David Hostetter, Director of Programs and Research
David is a co-editor of Congress Investigates: A Critical and Documentary History, recently
published by Facts On File, to which he contributed the essay on "The Iran-Contra Affair." He
is the author of the book Movement Matters: American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of
Multicultural Politics as well as the chapter "Experiment in Persuasion: The Vigil Against
Biological Warfare at Fort Detrick, 1959-1961 and Antiwar Protest in the 1960s," which appears
in the book Mid-Maryland History: Conflict, Growth and Change. He earned his Ph.D. in
History from the University of Maryland College Park and has held teaching positions at the
College of Southern Maryland and Goshen College. In the fall of 2010 David participated in a
Historical Studies Delegation to South Africa sponsored by the Organization of American
Historians and People to People International. He serves as treasurer of the Peace History Society and teaches U.S., African, and World history as an adjunct faculty member at Shepherd University.
