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The people of Historical Research Associates, Inc.
| HRA
President,
History Division Manager
Vice President,
CRM Division Manager
Chief Operating Officer,
Support Services Division Manager
| Senior Staff
Senior Consulting Historian
Senior Associate Archaeologist
Senior Associate Historian
Associate Historian
Associate Archaeologist
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Ahlman, Todd - Associate Archaeologist Dr. Ahlman began working with HRA in 2005 and has worked on cultural resource management projects and federal agency archaeology in Washington and Montana, and the Midwestern and Southeastern United States for more than 15 years.
His experience includes historic and prehistoric archaeological survey, evaluation, and data recovery; laboratory analyses of prehistoric and historical artifacts; as well as preparation of professional reports and project supervision. In addition, Dr. Ahlman is an experienced cartographer proficient in the implementation of GPS and GIS for archaeological and historical projects.
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Bowden, Bradley - Associate Archaeologist Mr. Bowden has an M.A. in Anthropology and more than 13 years' experience directing all phases of archaeological research for Section 106, Section 110, and NEPA compliance. His experience includes field investigation and laboratory analysis of prehistoric and historic archaeological resources in the Pacific Northwest and the Mid-Atlantic states. His specialties include lithic analysis, ceramic analysis, and electronic mapping.
Mr. Bowden has prepared more than 75 technical reports that present the results of survey, testing, excavation, and analysis of both prehistoric and historic resources, and has written several National Register nominations. He has served as project manager and chief cultural resources consultant over several NEPA projects, and has drafted Programmatic Agreements and Memoranda of Agreement. Mr. Bowden’s specific area of interest is the prehistory of Western Oregon.
His Master’s degree research re-examined settlement patterning along the Willamette River during the Late Archaic Period by utilizing ethnohistory, geomorphology, and root crop intensification theory.
Mr. Bowden has presented the results of his research at numerous national and regional archaeological conferences, and has published results of his research in the Association of Oregon Archaeologists Occasional Papers.
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Gallacher, Daniel - Senior Associate Historian Mr. Gallacher has an M.A. in History and joined HRA in 1980. Since the mid-1980s Gallacher has been a Project Manager, Principal Investigator, and HRA Company Principal. He has been a Faculty Affiliate for the Department of History, University of Montana, since 1983. He has worked on, or directed, projects in Montana, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Vermont, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Washington, Oregon and Alaska.
Mr. Gallacher has been responsible for researching the history of ownership and operational activity at numerous hazardous waste sites throughout the western United States. He has completed corporate profiles of major parties involved in toxic sites using a variety of sources including SEC filings, Articles of Incorporation, Annual Reports, and local land title records.
He has also directed teams of HRA historians in reviewing federal, state, and local records for projects relating to the history of natural resource utilization and toxic waste deposition.
Mr. Gallacher works closely with clients to determine their needs and then directs the project team in conducting research and preparing reports that will be used in litigation. In addition, he has been identified as an expert witness for many of the projects that he has managed.
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Godfrey, Matthew - President,
History Division Manager Dr. Matthew Godfrey has a Ph.D. in American and Public History. Dr. Godfrey began working for HRA in January 2002 with formal training in oral history and archives management, and a strong interest in the history of agribusiness and the American West. He has 11 years' experience in historical research and writing and is the author of Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921 (Utah State University Press, 2007), which won the Mormon History Association's Smith-Pettit Best First Book Award for 2007.
At HRA, he has conducted historical-legal studies on issues concerning federal reclamation and water rights, navigability of waterways, natural resource management on Indian reservations, ratification of Indian treaties, and environmental cleanup. In addition, he has worked on administrative histories for federal agencies such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Forest Service, and the National Park Service, including conducting numerous oral histories for these projects. Dr. Godfrey has also been called on as an Expert Witness. [back to top]
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Greenwald, Emily - Associate Historian Dr. Greenwald has a Ph.D. in History and joined HRA in June 2002, after seven years on the faculty of the University of Nebraska. She is the author of Reconfiguring the Reservation: The Nez Perces, Jicarilla Apaches, and the Dawes Act (New Mexico, 2002).
Her academic research has focused on federal Indian policy and tourism in America's national parks. At HRA, Dr. Greenwald is researching and writing historical-legal studies, emphasizing Western and Midwestern Indian history. Dr. Greenwald has also been called on as an Expert Witness on multiple occasions.
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Greiser, Weber - Associate Archaeologist Mr. Greiser has an M.A. in Anthropology and has been with HRA since 1980 He has 24 years' experience as Project Manager and/or Principal Investigator and 31 years' field experience on cultural resource projects in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Washington, Alaska, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas.
His experience includes prehistoric and historic archeological predictive modeling; survey, testing, and excavations; and laboratory analysis of artifacts and faunal remains. Mr. Greiser has conducted American Indian Religious Freedom Act compliance and other studies of various Native groups, including Salish, Kootenai, and Blackfeet in Montana; the Nez Perce in Idaho; Athabaskan, Eskimo, and Tlingit groups in Alaska; and Pueblos and Navajos in New Mexico and Arizona. These studies have included documentation of Traditional Cultural Properties using National Register Bulletin 38 guidelines.
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Hicks, Brent - Vice President,
CRM Division Manager Mr. Hicks' education includes an M.A. in Anthropology, 1991; B.A. in Recreation and Parks Administration, 1987; and a B.A. in Anthropology, 1986. He has more than 18 years' experience in cultural resource management and has conducted and managed archaeological investigations in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and California. Mr. Hicks is skilled in all aspects of research and fieldwork in both historic and prehistoric archaeology, and has a strong background in lithic artifact analysis. He has worked on numerous archaeological projects associated with transportation corridors.
Mr. Hicks also has considerable experience working with Native American Tribes, which includes consultation on all types of cultural resource management projects and topics. He managed a tribal cultural resource management compliance program for off-reservation federal lands.
Mr. Hicks has managed numerous CRM projects on federal, state, and private lands, including inventories, evaluations, and site mitigation (e.g., protection and data recovery); burial site protection; and archaeological collections assessments and rehabilitation for curation purposes. He has prepared management documents, including Historic Property Management Plans, Memoranda of Agreements, and Programmatic Agreements.
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Homstad-Lakes, Carla - Associate Historian Ms. Homstad-Lakes has an M.A. in History and has been with HRA since 1993. She has focused primarily on research and writing for historical-legal studies, as well as analyses of historical land and water use, throughout the West and Midwest. She also has experience in the research, writing and editing of administrative histories and of cultural landscape reports.
Her work has had an emphasis on social and cultural history, Western United States history, and Montana history. This work has often incorporated compiling and analyzing legislative histories and has frequently addressed issues pertaining to federal-Indian relations and tribal rights. Additionally, Ms. Homstad’s work has included Potentially Responsible Party (PRP) searches that have involved corporate, site, and ownership history. Ms. Homstad has been called as an Expert Witness on multiple occasions.
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Lakes, Gregory - Chief Operating Officer,
Support Services Division Manager Mr. Lakes joined HRA in April 2005 and is responsible for contracting, human resources, and all aspects of financial management for both HRA and its affiliate, HRA Gray & Pape. He has an M.B.A. from the University of Montana, as well as degrees in wildlife biology and journalism, and a background in Web design, Web programming, and networking. He has taught undergraduate courses in the University's business and journalism schools.
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Miller, Heather - Associate Historian Dr. Miller joined HRA in 2005 with expertise in United States history, women's and social history, the Pacific Northwest, U.S. West, and Latin American history, in addition to cultural resources management, Section 106/110 compliance, historical architecture, and HABS/HAER.
She has strong research, writing, and editorial skills, having not only trained formally as a social and cultural historian, but also having worked for eight years in scholarly journal and book editing.
At HRA, Dr. Miller has conducted research for litigation support projects, performed archival and government documents research, conducted cultural/historical field surveys, written HABS/HAER documentation, prepared narrative histories and historical context statements, conducted oral history interviews, prepared historical property management plans, and contributed to a book-length administrative history of Point Reyes National Seashore in California.
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Newell, Alan - Senior Consulting Historian Mr. Newell is founder and Senior Consulting Historian of HRA and has nearly 30 years' experience as a Project Manager and/or Principal Investigator on studies in Montana, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, California, Nevada, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Arizona, Minnesota, Michigan, and Washington, D.C. He has conducted studies of historical-legal questions in water and land use, federal-state-tribal relations, legislative history, and navigability. Mr. Newell has been qualified and has testified as a historian on land, water, and Native American issues in federal courts in Montana, Washington, New Mexico, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. He has also had workshop, lecture, and teaching experience at the University of Montana and Arizona State University, at the U.S. Forest Service Region I, and at professional meetings.
In 2008, Alan Newell received the Robert Kelley Memorial Award for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of public history. Read more about this award.[back to top]
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Thompson, Gail - Senior Associate Archaeologist Dr. Gail Thompson, Ph.D. in Anthropology, is a Senior Archaeologist with more than 20 years' experience in cultural resources planning and other work throughout the western states and Alaska.
Her Ph.D. dissertation, published by the University of Washington, involved a study of changing prehistoric Indian land use in a portion of the southern Northwest Coast. Dr. Thompson's work has included studies in archaeology, history, and Indian tribal concerns for numerous projects in energy, natural resources, industrial, hazardous waste, transportation, military, commercial, and other developments.
She has served as an expert witness in archaeology and Indian tribal concerns in federal and state courts. Dr. Thompson also teaches a course in cultural resource management at the University of Washington and is a member of the Society for American Archaeology.
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