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Rotenstein,
Ph.D.
Email: david.rotenstein@earthlink.net
Phone: (240) 461-7835
Website: http://www.historian4hire.net
Blog: http://historian4hire.wordpress.com/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dsrotenstein
Skype: dsrotenstein
Twitter: @Historian4Hire
Key Accomplishments
Provided technical services and expert testimony to clients in local, state, and federal regulatory proceedings.
Conducted 70 oral history interviews with current and former bank presidents, government officials, and development company
executives for a Washington, D.C., company history.
Interviews, photography, and production for a corporate annual report video documenting housing programs for chronically
homeless women in the District of Columbia.
Created the only public history blog included in the new TBD.com network.
Served two full terms on the Montgomery County, Maryland, Historic Preservation Commission (two years as vice-chair; final
year as chairman).
Appointed to the Montgomery County Zoning Advisory Panel as an expert in historic preservation.
Presented papers derived from research at regional and international professional conferences.
Wrote articles in diverse academic, professional, and popular publications, including
IA: The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, the National Trust for Historic Preservation Forum News,
and the 2010 Philadelphia Folk Festival Program Book (lead feature article).
Elected to the Society for Industrial Archeology Board of Directors (2010-2013 term).
Appointed H-Urban Web editor.
For more than 25 years I have been interviewing people in their offices, factories, homes, and farm fields. As a journalist I
interviewed notables you may know (B.B. King, ZZ Top, Graham Nash, and Carlos Santana) and some folks you may not know
(Ahmet Ertegun, George Britton, Tabby Thomas, Jay Ungar, and Jeff Kumer). I have interviewed a blues musician (Roy Book
Binder) between gigs at a rest area on the New Jersey Turnpike and a woodworker (Lawrence Hojo) who once made
sounding sticks for Pennsylvania coal miners and an active duty army captain nearing the end of his hitch temping as a town
crier Pittsburgh newspaper strike.
Working with clients to document their business history, I have interviewed a former D.C. mayor and the federal regulators
who tried to rein in his administration. I interviewed a prominent developer in his penthouse office from which he pointed to
landmarks across the Washington area skyline that his company had built. I have interviewed women who were single-family
heads of households took leadership roles in their apartment buildings to galvanize tenant groups to purchase the buildings
and transform them into limited equity cooperatives or condominiums. And, in 2010 I made a video for a client featuring
interviews and photography documenting supportive housing programs for chronically homeless women in Washington.
Whatever your interviewing and oral history needs may be, I can help you find the ways to meet them using digital audio,
video, and photography.