Travel Grants

• Post-extractive Futures: Re-Imagining Copper Mining Country in the Mid-Twentieth Century
  Camden Burd, Assistant Professor of History, Eastern Illinois University
• The Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the Copper Country
  Brian Forist, Lecturer & Program Coordinator-Parks, Recreation, & the Outdoors, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington

• The Hats of Calumet and Women in Front: Creative Writing About Women of the Copper Country
  Katherine Belliel

• Banking on Copper: An Analysis of National Bank Financial Health and Copper Production within Michigan’s Native Copper Mining District.
  Wesley Thompson, Accountant and History Writer

• Circling Lake Superior: Rephotography to Document Changing Landscapes of the Lake Superior Circle Tour.
  Dr. Matthew Liesch, Associate Professor at Central Michigan University’s Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

• Red Sports on Lake Superior: The Labor Sport Union in the Upper Peninsula, Northern Wisconsin, and Minnesota, 1928-1935
  Gabe Logan, Associate Professor, Northern Michigan University
• The Strength of Steel: Life, Labor, and Politics at the Rouge, 1941-1991
  Gordon Andrews, Associate Professor, Grand Valley State University

• Campus Traditions and Collective Meaning-Making: Exploring Student Life and Memory Building from Michigan Tech and Beyond
  David Brown, Doctoral Candidate, University of Kentucky
• Research Recap on the Pewabic
  Phillip Hartmeyer, Maritime Archaeologist
• People's Parks: Tracing Radical Environmental Activism from Berkeley to Michigan
  Kera Lovell, Doctoral Candidate, Purdue University

• Environmentalism at the Point of Extraction: Viewpoints, Politics, and Memory in Michigan's Upper Peninsula During the Environmental Movement
  Camden Burd, doctoral candidate, University of Rochester
• Passengers, Packages and Copper: The Steamer Pewabic, its Archaeology, Management, Material Culture and the Development of the Keweenaw Peninsula
  Phillip Hartmeyer, Maritime Archaeologist
• Female Spaces, Working Class Communities and the Labor Movement
  Shannon Kirkwood, doctoral candidate, Central Michigan University
• Teofilo Petriella: Marxist Revolutionary
  Paul Lubotina, Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University
• Copper, Cords and Cabbage: The Story of the Mineral Range Railroad's South Range Branch
  Mark Worrall, independent researcher

• Austro-Hungarian Immigrant Identity
  Robert Goodrich, Associate Professor
• The "Almost Ghost Town" of Winona
  Michael Luokinen, Professor
• Early Federal Mining Policy in Michigan's Copper Mining District
  Patrick Pospisek, Ph.D.

• Class Struggle in the Copper Country: The Long View
  Aaron Goings, Assistant Professor
• U.S. Navy ELF Transmitter
  Louis Slesin, Editor and Author

• Tuberculosis in the North Woods
  Jennifer Gunn, Associate Professor
• Life of Pioneer Resident Lucena Brockway
  Kathleen Warnes, Independent Scholar
• The Black Campus Movement and the Racial Reformation of Higher Education
  Ibrahim H. Rogers, Post-Doctoral Fellow

• Matching the Care to the Place: Medical Provision in Mining Regions, 1900-1950
  Jennifer Gunn, Associate Professor
• Economic Development in Lake Superior Iron Mining Towns
  Jeff Manuel, Associate Professor
• Change of Plans: Blueprint Technology and the Evolution of Engineering Practice
  Eric Nystrom, Assistant Professor
• U.P. Architect D. Frederick Charlton
  Steven Brisson, Chief Curator for Mackinac State Historic Parks

• Differently Similar: Comparing the Keweenaw and Nickel Belts
  Peter V. Krats, Assistant Professor
• The Snowshoe Priest Revisited: A Reappraisal of Frederic Baraga
  James E. Seelye, doctoral candidate, University of Toledo

• The Peasant and the Palace: Manor Records in Poland
  Cecile Jensen, director, Michigan Polonia
• Early Polish Immigrants in Houghton County
  Joseph F. Martin, FSC, Lewis University
• 'Bric-brackers and pot-hunters': Amateur Archaeologists in Nineteenth Century Ontario
  Michelle Hamilton, postdoctoral candidate University of Guelph

• Immigration and Integration on the Minnesota Iron Range
  Paul Lubotina, Adjunct Professor, Northern Michigan University
• History with an attitude, eh?
  Kathryn Remlinger, Associate Professor, Grand Valley State University
• Isolationist or International: The Copper Country's Role in Changing American Perceptions of Europe
  Peter Simons, doctoral candidate, University of Chicago

• 19th century representations of landscape and place on the Gogebic Iron Range
  Matthew Liesch, master’s candidate, UW-Madison
• Maps, photographs, and three-dimensional models: the visual culture of American mining
  Eric Nystrom, doctoral candidate, Johns Hopkins University
• Company paternalism and economic competition on organized labor activity on the Marquette Iron Range and the Keweenaw’s Copper Country
  Marcus Robyns, Archivist, Northern Michigan University

• Research into the connections between Michigan and Arizona Copper Mining Companies
  Katherine Benton-Cohen, PhD, UW-Madison
• Ethnic makeup of underground miners
  Stephen LeDuc, MS, Pennsylvania State University

• Development of the Swedish coal mining industry in Svalbard
  Dag Avango, doctoral candidate, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
• Development of vacationing and tourism in the Upper Midwest from WWI to the 1950s
  Aaron Shapiro, doctoral candidate, University of Chicago

• The Role of Fraternal Organizations in International Socio-economic Networking during the 19th Century
  Roger Burt, Prof. Of Mining History, University of Exeter, Devon, England
• The Legal and Political Career of Copper Country lawyer Patrick O’Brien
  Timothy O’Neil, Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University

• The History of Hecla Location, C&H worker housing
  Donna Zimmerman, master’s candidate, UW-Madison
• Resurgent Mining Communities, White Pine, Michigan
  Lisa Wilson, doctoral candidate, UW-Madison

• Irish immigrants in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, 1840-1920
  William Mulligan, Jr., Associate Professor, Murry State University, Kentucky
• First Language Shift in the Copper Mining Communities of the Keweenaw Peninsula
  Beth Lee Simon, Assistant Professor, Indiana University/Purdue University

C&H Uranium Mining in New Mexico, 1953-1964
David Salmanson, doctoral candidate, University of Michigan