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Contributors to This Issue
John Austen got his history degree at Virginia Tech in 1970 where he also had enough math to not be put off by an occasional square-root sign. He has worked for the government since then as a systems analyst and project manager but does not recall any projects that were completed as initially budgeted, like the Old Croton Aqueduct. He is a member of several historical societies, reviewer for several journals, and occasional theatrical producer and performer.
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Thomas E. Boothby, professor of architectural engineering at Pennsylvania State University, received an AB (architecture major) and an MS (civil engineering) from Washington University, and a PhD (civil engineering) from the University of Washington. His research interests include the history of engineering design and construction in masonry, reinforced concrete, and metals. He is a Registered Architect and Professional Engineer.
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Maggie Dennis is a historian at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. She received her master's degree in the history of technology from the Hagley Program at the University of Delaware in 1998. Her research interests include consumer and gender studies, and applications of solid-state electronics.
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Herbert Gottfried is a professor of landscape architecture at Cornell University, whose principal interest is the cultural and environmental history of the American landscape. Recent projects include a cultural landscape study of a line of latitude across the state of Massachusetts with photographer Frank Gohlke.
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Robert J. Kapsch is former chief of HABS/HAER. He is presently Senior Scholar in Historic Architecture and Historic Engineering, National Park Service, and a past member of the SIA Board of Directors. He is the author of numerous articles on early American transport construction and is the author of an illustrated history of American canals, available from W. W. Norton and Company.
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Haagen D. Klaus, whose initial archaeological fieldwork was with the Clintonville, New York, ironworks project, completed a master's in bioarchaeology at Southern Illinois University in 2003, which focused on prolonged mortuary patterns and symbols of ethnicity of the late pre-Hispanic Mochica ethnic group of northern Peru. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation at Ohio State University, which involves analysis of more than 500 human burials spanning AD 900–1750, examining the biological and cultural impacts of European contact on the north coast of Peru.
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Susan R. Martin is an associate professor of archaeology and anthropology at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan. She is the author of a book on prehistoric Indian copper mining and is currently working on a book about women ethnographers.
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Lance E. Metz is the historian for the National Canal Museum of Easton, Pennsylvania. He has served on the Board of SIA and both the Pennsylvania and American Canal societies. He has co-authored a number of books on topics of transportation and industrial history as well as numerous articles in regional historical journals. Among his other duties is his role as the editor of the Canal History and Technology Press.
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Jeremy Mouat teaches history at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada. In 2002 he served as president of the Mining History Association and has written extensively on the history of mining in North America.
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Elizabeth Norris graduated from the Master's in Industrial Archaeology program at Michigan Technological University in 2002. She has since continued her studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, obtaining another masters degree in 2004, and is currently working with Michigan Tech and Scenic Hudson, Inc., at the West Point Foundry site in New York doing research for her doctoral dissertation on the Village of Cold Spring.
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Dan O'Rourke, a graduate of the industrial archaeology program at Michigan Technological University, is an employee of Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. His research focuses on the development of the nuclear power industry, Cold War military technologies, and the charcoal iron industry.
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Francis A. Orr, BS EE, U.S. Naval Academy, was a U.S. Navy pilot for 10 years and a Northwest Airlines pilot for 28 years. He is a licensed steam engineer in the state of Minnesota and has been a steam operator and collector for 53 years.
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Gordon Pollard, professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh, carried out archaeological fieldwork and publication on pre-Hispanic societies of northern Chile and northwest Argentina for many years. He began a shift into the historical archaeology of the Adirondack region in the early 1980s, focusing on the former charcoal iron industry. He is also author of the book Bottles and Business in Plattsburgh, New York: 100 Years of Embossed Bottles as Historical Artifacts.
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Deborah L. Rotman is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Purdue University. Her research centers on how the social relations of class, gender, and ethnicity were created, codified, and reproduced through material objects and differential use of space during the transition from an agrarian-based economic system to one under industrial capitalism in the eastern United States. She is the co-editor along with Ellen-Rose Savulis of Shared Spaces and Divided Places: Material and Spatial Dimensions of Gender Relations and the American Historical Landscape.
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Andrew R. Sewell is a principal investigator for Hardlines Design Company in Columbus, Ohio, where he examines archaeological sites ranging from 4,000-year-old prehistoric campsites to 19th-century brick factories. He graduated in 1999 from Michigan Technological University's Master's in Industrial Archaeology program.
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Mark Zdepski is a member of SIA's Roebling Chapter, a practicing geologist (BS and MS in geology from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks), and a former mineral explorationist. He worked for a period in an underground metal mine for Anaconda Copper Company and has been involved in historical research on copper mining in New Jersey.
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