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The Michigan Tech Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2007 Research Travel Award program. The program provides support for travel, food, and lodging to carry out research using the collections of the Michigan Tech Archives. The Friends of the Van Pelt Library, a support organization for the Library and Archives of Michigan Technological University, provides financial support for the travel award program.
The Archives received a broad field of submissions for the eighth year of offering the Travel Award and were able to provide support for three of this year’s applicants. Three visiting scholars will receive a check from the Friends of the Van Pelt Library following a public presentation of their research as part of the Archival Speakers Series. Each of the grant recipients have plans to publish their research in academic journals in the near future, and the Travel Grant funding may lead to the publication of book-length manuscripts as well.
Paul Lubotina, adjunct professor at Northern Michigan University, is researching the history of Serbians in Michigan. He comes to the Archives in June to explore the role of Serbs in the Copper Country and to investigate whether Serbian immigrants might have been misclassified based on their country of origin rather than ethnic affiliation.
Kathryn Remlinger, associate professor at Grand Valley State University, continues her research into language and life in the Keweenaw Peninsula. She will examine how Copper Country residents used language to construct ethnic and local identities, and what linguistic features characterize particular identities. A July presentation is planned.
Peter Simons, PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, challenges assumptions of the Midwest as a socially isolated region in the mid-20th century. He visits the Archives in August to learn how the Copper Country’s immigrant population and the mining companes’ ties to world markets influenced Upper Midwest internationalism during World War II.
For further information about the awards program or about the collections of the Michigan Tech Archives, call 487-2505.