Michael R. Adamson
Department of History
California State University
Sonoma, CA

Project:             Industrial Activity and Its Socioeconomic Impacts: Oil and Three Coastal California Counties 

Education:          B.B.A.                    Finance, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI                                     1984
                             M.B.A.                    Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ                                                     1986
                             M.S.                       History, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA                                 1996
                             Ph.D.                      History, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA                                2000
Positions:          2002-Present          Adjunct Professor, Department of History, California State University, Sonoma, CA
            2000-2002              Visiting Scholar, Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
                      1996-1998              Graduate Student Researcher, Marine Sciences Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
                      1995-1996              Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
                      1994-1997              Independent Business Analyst/ Information Technology Consultant
                      1992-1994              Software Engineer, Synon, Inc., Larkspur, CA
                      1990-1992              Business Applications Consultant, Synon, Inc., Larkspur, CA
                      1989-1990              Management Consultant, Coopers & Lybrand, San Francisco, CA
                      1986-1989              Management Consultant, Andersen Consulting, Phoenix, AZ

Selected Publications:

Adamson, M.R. 2002. Ambassadorial Roles and Foreign Policy: Elbridge Durbrow, Frederick Nolting, and the U.S. Commitment to Diem's Vietnam, 1957-61. Presidential Studies Quarterly June.

Adamson, M.R. 2002. Oil Development and the Accomplishment of Place in Santa Barbara and Ventura, California: Comment on Molotch, Freudenberg, and Paulsen. American Sociological Review 67(6): 911.

Adamson, M.R. 2002. The Failure of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council Experiment, 1934-1940. Business History Review 76:  479–514.

Adamson, M.R. 2000. Review of “The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony: Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets”, by David E. Spiro. Business History Review 74: 344-348.

Adamson, M.R. 1999. Delusions of Development: The Eisenhower Administration and the Foreign Aid Program in Vietnam, 1955-1960. Journal of American-East Asian Relations 5: 157-182.

Adamson, M.R. 1999. Review of “The Great Depression: An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies”, by Thomas E. Hall and J. David Ferguson. The Freeman 49: 57-58.

Bergstrom, R. and M.R. Adamson. 1998. Exploration and Production in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo Counties, California: Oil Well Operators, 1950-1997. Minerals Management Service, Camarillo, CA.

K. Paulsen, et al. 1998. Petroleum Extraction in Ventura County, California: An Industrial History. Minerals Management Service, Camarillo, CA.

L. Nevarez, et al. 1998. Petroleum Extraction in Santa Barbara County, California: An Industrial History. Minerals Management Service, Camarillo, CA.

T.D. Beamish, et al. 1998. Petroleum Extraction in San Luis Obispo County, California: An Industrial History. Minerals Management Service, Camarillo, CA.

 

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