Please pass the information below to students and professionals interested in graduate study! 
On a personal note, I have funded positions and am applying for funding for projects that consider the following:

1. Heritage, geospatial science, and post-industrial communities, growing from my work at Pullman National Monument in Chicago, IL. 

2. Mining Heritage as an asset for utility-scale smart grid green energy storage.

3. Public archaeology, legacies of race, and industrial communities in the Keweenaw Communities Heritage Survey. 

4. Mining and longue durée landscape history, Industrienatur and the Anthropocene.

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MS and PhD Graduate Assistantships Available

Industrial Heritage and Archaeology

Department of Social Sciences

Michigan Technological University

 

The Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University is now accepting applications for its MS and PhD programs in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology (IHA).  The IHA program examines the processes of industrialization, deindustrialization, and revitalization in communities through critical inquiry of material culture, the built environment, ethnography, heritage practice and other ways of knowing.   

 

Teaching and research assistantships are available that provide two years of funding for MS students and a minimum of three years of funding for PhD students. The assistantships include a stipend and tuition.


The MA and PhD programs involve courses and a thesis advised by an interdisciplinary faculty with perspectives from history, archaeology, anthropology, geography, heritage studies, political science, and sociology. Students from many different backgrounds are welcomed into our community, united by our interest in industrial and post-industrial communities.

 

Faculty research engages questions that investigate capitalism, labor, commodities, globalization, critical heritage, industrial & post-industrial communities, participatory GIS and public history, heritage and environmental policy, and the relationship between built and natural environments.

 

Students and faculty regularly work on projects with the National Park Service, National Forest Service, international heritage organizations, museums, and communities interested in heritage, history, environmental policy, and economic development.  Our graduates pursue careers in cultural resources management, museums, state historic preservation offices, the US park and forest service, and universities.

 

Faculty are now recruiting graduate students for funded positions within several projects, including:

 

·       Keweenaw Time Traveler, a public-participatory historical GIS project (www.keweenawhistory.com <http://www.keweenawhistory.com/>), led by Dr. Don Lafreniere and Dr. Sarah Scarlett

·       Industrial Heritage Study at Pullman National Monument, led by Dr. Tim Scarlett

·       International Migration of French-Canadians, a historical demography project,                       led by Dr. Don Lafreniere

·       Adaptive Reuse, Economic Revitalization, and Cultural Renewal: repurposing decommissioned mines into underground pumped storage facilities

led by Dr. Roman Sidortsov

·       Finger Lakes Farmstead Archaeology Project, led by Dr. LouAnn Wurst (exploring capitalist transformations in agriculture)

·       Coalwood Archaeology Project, led by Dr. LouAnn Wurst (focusing on labor in Cleveland Cliffs Iron Mine lumber camps)

·       Worker’s Experience in the Northern Forest, led by Dr. LouAnn Wurst (emphasizing social relations of industrial production and worker mobility)

·       Archaeological Perspectives on the Nordic Diaspora, led by Dr. LouAnn Wurst (industrial labor in Finland and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula)

·       Keweenaw Communities Heritage Survey, led by Dr. Sam Sweitz and Dr. Timothy Scarlett (community-based archaeological, architectural, oral-historical, and archival study of the Copper Country’s underrepresented communities).

 

Other department foci include:

 

History of Industrial Communities

Brownfield Reviltalization and Heritage Management

Environmental History

Critical Heritage Studies

History of Technology and/or Industrial Production

Heritage, Landscapes, and Water/Energy Systems

 

Application Procedure

 

Application deadline is January 15, 2019 for admission in Fall 2019.   Those seeking funding should apply by this time in order to be considered for support. We encourage PhD applicants to identify and contact a potential advisor or sponsor in the department before submitting their application.

 

Social Sciences is a strong interdisciplinary department that supports two graduate programs.  IHA students learn in courses that draw from archaeology, anthropology, history, and geography. We also offer a graduate program in Environment and Energy Policy (EEP) from which students may pull course material, methodologies, and faculty expertise to work on projects that integrate heritage with environmental and energy policy. 

 

In addition, Michigan Tech cooperates with AmeriCorps Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA) program, providing opportunities for VISTA volunteers to study for Master’s degrees that drawing upon their service year experience in post-industrial communities.  See the website for details: http://www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/graduate/osm-vista/. <http://www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/graduate/osm-vista/>
 

You can find information about our faculty, courses, degree requirements, and guidelines for preparing your application on our program webpage:  http://www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/graduate/programs/ <http://www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/graduate/programs/>
 

For specific questions about projects and research assistantships, please contact the lead faculty member.  For general inquiries about our graduate program or admissions contact:

 

Dr. Chelsea Schelly

Graduate Director

Social Sciences Department

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