MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

1. Baird, Melissa F. (Ph.D., Oregon 2009; Assoc. Prof. Anthropology) critical heritage studies,heritage landscapes, extractive industries, ethnographic methods.
2. Blair, Carl (Ph.D., Minnesota 1992; Senior Lec. History and Archaeology) experimentalarchaeology, iron production, complex societies, international programs.
3. Carter, Angie (Ph.D., Iowa State University XXXX; Assist Prof. Environ/Energy Justice) Agrifood and extractive industries, sustainability, environmental inequality/justice, community-based and participatory research.
4. Gorman, Hugh (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon 1996; Prof Environmental History and Policy, Department (Chair) political ecology of energy, governance of technological and environmental systems.
5. Lafreniere, Don (Ph.D., Western Ontario 2014; Assoc. Prof Geography and GIS, Director Geospatial Core Facility) qualitative and quantitative GIS analyses, deindustrialization and shrinking cities, demography, mobility, historical geography, neighborhoods.
6. Langston, Nancy (Ph.D. Washington 1994; Professor of Environmental History) environmental history, toxics, watershed change, water quality, mining history.
7. MacLennan, Carol (Ph.D., UC-Berkeley 1979; Assoc. Prof. Anthropology) anthropology of industry.
8. Martin, Patrick (Ph.D., Michigan St 1984; Resrch Prof. Archaeology) historical/industrial archaeology, industrial heritage, heritage governance, archaeological science.
9. Quivik, Fredric L. (Ph.D., Pennsylvania 1998: Resrch Prof. of History) history of technology, environmental history, architectural history, industrial archaeology, organization and management,historian as expert witness.
10. Rhodes II, Mark A. (Ph.D. Kent State. 2019; Asst. Prof of Geography) Memory and Heritage,Landscape, Sense of Place, Post-industrial geography and heritage, nationalism, musicology.
11. Robins, Jonathan E. (Ph.D., Univ. Rochester 2010; Assoc. Prof. History) globalization, economic history, colonialism, commodity studies, history of food, international business organization.
12. Rouleau, Laura W. (Ph.D., Delaware 2014; Instructor) American history, private/public spaces, museum studies, material culture studies.
13. Rouleau, Mark D. (Ph.D., George Mason Univ. 2011; Assoc. Prof. Social Science) social simulation, agent-based modeling land-use modeling, survey design.
14. Scarlett, Sarah Fayen (Ph.D., Madison 2014; Assist. Prof. History) architectural history, landscape, space/place, material culture, power, museum studies, historical GIS, community-engaged scholarship.
15. Scarlett, Timothy (Ph.D., UN-Reno, 2002; Assoc. Prof. Archaeology and Anthropology) historical archaeology, industrial archaeology, archaeological science, creativity and work.
16. Shelly, Chelsea (Ph.D., Wisconsin, 2013; Assoc. Prof. of Sociology) alternative technologies and renewable energy, sustainable communities, technology and energy policy, intentional communities, environmental education.
17. Sidortsov, Roman (Ph.D. Univ. Cambridge 2016; Assist. Prof Energy Policy) governance and heritage, arctic energy geopolitics, energy and environmental policy and law, sustainability.
18. Sweitz, Samuel (Ph.D., Texas A & M 2005; Assoc. Prof.) historical and industrial archaeology, industrial communities, sugar, mining, world systems and globalization.
19. Walton, Steven A. (Ph.D., Toronto 1999; Assoc. Prof of History) history of technology, history of science, military history, history of engineering, early modern Europe, antebellum industry.
20. Winkler, Richelle (Ph.D., Wisconsin 2010; Assoc. Prof. Sociology and Demography) rural sociology, population and environment, environmental sociology, migration, community-engaged scholarship, GIS.
21. Wurst, LouAnn (Ph.D., Binghamton Univ. 1993; Prof. of Archaeology) historical and industrial archaeology, capitalism, class, labor, Marxist theory, inequality, historic preservation and cultural resources management.
22. Zhou, Shan (Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology. 2012; Assist. Prof Environmental/Energy Policy) sustainable technology adoption/diffusion, urban/local sustainability, policy process and analysis, heritage and green buildings.

1. Ahn, Yushin (Ph.D., Ohio State) surveying engineering and integrated geospatial technologies, remote sensing, mapping, sensor modeling and data fusion, LiDAR, 3D modeling.
2. Caneba, Gerard T. (Ph.D., UC Berkeley; Prof. of Chemical Engineering) supercritical chemistry and artifact conservation, controlled chain polymerization, sustainability polymer materials and systems.
3. Drelich, Jaroslaw W. (Ph.D., Utah, Professor Materials Science and Engineering) materials characterization and archaeometry, fine particle adhesion, functional materials/surfaces.
4. Henquinet, Kari A. (Ph.D. Michigan State Univ. 2007; Director, Peace Corps Master’s International Program, Pavilis Honors College) Anthropology, ethnography, gender, international development,human rights, service learning, African studies.
5. Levin, Eugene (Ph.D., State Land Organization University, Moscow) photogrammetry, integrated geospatial technologies, remote sensing and geosensorics, mobile mapping platforms, 3E geospatial visualization, augmented reality.
6. Shannon, Jeremy (Ph.D., Michigan Tech Univ; Senior Lecturer Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences) geophysics and remote sensing, structural geology, environmental geology,depositional systems.
7. Urban, Noel (Ph.D., Minnesota; Prof. Civil and Environmental Engineering) Great Lakes, integrated assessments of contaminated environments, environmental cycles of major and trace elements.

Michigan Technological University offers several degrees in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology, including unique Ph.D. and M.S. programs, as well as the VISTA/Americorps M.S. degree. Our doctoral degree is unique research-based program preparing students to join the global community of scholars engaged with the physical, cultural, and environmental heritage of industrial societies. Graduates work at managerial-level positions in heritage management and shape the development and implementation of heritage policy around the world. The M.S. degrees are truly interdisciplinary, combining the academic perspectives of anthropology, history of technology, geography, environmental history, sociology,  architectural history, anthropology, and other fields. M.S. graduates pursue careers in heritage management, field archaeology, public history, preservation and planning, archives, tourism, museums, community revitalization, and government service. Students can take advantage of the VISTA/Americorps opportunities for national service and integrate their experience into their studies. The Department of Social Sciences maintains and collaborates with many research centers on campus, including the Geospatial Core Facility, the Historical Environments Spatial Analytics Laboratory, the Great Lakes Research Center, and the  dedicated Annex Building Archaeology Laboratories (including research, conservation, and teaching labs; GIS lab; a curatorial facility; and the Industrial Heritage and Archaeology library), in addition to remote sensing, chemistry and materials science, aDNA, and environmental science laboratories on campus. The university’s main library, in addition to  its extensive holdings related to industrial history, maintains the Copper Country Archives and Historical Collections, an important repository of original materials concerning regional and mining history. The Archaeology Laboratory is actively involved in local, regional, and international archaeological studies, providing thesis and dissertation projects for students built around practical problems. Students also work in heritage projects, including ethnographic and public history, which are beyond narrow definitions of archaeological work. Many faculty frame their work in community-based, collaborative efforts. In recent years, all graduate students received financial support, including both the M.S. and Ph.D. level  students.

Active research programs include archaeological, ethnographic, geospatial, and historical/archival studies in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Chicago, areas of North and South America, Africa, Europe, Australia, and the Arctic. Research is sponsored by organizations like the National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the  Humanities and through partnerships with the National Park Service, National Forest Service, and other state, federal, and municipal organizations and agencies. Applications are due January 15 of each year.

For More Information Contact:

Chelsea Shelly, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931-1295 USA; phone: 906-487-2113; email: cshelly@mtu.edu; Web page: https://www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/graduate/programs/.