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Our Graduates

Graduates of the the Industrial Archeology and Environmental Policy Programs find employment and career opportunities in a number of different areas. Many choose to pursue doctoral degrees; others find private sector employment. Thus graduates of the industrial archaeology program are working for cultural resource management (CRM) or engineering consulting firms. Graduates of both program find positions in government agencies at various levels. Here is where some of our graduates are now.

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2006

Justin Barnes, 2006 graduate.

Mirit Shamir, 2006 graduate. Has relocated to Baltimore.

Michael Deegan, 2006 graduate; currently Research Associate for the Department of Social Sciences at MTU.

Arron Kotlensky, 2006 graduate.

Christopher Merritt, defending thesis, fall 2006;  doctoral program in archaeology, University of Montana

Scott See, 2006 graduate. Entered doctoral program in industrial heritage and archaeology, MTU.

Robert Staves, 2006, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC

Heidi Steudle

2005

Patrick Baird, 2005

Rachel Herzberg, 2005

Katherine Kruse, 2005,  Americorps, BHK Child Development Center, Houghton MI. Katherine is working for the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in Baraga, MI, as an Environmental Program Response Specialist in their Department of Natural Resources..

Samir Qadir, 2005, Potomac-Hudson Engineering (environmental consulting firm)

Suika Rivett, 2005

Agustin Morua Robles, 2005 graduate. Entered doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering at MTU.

Katherine Strong, 2005     Attending Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland Oregon

Edward Tennant, 2005, Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of Florida

Erin Timms, 2005

David Vago, 2005, Executive Director, Preservation Alliance of West Virginia

Xin (Joy) Wang, 2005, Ph.D. candidate in agricultural and resource economics, University of Kentucky

2004

Jennifer Binkley-Power, 2004, instructor, Isle Royale Institute, Michigan Technological University

Kim Finch: 2004, Staff Archaeologist, Summit Envirosolutions Inc., Carson City, NV.
Recent publication: "Ground-Penetrating Radar Surveys at the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, NY," / SIA Newsletter 34/ no. 1 (Winter 2005): 11-12.

Cristina Menghini: 2004, business archivist for ENI, S.p.A., Milan, Italy.

Larry Mishkar: 2004, 2004-06 was Research Associate for the Department;currently conducts freelance work in industrial archaeology and photography.

Joe Wilson: 2004, Technologist at the DNA laboratory at the Greenwood Genetics Center, Greenwood, South Carolina, and a visiting instructor in Anthropology at Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina. Joe has been awarded a 4-year fellowship for Ph.D. work at the University of Florida beginning fall 2007. He joins Ed Tennant in that program.

2003

Melanie Barbier, 2003, Ph.D. Program in Sociology of Wildlife and Fisheries, Michigan State University

Timothy Fillmore, 2003, instructor, Bay Mills Indian Community, Brimley, Michigan

Ying Han, 2003, MUP Program in Urban Planning, University of Michigan

Salvadora Keith, 2003, tutor, Finlandia University, Michigan

Tim Mancl: 2003 graduate; industrial archaeologist Heite Consulting, Camden, Delaware.

Kathleen Miller, 2003, Tucson, Arizona

Alicia Valentino: Alicia Valentino graduated with her M.S. from Michigan Tech in 2003 and received her Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas in 2006. She is currently working in Seattle, Washington for a cultural resources company doing archaeology throughout the city.

Gary Van Lingen: 2003, compelted his PhD at Syracuse University.

Feilin Wang, 2003, Irvine, California

Lin Zhu, 2003, Wisconsin, trade-related research and consulting

2002

Gianfranco Archimede: 2002 graduate.

Guangqing Chi, 2002, Ph.D. Program in Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin

Christi Corey-Luse, 2002, NEPA Coordinator for the USDA Forest Service, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin

Julie Kloss: 2002 graduate; archaeologist with Two Pines Resource Group, Shafer, MN.

Jet Lowe: 2002 graduate; photographer, National Park Service, HABS/HAER program.

Michael Madson: 2002 graduate; HDR, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Elizabeth Norris: 2002 graduate; PhD candidate, University of Massachusetts- Amherst.

Efstathios Pappas: 2002 graduate; PhD candidate, University of Nevada-Reno.

2001

Abhijit Banerjee, 2001, Ph.D. Program in Environmental and Energy Policy, University of Delaware

Bo Yan, 2001

Caroline Vander Schee, 2001, 2001, Ph.D. Program in Educational Policy at Georgia State University.

Qingsong Ji, 2001

James Gondek, 2001, RMT Inc., Madison, WI

Melissa Hornyak, 2001, research attorney for the Michigan State Court of Appeals.

2000

Jeff Myrom, 2000, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines, Iowa

1999

Michelle Jarvie, 1999, Ph.D Program in Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University

1998

Mika Valtasaari, 1998, Nokia, Copenhagen, Denmark

Tammy Adamec, 1998, University of Michigan Law School