|
Vantage Point People Eric John Abrahamson, Ph.D. is Principal Historian and founder of Vantage Point. Over the last two decades he has written numerous histories of major corporations and cultural institutions in telecommunications, banking, food processing, construction, philanthropy and the arts. He is coauthor with Louis Galambos of Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Eric earned his Ph.D. in American Economic History from Johns Hopkins University in 2003. He and his wife, Lois Facer, Academic Dean at National American University, have lived in Rapid City, South Dakota, since 1998. •eric@vantagepointhistory.com Grant Alger received his Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University and is a specialist in the economic, social and political history of China. He has published and presented studies on the social history of work, the history of technological change, and the regulation of the local economy by the state in China. Based in Philadelphia, he has taught at the University of Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania. He is also interested in U.S. business history and has enjoyed contributing to various Vantage Point projects, including Persistence and Perspective: Franklin Templeton Investments The First Sixty Years. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant among other fellowships. •grant@vantagepointhistory.com Ernest Grafe is an historian and writer who most recently coauthored Exploring with Custer, a definitive account of the Black Hills Expedition of 1874. He earned degrees in History and Journalism from Syracuse University, and worked for many years as a reporter. He now combines his editorial skills with graphic and web production as well as database development. He divides his time between San Francisco and the Black Hills of South Dakota. • ernie@vantagepointhistory.com Craig Chapman, production coordinator |
|