H. Stein

Professional Credentials:

B.A.      Antioch College in Government, 1959

M.A.     University of Minnesota in History, 1962

Ph.D.    University of Minnesota in History, 1965

Personal Statement:

Since 1979, I have been an independent scholar and historical consultant (mainly for law, engineering and business firms, including work as an expert witness). Before then, I was a college professor. I have written two corporate histories and other works. I am writing the history of The Oregonian. I have served as an officer or on boards and committees of various scholarly and other organizations, engaged in public speaking, and received a variety of grants and awards.

Areas of Specialization:

biography / business history / environmental history / historical research / historical writing / labor history /media history / Oregon / Pacific Northwest / photography / Portland / urban history

Professional Associations:

American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Oregon Historical Society, Northwest Independent Scholars Association (founding President)

Selected Projects and Publications:

• Gus J. Solomon: Liberal Politics, Jews, and the Federal Courts (Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 2006)
• Old Growth, New Directions: 150 Years of Pope & Talbot (Seattle: Documentary Books, 2003)
• Pope Resources: Rooted in the Past, Growing For the Future (Seattle: Documentary Books, 2003)
• With E. Kimbark MacColl, Merchants, Money and Power: The Portland Establishment, 1843-1913 (Portland: Georgian Press, 1988)
• Single In Portland: Living Fully On Your Own (Portland: Historical-Media Services, 1983)
• Salem: A Pictorial History of Oregon's Capital (Norfolk:  Donning Co., 1981); enlarged and expanded (1998)
• With Kathleen Ryan and Mark Beach, Portland: A Pictorial History (Virginia Beach: Donning Co., 1980)
• Co-edited with John M. Harrison, Muckraking: Past, Present and Future (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1973)
• “The Oregonian,” “Henry L. Pittock” and “Gus J. Solomon” in The Oregon Encyclopedia http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org
• “Law, Legal Practice and Lamar Tooze, Jr.,” Western Legal History (accepted for publication)
• “Fighting for Aluminum and for Itself: The Bonneville Power Administration, 1939-1949,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 99 (Winter 2007/2008), 3-15
• "Attorney Gus J. Solomon and DeJonge v. Oregon: Supporting Counsel and Landmark Constitutional Decisions,” Western Legal History 16 (Summer/Fall 2003), 119-134
• "Apprenticing Reporters: Lincoln Steffens on The Evening Post," Historian 58 (Winter 1996), 367-382
• "Building Cases with History," Oregon State Bar Bulletin 54 (April 1994), 18-19
• "The Historian in the Law Office," National Paralegal Reporter 17 (Spring 1993), 34-35
• "American Muckraking of Technology Since 1900," Journalism Quarterly 67 (Summer 1991), 401-409
• With E. Kimbark MacColl, "Lifestyles of Portland's Early Rich and Famous," Portland Magazine 2 (Winter 1988-1989), 20-21, 38-40
• With E. Kimbark MacColl, "The Economic Power of Portland's   Early Merchants, 1851-1861," Oregon Historical Quarterly 89 (Summer 1988), 117-156
• "Historical Resources in the Pacific Northwest" in The Northwest Information Directory: A Guide to Unusual Sources and Special Collections, ed. Steve Johnson (Portland: Center for Urban Education, 1986)
• With David Duniway, Spinning and Weaving Wool--The Men and Women of the Mill (Salem: Mission Mill Village, 1985)
• With Kathleen Ryan and Mark Beach, Portland--A Pictorial Calendar, 1983 (Norfolk:  Donning Co., 1982)
• "State Fair," Oregon Magazine 11 (August 1981), 39-42
• "American Muckrakers and Muckraking: The 50-Year Scholarship," Journalism Quarterly 56 (Spring 1979), 9-17
• "The Muckraking Book in America, 1946-1973," Journalism Quarterly 52 (Summer 1975), 297-303
• "Lincoln Steffens and the Mexican Revolution," American Journal of Economics and Sociology 34 (April 1975), 197-212
• With John M. Harrison, "Muckraking Journalism in Twentieth-Century America," in Muckraking: Past, Present and Future, eds. John M. Harrison and Harry H. Stein (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1973)
• With John M. Harrison, "Muckraking: Present and Future," in Muckraking: Past, Present and Future, eds. John M. Harrison and Harry H. Stein (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1973)
• "Theodore Roosevelt and the Press: Lincoln Steffens," Mid-America 54 (April 1972), 94-107
• Lincoln Steffens: Interviewer," Journalism Quarterly 46 (Winter 1969), 727-736

Contact Information:

2826 N.E. Brazee Court

Portland, OR 97212

503-281-2275

steinharry14@gmail.com

Heather Oriana Petrocelli

Professional Credentials:

MA, History (in progress)

BA, History, 2010

BA, Cinema Studies, 2001

Personal Statement:

My studies and research focus on community oral histories, the relationship between film and history, public memory, community organizations, and making history accessible to the general public. 

For nearly two years I have been conducting research and interviews about Portland's Center for the Moving Image (CMI), Andries Deinum, Tom Taylor, and the greater Portland film community. My Master's thesis is a cultural and community history about CMI as a foundational media arts center and about Portland's film community from 1957-1985 based on secondary and primary resources, including interviews with CMI students and/or instructors.

Areas of Specialization:

Public History / Film Studies / Film + History / Oral History / Memory Studies / Public Memory / Historical Research / Historical Writing / Archival Outreach / Videography / Online Exhibition / Education / Audience Development / Museology / Grant Development / Pacific Northwest / Photography / Portland / Project Management / Public Programs / Marketing / Budgeting / Quantitative Analysis

Professional Associations:

PSU Film Committee at 5th Avenue Cinema; Public History Graduates (PHiG); Dill Pickle Film Series Committee; National Council on Public History; Northwest Oral History Association; Phi Alpha Theta

2010-2012 Rose Tucker Fellow at Oregon Historical Society's Quarterly

Selected Projects and Publications:
www.filmstory.org

Contact Information:

heather@mnemonicproductions.com

www.filmstory.org

James Strassmaier

Professional Credentials:

• Ph.D. in history, Loyola University, Chicago
• Oral Historian, Oregon Historical Society, 1986-2001
• Chair, Oregon Labor Oral History Project, 2008-present

Personal Statement:

• I subscribe to the Oral History Association’s “Principles and Best Practices.” My emphasis in helping guide an oral history is on the complete life story.

Areas of Specialization:

• Oral History

Professional Associations:

• Oral History Association
• Northwest Oral History Association
• Pacific Northwest Labor History Association (President 1991-1993; Newsletter editor 1989-1991)
• Oregon Labor Oral History Project

Selected Projects & Publications:

• “Production in Oral History–Second Thoughts,” NOHA Newsletter (Fall 1997).
• “The Place of Biography in Oral History,” NOHA Newsletter (Fall 1998, Spring 1999).

Contact Information:
503-236-1094
strassj@spiritone.com

James V. Hillegas

Mr. Hillegas, who enjoys history as well as his coffee.

Professional Credentials:

• MA, History, Portland State University
• BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University

Personal Statement:

• Historian of the 20th century urban environment in North America, including pollution abatement, the built environment, sustainability, and oral history.

Areas of Specialization:

• Education; Historical Research; Historical Writing; Oral History

Professional Associations:

• American Society for Environmental History
• Urban History Association
• Organization of American Historians
• Northwest History Network
• Oregon Historical Society

Selected Projects & Publications:

• Working for the “Working River”: Willamette River Pollution, 1926-1975 [working title]. Book in progress, Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR.
• “Working for the ‘Working River’: Willamette River Pollution, 1926-1962.” MA Thesis, Portland State University, 2009.
• “With the Determination of the Machine Age: Interstate 5 is Built through Bellingham, Washington, 1945-1966,” The Journal of the Whatcom County Historical Society, Centennial Edition (2004), 105-138.
• Oregon Encyclopedia entries:
"Izaak Walton League in Oregon"
"Geocaching"
"U.S.S. Sederstrom (DE-31)"
"U.S.S. Astoria (CA-34)"
"U.S.S. Oregon City (CA-122)"
"U.S.S. Coos Bay (AVP-25) / U.S.C.G.C. Coos Bay (WHEC-376)"
"Mt. Angel Oktoberfest"

Contact Information:

• 971-506-5998
•  ~jvhillegas AT g mail dot com
• http://wwwhistoricalthreads.blogspot.com/
• http://sustainabilityhistory.org/

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Heather Mayer

Professional Credentials

• Ph.D. Candidate, History, Simon Fraser University

• M.A., History, University of California, Riverside

• BA, History, Portland State University

Personal Statement

• I am an educator and an academic historian with an interest in making historical research interesting and accessible.

Areas of Specialization:

• Pacific Northwest history; Portland History; 20th Century US History; Gender History; Labor History; History of Radicalism

Professional Associations

• American Historical Association

• Pacific Northwest Labor History Association

• Labor and Working-Class History Association

Dissertation (in progress)

• “Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in Oregon and Washington, 1905-1924.”

Contact Information:

• hmayer99@gmail.com

• 971-678-5150

• http://www.heathermayer.com

Val C. Ballestrem

Professional Credentials:

• MA, History (Western U.S./Public History), Portland State University

• BA, History, Portland State University

Personal Statement:

• I am a historian with broad knowledge of Portland, Oregon and Pacific Northwest History. My goal is to help others better understand our region today through well-researched and documented stories of our past.

Areas of Specialization:

• Portland, Oregon area history, including neighborhoods, roadways and transportation, urban renewal, architecture, and historic preservation; exhibit research and writing; walking tours; public presentations; archive and library collections management.

Professional Associations:

• American Association for State and Local History

• Northwest History Network

• National Council on Public History

• National Trust for Historic Preservation

• Organization of American Historians

• Oregon Historical Society

Selected Positions and Publications:

Employers have included: Architectural Heritage Center; The Oregon Encyclopedia; Oregon Historical Society; Ft. Vancouver National Historic Site; Oregon Military Museum.

A Brief History of the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood, http://handpdx.org/blog/history/

(2011)

Entries in The Oregon Encyclopedia:

• Justus Krumbein

• Barber Block

• Mt. Hood Freeway

Contact Information:

• porltandhistory@gmail.com

• www.portlandhistorian.com

• 503.807.6978

Follow @pdxhistorian on Twitter

Morgen Young

Professional Credentials

• M.A., Public History and Historic Preservation, University of South Carolina
• B.A., History and Latin American Studies, Furman University

Personal Statement

• I am a consulting historian who works with individuals and organizations alike to document, preserve, and interpret public history.

Areas of Specialization:

• Pacific Northwest history; architectural history; historic preservation; oral history; documentary photography; 20^th Century Alaska Native/American Indian history; sports history; community history; company history; workshops; museum exhibits; walking tours

Professional Associations

• National Council on Public History
• Architectural Heritage Center
• Historic Preservation League of Oregon
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• Northwest Oral History Association

Selected Positions, Projects, and Publications

• Owner of Alder, LLC, since 2009. Clients have included Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon Historical Society, The Salvation Army Cascade Division, Chenega Future, Inc., Architectural Heritage Center
• “The Red Shield in the Rose City: 125 Years of the Salvation Army in Portland,” Oregon History Museum, September 15 – December 31, 2011 Portland, Oregon.
• Brick House Beautiful, Portland, Oregon. Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. July 2011. Author.
• “The History of Diversity in the Health Sciences,” Oregon Health & Science University, permanent exhibit, opened June 2011.
• “Soccer City USA: The Portland Timbers and the NASL Years, 1975-1982,” Oregon History Museum, April 15 – September 4, 2011, Portland, Oregon.
• We are the Land, We are the Sea: Stories of Subsistence from Chenega. Chenega Heritage Inc, 2007.

Contact Information:

• morgen@alder-llc.com
• 503.333.4914
• http://www.alder-llc.com/