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Contributors to This Issue
Betsy Fahlman, professor of art history at Arizona State University, has long been interested in the intersections of art and industry, writing an occasional column on this theme for SIAN and serving as IA guest editor for two special issues focused on art and industry (1986, 2002). Her most recent publication on IA is Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster (2007). She serves on the SIA Board of Directors.
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Todd Gilens is a landscape architect in San Francisco and member of the Samuel Knight chapter of SIA.
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John Griebel, former Peace Corps volunteer, mental health social worker, drama director, social studies teacher, and hockey goaltender, is in his second year of graduate studies in IA at Michigan Technological University. He is continuing his research in the Nonesuch Mine (1866–1912) located in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Upper Peninsula, Michigan.
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David Guise, professor emeritus at City College of N.Y. and former visiting professor at Columbia Univ. and at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, has retired after 40 years as a practicing architect, finding time to research the evolution of structural forms, especially those used in truss bridges. Publications include Design and Technology in Architecture, 1985 (rev. 1991), annual updating articles on architecture and civil engineering for Encyclopaedia Britannica (1990–95), and truss bridge articles in a variety of journals, including ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering.
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Alison K. Hoagland, professor of history and historic preservation at Michigan Technological University, is currently working on a book on workers' housing in the Copper Country of Michigan. Her previous books have focused on forts in Wyoming and buildings in Alaska.
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Charles K. Hyde is professor of history at Wayne State University and is the author of The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes.
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Nancy Farm Männikkö earned a doctorate in science and technology studies at Virginia Tech, has worked as a historian with HAER, and is currently working as a architectural historian with the Midwest Regional Office of the National Park Service.
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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 as well as editor of the Canal History and Technology Press. He is the co-author of books on transportation and industrial history as well as numerous articles in regional historical journals.
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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.
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Terry S. Reynolds is professor of history at Michigan Technological University, author or editor of more than a half-dozen works dealing with aspects of the history of technology, and once instructor of a class devoted to the history of civil engineering.
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David S. Rotenstein has a PhD in folklore and folklife from the University of Pennsylvania and works as a historical consultant in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has done research in the leather tanning and meatpacking industries and has written several articles and encyclopedia entries on these topics. In addition to telecommunications history, he currently is researching the career of architect, engineer, and artist John Skirving.
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David Shayt, curator of hand tools and engineering at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, has written on the ivory-working districts of Connecticut (1992) and the cymbal-making quarters of Massachusetts and New Brunswick (1989).
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Alicia Valentino received her PhD in 2006 in anthropology/archaeology from the University of Arkansas. She is now employed by a CRM firm in Seattle, Washington, where her current project focuses on urban archaeology and the reconstruction of Seattle's historic industrial waterfront.
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| Steven A. Walton teaches history of technology and society in Penn State's STS program and is working on the textual 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, which includes large sections on milling and iron production <www.engr.psu.edu/mtah>. |
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