Professor Richelle Winkler along with MTU students and Calumet area community members, Melissa Michaelson, Mayra Sanchez Gonzalez, Heather Simpson, and Lorri Oikarinen, published a paper titled “Boom, Bust and Beyond: Arts and Sustainability in Calumet, Michigan” in the academic journal, Sustainability, on March 21, 2016 about arts-based activities in Calumet, MI. The article is part of a series of articles about sustainability in the context of shrinking cities.
Adam Wellstead (SS) co-authored an article with Bryan Evans (Ryerson University, Toronto) “The Role of Non-government actors: In from the cold?” in Canadian Government Executive. Volume 22, Issue 2, pgs.8-10.
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Kari Henquinet, Chelsea Schelly, and Richelle Winkler are featured in the Research 2016 article titled Interdisciplinary Research 2.0 which highlights their involvement in interdisciplinary research at Michigan Tech. Research is published by University Marketing and Communications and the Vice President for Research Office at Michigan Technological University.
Chelsea Schelly (SS) has a chapter, titled “How policy frameworks shape environmental practice: Three cases of alternative dwelling,” in the newly published book “Putting Sustainability into Practice: Applications and Advances in Research on Sustainable Consumption” edited by Emily Huddart Kennedy, Maurie J. Cohen and Naomi T. Krogman and released by Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Professor Nancy Langston wrote an Op-Ed piece in the January 28, 2016 Yale Environment 360 online edition. The piece, Beyond the Oregon Protests: The Search for Common Ground, was written following the arrests and violence earlier this week in connection with the armed takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge.
She is the author of a history of Malheur Refuge titled “Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed.”
Since the takeover earlier this month, Langston has been interviewed by dozens of media outlets including the New York Times, Mother Jones, the Denver Post, National Public Radio, the Washington Post and the Oregonian, among many others.
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Professor Emeritus Terry S. Reynolds (SS) authored a paper titled “Muting Labor Discontent: Paternalism on the Michigan Iron Ranges,” in Upper Country: A Journal of Lake Superior Studies (v. 3, 2015, pp. 5-28). It can be accessed online.
Associate Professor Adam Wellstead (SS) co-authored a paper titled “Alberta’s Oil Sands Reclamation Policy Trajectory: The Role of Tense Layering, Policy Stretching and Policy Patching in Long-Term Policy Dynamics” in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Read the paper here.
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Maui Time, a Hawaiian newspaper, quoted Professor Carl MacLennan (SocSci) in a story about the closing of the Alexander & Baldwin Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Mill. MacLennan published a book in 2014 documenting the rise and fall of the Hawaiian sugar industry. See the story here.
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Nancy Langston, Professor of Environmental History, authored the article “In Oregon, Myth Mixes With Anger” published in the January 6, 2016 edition of The New York Times. The article focuses on the history of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
Langston’s book, “Where Land and Water Meet“, which examines the history of Malheur and wildlife refuges in the West, was quoted on the January 5, 2016 The Daily Show with Trevor Noah in the piece titled “Land Wars: Armed Standoff in Oregon”.
Melissa Baird, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, co-authored the article “Introduction: The Pilbara Crisis” and authored the article “Aboriginal Country and the New Hetirage Landscapes of the Pilbara” published December 17, 2015 in Cultural Anthropology. This article is part of the series The Pilbara Crisis: Resource Frontiers in Western Australia.