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Project directors from Michigan Tech and Wayne State bring together expertise in geography, historical GIS, history, archaeology, computer science, and community-based research. |
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Michigan Tech is a leader in community deep mapping and offers unparalleled expertise and facilities. The Keweenaw Time Traveler and the Copper Country Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure which powers the Time Traveler have been developed by faculty, staff, and students in Michigan Tech’s Geospatial Research Facility (GRF) and the interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences. With two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (in 2016 and 2020), the Council on Library and Information Resources (2020), and other local and national funders, the team worked with community partners and over 50 undergraduate and graduate students from around the University to build a pioneering robust deep map that includes over 1,200 historical maps and nearly 20 million variables on the people, places, and buildings across numerous communities in Michigan. This experience in community partnership is rooted in Michigan Tech’s graduate program in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology, which has been on the forefront of studying the people and landscapes of America’s industrial communities for over 30 years.
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Wayne State is an urban research university in Detroit. Wayne State faculty, students, and community partners have collaborated on over a dozen community archaeology, history, and mapping projects over the past decade, including the Ethnic Layers of Detroit digital storytelling project and the Hamtramck Spatial Archaeology Project, both funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2014 and 2021). This work has been led by the Department of Anthropology, whose faculty are nationally recognized for their expertise in community archaeology, applied anthropology, interdisciplinary research, and public scholarship. In 2020 researchers from Wayne State began collaborating with colleagues from Michigan Tech on community deep mapping projects, resulting in the prototype Hamtramck Explorer deep map and other initiatives.
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Institute directors and staff from both Michigan Tech and Wayne State will be on site along with colleagues invited from around the country to work with Fellows in Michigan Tech’s state-of-the-art historical GIS facilities on the banks of Lake Superior. |
