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Contributors to This Issue
Stephanie K. Atwood received degrees in English and art history from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has worked with the Keweenaw National Historical Park to put a town on the National Register. Currently a graduate student in Michigan Technological University's industrial archaeology program, she worked at the West Point Foundry archaeological site during Summer 2006.
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John Austen got his history degree at Virginia Tech in 1970. Since then, he has been with the Defense Department. In real life, he is a member of several historical societies and reviewer for several journals.
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Jamie C. Brandon, assistant professor at Southern Arkansas University and archeologist for the Arkansas Archeological Survey's Research Station in Magnolia, Arkansas, is the author of several articles, technical reports, and monographs that deal with late-19th-century industrial sites. He is the co-editor (with Kerri Barile) of Household Chores and Household Choices: Theorizing the Domesticity in Historical Archaeology (University of Alabama Press, 2004).
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Justine Christianson earned her master's degree in history with a concentration in historic preservation in 2003 and is currently employed as a historian with the Historic American Engineering Record of the National Park Service.
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Charles L. Flint, a native of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, owns an Art & Antiques Gallery in Lenox, Massachusetts. A past director of the Mt. Lebanon Shaker Village, New York, he lectures and writes on early-American glass, glassworks, and historical silica sand industries, as well as on art, antiques in general, and local history.
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John D. Greenough, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus, uses geochemical data to characterize and interpret a wide variety of media, including volcanic rocks, archaeological lithic and ceramic artifacts, and wine.
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Robert Griffin is manager of history at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, BC, Canada. Much of his research relates British Columbia's natural resource industries, technological change, and community development, especially in relation to the forest industry.
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Cameron C. Hartnell, who is working on a PhD in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology at Michigan Technological University, has a master's of heritage conservation from the University of Sydney and has worked as a heritage conservationist in Australia with a general focus on industrial sites. Cameron's doctoral research is centered on the Arctic Coal Company on the Arctic island of Svalbard, Norway.
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Charles K. Hyde is professor of history at Wayne State University and the author of numerous articles and books dealing with industrial history, industrial archaeology, and the history of technology, including Historic Highway Bridges of Michigan (1993). He is a recent winner of SIA's Robert M. Vogel Prize.
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Katherine Irwin, a recent graduate of Saint Mary's University (BSc. Hons.), has worked as an ore control/production geologist at a copper mine in New Mexico and is presently doing exploration work for Rio Tinto Energy America in Gillette, Wyoming.
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Vanessa C. McLean is a master's candidate in industrial archaeology at Michigan Technological University. Her background is in historical archaeology (MA, Univ. of Bristol, UK) with current research interests in industrial workers, their families, and their housing.
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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, he is the editor of the Canal History and Technology Press.
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Larry Mishkar currently divides his time between freelance industrial archaeology projects and photography assignments. His main professional interests are industrial landscapes of the arctic, railroads, and bridges. He lives (at this writing) in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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J. Victor Owen is a professor of geology at Saint Mary's University. He is interested in the information provided by compositional data for metamorphic rocks and in historical glass and ceramics.
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Robert W. Passfield, senior historian (retired), Historical Services Branch, Parks Canada, has prepared numerous reports recording and evaluating historic engineering sites and structures. On joining Parks Canada in June 1974, his first assignment was to record the historic bridges on the Rideau Canal. In 1987, he was awarded the Norton Prize (now Robert M. Vogel Prize) by SIA for "The Role of the Historian in Reconstructing Historic Engineering Structures: Parks Canada's Experience on the Rideau Canal, 1976–1983" (IA, vol. 11, no. 1, 1985).
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Fredric L. Quivik is a consulting historian of technology living in Philadelphia. Much of his work is as an expert witness for Superfund and related environmental litigation. His expertise includes the history of mining and metallurgical technologies, which includes the organization of global and complex mining enterprises.
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David A. Simmons, editor of Timeline, has more than 29 years of experience in the evaluation and documentation of historic structures, including oversight of the Ohio state department responsible for the state inventory and national register nominations. Since 1983, he has advised and been a contributing writer for statewide historic bridge inventories, written a regular column—"Historically Speaking"—in the County Engineer's Association quarterly magazine, assembled the program for seven historic bridge conferences, and served as president of the Ohio Historic Bridge Association.
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Gary van Lingen is a 2003 graduate of Michigan Technological University's industrial archaeology program. He is presently a PhD student in the geography department of Syracuse University, focusing on place, memory, and the construction of community. Reviewing Echoes of Forgotten Places brought back many fond memories of his own urban explorer past that led him to focus on industrial archaeology at the graduate level.
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| Donald S. Young, a long time SIA member and a resident of Center Valley, Pennsylvania, is employed as a metallurgist and casting pit foreman at the Mittal Steel plant at Steelton. He is a graduate of Drexel University and has gained quite a reputation as a steam engine mechanic and driver. Until its demise, he was employed at the Bethlehem plant of the former Bethlehem Steel Corporation. |
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