Dr. William M. McClenahan, Jr.
Adjunct Faculty

Ph.D., The George Washington University

Robert H. Smith School of Business
Logistics, Business and Public Policy
3432 Van Munching Hall
College Park, MD  20742-1815
301.405.1111
wmcclena@rhsmith.umd.edu
curriculum vitae

Research Interests: The history of American business, business-government relations, foreign economic policy and the legal profession in the 20^th century.

Ph.D., American History, The George Washington University
J.D., University of Louisville

Professor McClenahan is an attorney and a business historian.  He has taught both sections of business law since 1997. Between 1994 and 1997 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Transportation, Business and Public Policy at Maryland. He co-authored, with William H. Becker, The Market, the State and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1934-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and, with Joseph A. Pratt and William H. Becker, The Voice of the Marketplace, A History of the National Petroleum Council (Texas A&M University Press, 2002).  He has given expert testimony or consulted on the history of business and pubic policy for government agencies and private firms in Superfund, product liability and consumer fraud litigation.  Between 1974 and 1986 he was an attorney with the Interstate Commerce Commission (now Surface Transportation Board).  He was on the personal staff of the Chairman Reece Taylor between 1982-1986.

updated 7/05