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    <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#993300">Fully-Funded MS and PhD Graduate Assistantships Available</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#993300">Department of Social Sciences</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#993300">Michigan Technological University</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University is now accepting applications for its MS and PhD programs. Our department is exceptionally interdisciplinary with core strengths in studying
     the processes and impacts on communities of industrialization, deindustrialization and revitalization through the use of GIS and spatial analysis, material culture, the built environment, ethnography, and heritage practice.  We also have strengths in environment,
     energy, and heritage policy.   <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Teaching and research assistantships are available that
    <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">provide two years of funding for MS students and a minimum of three years of funding for PhD students</span></strong>. The assistantships include a
    <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">stipend and tuition</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
    The MA and PhD programs involve courses and a thesis advised by an interdisciplinary faculty with perspectives from geography, history, archaeology, anthropology, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
    Faculty are now recruiting graduate students for funded positions within several projects, including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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    <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Keweenaw Time Traveler, a public-participatory historical GIS project (<a href="https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.keweenawhistory.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ceda3a4fc5e6b48717b1308d787ec9d52%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C637127322637498275&sdata=%2FnZq792h3IVhoRMhas6pe6sFuweY7Fb%2BXM7RgF9oHxc%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://www.keweenawhistory.com" shash="hpe9wY4NpXP1djlMQxuoXf3sU+64NlhW1Pq75ZIcYl8lvFfULUKAgG36yEFVouNuDbTLioQ9LzPTmuOaj/1R6m3HSZ+TwxoLELao0IxKcfCdo37koeLlGW1TOMn+7dNiJH5KRjdzybvUcNkg9GXaaRFf6tV1X1a6tzCMAw8f64o=" title="http://www.keweenawhistory.com">keweenawhistory.com</a>),
     led by Dr. Don Lafreniere<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
    <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">International Migration of French-Canadians, a historical demography project, led by Dr. Don Lafreniere<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
    <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Children's Health in Industrial Communities, led by Dr. Don Lafreniere<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
    <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cultural and Economic Impacts from UNESCO World Heritage in Wales led by Dr. Mark Rhodes (tourism, identity, and heritage in post-industrial communities)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
    <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Working Class Labor, Social Mobility, and Mining Communities, led by Dr. Sarah Scarlett<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
    <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Adaptive Reuse, Economic Revitalization, and Cultural Renewal: repurposing decommissioned mines into underground pumped storage facilities led by Dr. Roman Sidortsov<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
    <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Finger Lakes Farmstead Archaeology Project, led by Dr. LouAnn Wurst (exploring capitalist transformations in agriculture)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
    <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Coalwood Archaeology Project, led by Dr. LouAnn Wurst (focusing on labor in Cleveland Cliffs Iron Mine lumber camps)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
    <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Archaeological Perspectives on the Nordic Diaspora, led by Dr. LouAnn Wurst (industrial labor in Finland and Michigan's Upper Peninsula)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
    <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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).<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Other department foci include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">History of Industrial Communities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Brownfield Revitalization and Heritage Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Environmental History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Critical Memory and Heritage Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">History of Technology and/or Industrial Production<o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Heritage, Landscapes, and Water/Energy Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <h2><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Application Procedure<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Application deadline is January 15, 2020 for admission in Fall 2020.   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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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: <a href="http://www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/graduate/osm-vista/" title="http://www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/graduate/osm-vista/">
    www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/graduate/osm-vista/.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">You can find information about our faculty, courses, degree requirements, and guidelines for preparing your application on our program webpage: 
    <a href="http://www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/graduate/programs/" title="http://www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/graduate/programs/">
    www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/graduate/programs</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For specific questions about projects and research assistantships, please contact the lead faculty member. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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    <br>
    ------------------------------<br>
    Don Lafreniere<br>
    Associate Professor of Geography and GIS<br>
    Department of Social Sciences and Great Lakes Research Center<br>
    Michigan Tech University<br>
    djlafren@mtu.edu<br>
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