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”.
The Industrial Archaeology Summer 2015 Field School participated in excavation work at the Ransom Smelter on Isle Royale National Park. Their work was captured in the production titled Beneath the Wilderness: Revisiting Isle Royale’s Industrial Past from Ravenswood Media.
Video Summary: Seth DePasqual, Cultural Resources Manager National Park Service, partners with a team of industrial archeologists from Michigan Technological University to uncover a 19th century smelter on Isle Royale National Park. Known primarily as a wilderness area, Isle Royale was, for a short time, the center of copper mining in the United States. The National Park Service provides the student archeologists with a valuable experience in industrial archeology while gathering important information for park visitors about the island’s gritty industrial past.
Bode Morin, PhD in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology and an MS in Industrial Archaeology and Kim Barton, BS in Anthropology were featured in the fall 2015 Michigan Tech Magazine. Click here to read the full story.
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.
Chelsea Schelly’s (SS) article “Understanding Energy Practices,” has been published online in Society and Natural Resources. Read the article online.
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Graduate students in Richelle Winkler’s Sociology of the Environment course presented a report on waste and recycling in Hancock, Houghton and at Michigan Tech on Dec 9 at the Portage Lake District Library. You can download the Executive Summary or Full Report here.
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Professor Emeritus Terry S. Reynolds authored “Staying Alive: The Introduction of Slushing in Michigan’s Underground Iron Mines” in the Mining History Journal, 22 (2015), 51-78.
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LouAnn Wurst joins the Department of Social Sciences as a professor. Before coming to Michigan Tech, Wurst was at Western Michigan University. Wurst received a PhD in Anthropology from Binghamton University and a Master’s in Anthropology from State University of New York at Binghamton.
Her research interests include historical archaeology, issues of class and ideology, and heritage and cultural resource management. She has also had archaeological experience as the principal investigator at the Coalwood Archaeology Project in Hiawatha National Forest,and the Apple Island Archaeology Project in Orchard Lake, Mich.
Sarah Scarlett joins the Department of Social Sciences as an assistant professor. Prior to this position, Scarlett was a lecturer and Chipstone Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts here at Michigan Tech. Scarlett received a PhD in the Department of Art History, Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures program at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Master’s in American Material Culture from the University of Delaware.
She has been published The Journal of Modern Craft. She has also worked at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
Sean Gohman, PhD Candidate, Industrial Heritage and Archaeology, had the pleasure of working with the Quincy Mine Hoist Association this past year to publish an updated edition of Don Chaput’s The Cliff: America’s First Great Copper Mine. First published in 1971, the book had been out of print for decades, and the Hoist Assoc. took on the rights and asked Gohman to add some new material in order to make the book more than just a history book, but instead to promote Copper Country heritage (such as the site’s history from c.1900 to the present, site mapping, landscape evolution, archaeology, and environmental remediation at the site). It’s put together to be ‘2 books in 1’, with Chaput’s original material followed by Gohman’s (formatted as closely as he could to the original). Gohman feels the new edition is now more than just a local history book.
The soft-cover version just came out a few weeks ago and is available pretty much wherever books are sold locally (hard covers arriving in shops shortly). It is also available at the Quincy Mine Hoist Association website.