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Contributors to This Issue
John Austen received his history degree from Virginia Tech. He is a reviewer for several historical societies (including the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society) and serves the federal government as an information technology specialist.
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Mary Lee Baranger, professor emerita in the Department of Art History at Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, is a lifelong resident of Manhattan. Her specialty is New York City history, architecture, and planning.
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Michael Bernstein, an environmental assessor and asbestos building inspector for 18 years, has assessed commercial and industrial properties in 29 states plus Canada, Mexico, and Germany. He has authored six articles published in Nautical Research Journal, five of which pertain to historic shipyards proposed or constructed along the Delaware River. In 1985, with the support of John Cotter (University of Pennsylvania), he salvaged artifacts from a body of municipal solid waste deposited at a site in West Philadelphia during the 1860s. During the early 1980s, he recovered c. 1900 cullet from the Whitney Glass Works of Glassboro, New Jersey (SIAN, 1992).
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Lake Douglas, a landscape historian, holds degrees in landscape architecture from LSU and Harvard and a PhD in Urban Studies/Urban History from University of New Orleans. He has written widely for professional publications, academic journals, and the popular press. In 2005 he was professional-in-residence in the School of Landscape Architecture, Louisiana State University.
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Cameron C. Hartnell is a student at Michigan Technological University, working toward a PhD in Industrial Archaeology. Cameron has a master's degree in heritage conservation from the University of Sydney and has worked as a heritage conservationist in Australia with a general focus on industrial sites. He hopes to pursue his PhD research 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 Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation and The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy.
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Susan R. Martin is an associate professor of archaeology and anthropology at Michigan Technological University. She earned her PhD from Michigan State University and pursues interests in heritage management, public archaeology, prehistoric technologies, and the history of anthropological inquiry. She has just completed a book-length manuscript on the careers of four prominent female anthropologists.
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Marco Meniketti, an assistant professor of archaeology at San Jose State University, is director of the Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Caribbean Studies. He received his doctorate from Michigan State and holds an MS in Industrial Archaeology from Michigan Technological University. He has worked at several sites throughout the Caribbean. An SIA member since 1997, his research interests include colonial settlement, plantation systems, ships from the age of discovery, and underwater archaeology. Currently he is the director of an archaeological field school on Nevis, West Indies.
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Elizabeth Norris, ABD at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is working with Michigan Technological University on the West Point Foundry Preserve for her dissertation. She has worked with MTU and Scenic Hudson, Inc., at the West Point Foundry site in Cold Spring, New York, since 2002 and has resided in the area for the past four years. Her research focuses on the relationship between West Point Foundry workers and the Village of Cold Spring.
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Susan M. Ross is a conservation architect specializing in heritage conservation with the federal department of Public Works of the Canadian government. Her MSc in Planning focused on the history of Montreal's water-supply system. IA, v. 29, no. 1 (2003), contains an article she wrote dealing with the choice between steam or waterpower for Montreal's 19th-century water-supply system.
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James A. Rudkin, a master's candidate in industrial archaeology at Michigan Technological University, holds a BA in Art History and a BFA in Glass from Kent State University. His current research focuses on the conservation and preservation of historic stained glass.
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David R. Starbuck is an associate professor of anthropology at Plymouth State University, part of the University System of New Hampshire. He is vice-president of the Society for Industrial Archeology and has excavated 18th-century military sites in northern New York State and Vermont since 1985. His most recent book is The Archeology of New Hampshire (2006).
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Wesley Thompson is a graduate student in the Historic Preservation program at Eastern Michigan University. He is currently researching the buildings and styles of Detroit architect George D. Mason and his partners. Other research interests include Detroit's railroad freight car industry and the fur trade.
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Martha W. Virts, a member of Montgomery C. Meigs chapter of SIA for about 16 years, is interested in the history of old houses and buildings. Barry D. Virts, her husband and fellow SIA member who helped her on this review, is general maintenance supervisor at the U.S. Capitol Power Plant in Washington, DC.
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Steven A. Walton teaches history of technology and society in Penn State's STS Program and is working on the contextual histories of both the West Point Foundry in New York and the Mount Savage Iron Works in Maryland. He is also co-creator of the NEH-funded website Building Community: Medieval Technology and American History <www.engr.psu.edu/mtah>, which includes large sections on milling and iron production.
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Paul J. White earned an MS in Industrial Archaeology at Michigan Technological University and is pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at Brown University. He has spent the last several years studying historic mining sites, working for the National Park Service and the Environmental Protection Agency. His dissertation research examines historic conflicts over water and resource rights between Timbisha Shoshone families and miners in Death Valley, California.
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