Michael Adamson

Consultant

Education

• PhD in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara
• MBA from the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
• BBA in finance from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Memberships

• NCPH's Development Committee
• previously served six years on NCPH's Consultants Committee
• Business History Conference
• Urban History Association
• Associate Member of the American Bar Association

About Michael

Michael R. Adamson has more than 25 years of consulting experience in the areas of organizational history, environmental impact assessment, historic preservation, litigation support, and business information systems. He also has taught U.S. history part time at Sacramento State University and Sonoma State University. He is the author of two books, A Better Way to Build: A History of the Pankow Companies (Purdue University Press, 2013) and Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast: Ralph Bramel Lloyd and the Shaping of the Urban West (West Virginia University Press, 2018). His many essays on topics in business and urban history, natural resource development, and U.S. foreign economic policy have appeared as articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in books.