Travel Grants

The Travel Grants program is suspended at present. Applications for 2022 may once again be made beginning in January of 2022.

Annually, the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections offers travel grants to non-local researchers and scholars who wish to conduct research in the Archives. The Travel Grant Program is designed to increase awareness of the Archives' collections and encourage the use of lesser-known collections.

Past recipients of these grants have examined a diverse range of topics including the roles fraternal orders had in Lake Superior mining communities, the development of mine company housing and the Upper Peninsula's shift from an industrial driven economy to one focused on tourism. Visiting scholars have traveled from locations as nearby as the lower peninsula of Michigan and as far away as Sweden and England.

The Travel Grant Program is funded by The Friends of the Michigan Tech Library, a support organization for the Library and Archives of Michigan Tech.

Past Award Recipients