Faculty
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Graduate Director, Social Sciences
Research Interests
- Extractive zones
- STEMM Equity in Higher ED
- Forensic & Ethnographic methods
- Teaching Professor, History & Anthropology
- Anthropology Program Advisor
- cblair@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3625
- AOB 222 (Spring 23' Office Hours Mondays 11am-12pm & Wednesdays 2-3pm)
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Experimental Archaeology
- Early Large scale iron production
- Roman and Anglo-Saxon England
- Rise of socially complex societies
- International program development
- Associate Professor, Environmental/Energy Justice
- Please note: Not accepting new students academic year 2023-2024
- ancarter@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1431
- Academic Office Building (Student hours Mondays 1-3 schedule using link below)
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental & rural sociology
- Community-based and participatory research
- Social movements and social change
- Gender & ecofeminism
- Agrifood systems
- Associate Vice President for Research Development
- University Professor of Natural Resource Policy
- Joint Appointment in Social Sciences and CFRES
- kehalvor@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3098
- Lakeshore Center 304
Areas of Expertise
- Climate change mitigation policy
- Arctic climate change impacts
- Energy conservation policy
- Renewable energy policy
- Indigeneity and climate policy
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Coordinator of Student Programs
- Policy and Community Development Program Advisor
- khannum@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2824
- AOB 225 (Spring 23' Office Hours Tuesdays & Thursdays 11am-12pm)
Research Interests
- National Identity
- Migration and Diaspora
- Sociolinguistics
- Memorial Landscapes
- Geographies of Sport
Regional Focus
- The Hispanic World
- Spain
- Argentina
- Teaching Professor
- Peace Corps Prep Program Director
- Sustainability Science and Society Program Advisor
- kbhenqui@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2116
- AOB 226 (Spring 23' Office Hours Wednesdays 1-3pm)
Areas of Expertise
- International/transnational development
- Faith-based development
- Gender
- Human rights
- Global service learning
- African studies (Niger)
- Disaster risk reduction and vulnerability
- Department Chair, Social Sciences
- Director, Geospatial Research Facility
- Associate Professor of Geography and GIS
- djlafren@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2189
- AOB 215 (Spring 23' Office Hours Tuesdays 9-11am)
Research Interests
- Environmental Change and Life Course Epidemiology
- Urban Environments and Population Health
- Public Participatory GIS
- Historical GIS & Deep Mapping
- Spatial Humanities
- Deindustrialization and Shrinking Cities
- Time-Space Integration and Modeling in GIS
- Demography and Historical Record Linkage
- Sense of Place and Neighborhood Construction
- Distinguished Professor of Environmental History, Social Sciences
- Affiliated Professor, CFRES
- nelangs3@mtu.edu
- AOB 220 (Spring 23' Office Hours Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Areas of Interest
- Toxics, forested watersheds, and northern lakes
- Environmental history
- Watershed change and water quality
- Mining history
- Associate Teaching Professor
- Social Sciences Program Advisor
- University Ombuds
- speters@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2391
- AOB 219 (Spring 23' Office Hours Tuesdays and Thursdays 2-3pm, or by appt)
Areas of Interest
- Resource Economics
- Cyberlaw
- Intellectual Property
- Constitutional Law
- Orientation to Legal Careers
- American Government
"Every artist, every scientist, must decide NOW where they stand. They have no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction-in certain countries-of the greatest of human literary heritages, through the propagation of false ideas of racial and national superiority, the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. The struggle invades the formerly cloistered halls of our universities and other seats of learn
- Assistant Professor of Geography
- marhodes@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2459
- AOB 211 (Spring 23' Office Hours Wednesdays 10am-12pm)
Research Interests
- Post-Industrial Geographies & Heritage
- National Identity in the 21st Century
- Cultural Sustainability and Sustainable Tourism
- Political Ecology, Place, & Memory
- Critical Geographies & Memorial Landscapes
Areas of Expertise
- Memory and Memorialization
- Heritage Institutions
- Cultural Landscape
- Welsh Studies
- Historical Geography
- Cultural Geographies
- Associate Professor of History
- jrobins@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3080
- AOB 223 (Spring 23' Office Hours Wednesdays 1-3pm)
Areas of Expertise
- Commodity history
- Global economic and business history
- History of colonialism
- Food history
- Associate Teaching Professor
- History Program Advisor
- lwrouleau@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2870
- AOB 212 (Spring 23' Office Hours Tuesdays & Thursdays 11am-12pm)
- Associate Professor, Social Sciences
- mdroulea@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2039
- AOB 205 (Spring 23' Office Hours Tuesdays and Thursdays 11am-12pm)
Research Interests
- Interdisciplinary studies
- Social simulation (agent-based modeling)
- Policy analysis
- International relations
- Sustainability assessment
- Complex adaptive systems
- Norm evolution and social influence
- STEM education evaluation
- Research design and methods
- Associate Professor of History
- sfscarle@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2110
- Academic Office Building 221
Research Interests
- Spatial, material, and experiential aspects of social power in industrial communities
- Historical GIS for Community-Engaged Scholarship
- American Vernacular Architecture and Material Culture Studies
- Public History, Historic Preservation, and Museums
- History of Design, Craft, and Production in the United States
- Cultural Landscapes and Historic Architecture of the Keweenaw
"Whereas innovation, in the backwards reading of creativity, lies outside of time, improvisation, in a forward reading, is inherently temporal."
—Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold (2007) Creativity and Cultural Improvisation. Berg, New York.
—Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold (2007) Creativity and Cultural Improvisation. Berg, New York.
- Associate Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology
- scarlett@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2359
- AOB 210 (Spring 23' Office Hours Mondays 9-11am)
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Historical and Industrial Archaeologies
- Creativity and Work Process
- Archaeometry and Conservation Sciences
- Remote Sensing, Survey, and Geospatial Sciences
- Community-based scholarship, public science/humanities
- Heritage, Placemaking, and Culture Building
- Associate Professor of Sociology
- Affiliated Associate Professor, CFRES
- cschelly@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1759
- AOB 200A (Spring 23' Office Hours Mondays and Thursdays at 10am)
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Alternative technology adoption
- Renewable energy technologies
- Renewable and alternative technology policy
- Sustainable communities
- Energy conservation and consumption practices
- Self-provisioning
- Environmental education
- Associate Professor, Energy Policy
- rsidortsov@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1095
- Academic Office Building 206
Research Interests
- Sustainable Energy Systems
- Energy Security and Justice
- Risk Governance of the Energy Sector
- Arctic Energy Development
- Russian Energy Policy
- U.S. Energy Policy
Areas of Expertise
- Energy and Environmental Policy
- Comparative and International Energy Law
- U.S. Energy Law
- U.S. Environmental Law
- Russian Energy and Environmental Law
- Energy Geopolitics
"All this information, this material, must be taken up and reconsidered in the light of man himself, and one must try if possible, to rediscover, beyond all the details, life itself... Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that...we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life."
—Fernand Braudel, On History, 1980.
—Fernand Braudel, On History, 1980.
- Associate Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology
- srsweitz@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1476
- AOB 213 (Spring 23' Office Hours Tuesdays and Thursdays 11am - 12pm)
Research Interests
- Historical and Industrial Archaeology
- Social, Economic, and Political Dimensions of Haciendas, Plantations, and Industrial Communities in the American West, Latin America, and the Caribbean
- Issues Related to Colonialism, World-Systems Analysis, post-Colonialism, and Globalization
- Relevance of Archaeology and Heritage to Identity Formation and Contemporary Social Systems
"I find it astonishing that any man can regard fine machinery without admiration."
—John William Stone (in Stones Fall, by Iain Pears)
—John William Stone (in Stones Fall, by Iain Pears)
- Associate Professor of History
- sawalton@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3272
- AOB 224 (Spring 23' Office Hours Mondays 3-4pm & Tuesdays 11am-12pm)
Areas of Expertise
- history of technology
- history of science
- artillery, fortification, ordnance
- history of engineering
- military history
- Early Modern European history
"Academics are the only people I can think of for whom this sentence makes sense: 'I'm hoping to get some time off so that I can get some work done.'"
—Sidney Verba
—Sidney Verba
- Professor of Public Policy, Social Sciences
- awellste@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2115
- Academic Office Building 227
Links of Interest
Areas of Expertise
- Policy advisory systems
- Governance and political mechanisms
- Survey research
- Policy process frameworks
Areas of Interest
- Canadian Energy and Environmental Issues
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Oil Sands Development
- Forest Policy
- Canadian Studies
- Policy Innovation Labs
- Policy Design
- Professor of Sociology and Demography, Social Sciences
- Social Sciences Undergraduate Studies Director
- rwinkler@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1886
- AOB 217 (Spring 23' Office Hours Wednesdays 9:30-11:30am)
Areas of Expertise
- Rural Sociology
- Population and Environment
- Environmental Sociology
- Community Engaged Scholarship
- Internal Migration
- GIS and spatial analysis
- Professor of Archaeology
- lawurst@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3188
- Academic Office Building 216
Research Interests
- Historical and Industrial Archaeology
- Archaeology of Capitalism
- Class and Inequality
- Marxist Theory
- Historic Preservation and Cultural Resource Management
- Assistant Professor, Environmental and Energy Policy
- shanzhou@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2864
- Academic Office Building 203
Fields
Environmental and Energy Policy
Research Interests
- Environmental & Energy Policy
- Smart Grids, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency & Green Buildings
- Sustainable Technology Adoption & Diffusion
- Environmental and Energy Justice
- Urban and Local Sustainability
- Policy Processes
- Policy Analysis
Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty
- Director, University-Indigenous Community Partnerships, Great Lakes Research Center
- Assistant Professor, College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science
- vsgagnon@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2180
- Noblet Building 168
Research Interests
- University-Community Partnerships, research engagement, and equitable practice and design
- Environmental Justice and Policy, toxic substances, risk management, and promoting holistic health
- Indigenous / Native American Studies, treaties and the government-to-government relationship, food sovereignty, and Indigenous wisdom in the Great Lakes region
- Environmental Stewardship and the Seven Generations Philosophy
- Instructor, Social Sciences
- tcholmst@mtu.edu
- AOB 208 (Spring 23' Office Hours Tues & Thurs 11:00-11:50 am)
Research Interests
- Expanding the Benefits of Globalization and Addressing its Deleterious Effects
- Facilitating Inclusive Economic Growth and Development
- Empowering Agents of Positive Change and Innovation
- Energy Independence
- Resolving Intractable Problems and Conflict
Areas of Professional Expertise
- International Relations
- Foreign Policy
- National Security Strategy
- International Economic Policy
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Cognitive and Learning Sciences
- Instructor, Social Sciences
- chungwe@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2873
- Meese 204/AOB 208
Carolin Sjöholm
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Social Sciences
- sjoholm@mtu.edu
- AOB 208 (Spring 23' Office Hours Wed 1-2 pm, Thurs 2-3 pm)
Education
- PhD, Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- MS, Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- BS, Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Areas of Expertise
- Policy Evaluation
- Development Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
- Health Economics
Shardul Tiwari
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Social Sciences
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- PhD, Environmental and Energy Policy - 2022
- shardult@mtu.edu
- Cell: 616-419-0705
- Annex 203 (Spring 23' Office Hours Tues & Thurs 12:30-1:30 pm)
Education
- PhD, Environmental and Energy Policy, Michigan Technological University
- MSc, Power Engineering, Brandenburg Technological University, Germany
- B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Uttarakhand Technical University, India
Research Interests
- Energy and Environmental Policy
- Energy Security and Energy Justice
- Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
- Power System Economics and Demand Side Management
- Energy Transition
Daniel Trepal
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Social Sciences
- Senior Geospatial Research Scientist
- djtrepal@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3580
- GLRC 318 (Spring 23' Office Hours Mondays 11am-12 pm and by appt)
Education
- PhD, Industrial Heritage and Archaeology, Michigan Technological University
- MS, Industrial Archaeology, Michigan Technological University
- BS, Anthropology and History, Cleveland State University
Research Interests
- Industrial and Urban Archaeology
- Historical GIS
- Deindustrialization
- Industrial Landscapes
- The Archaeology of Brownfields
- Spatial Analysis of Historical Industrial Pollutants
- Big Data Approaches to Archaeology
- Publicly-engaged Scholarship
Staff
Christine Flood
- Office Assistant
- csflood@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2113
- Academic Office Building 209
Cindy Pindral
- Manager of Sustainability Outreach
- MS, Environmental and Energy Policy - 2022
- clpindra@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2114
- AOB 218
Advisor
Education
- MS, Environmental and Energy Policy, Michigan Technological University
- BA, Geography, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
- Graduate Certificate Sustainability, Michigan Technological University
Research Interests
- Energy Efficiency
- Sustainable Development
- Environmental Policy
- Climate Change
Daniel Schneider
- Society of Industrial Archeology (SIA) Headquarters Manager
- Asst. to the President of The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH)
- danielsc@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1889
- Annex 209
Amy Spahn
- Department Administrator
- aspahn@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1791
- Academic Office Building 214