Congratulating Dr. Sarah Fayen Scarlett

The Keweenaw Time Traveler team has more good news to announce. Our project Co-Director, Dr. Sarah Fayen Scarlett just received a promotion, with tenure, from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor. Dr. Scarlett is a social historian studying landscapes, architecture, and material culture with the understanding that we both influence, and are influenced by, our built and social environments. 

This promotion is certainly well-deserved. Dr. Scarlett's research and engagement at both local and national levels highlights the significance of the Copper Country.

Dr. Scarlett has a forthcoming book titled Company Suburbs: Architecture, Power, and The Transformation of Michigan's Mining Frontier (University of Tennessee Press 2021), and she being the Project Director for the major grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources, Digitizing Hidden and Special Collections and Archives for Michigan Miners at Home and Work: Digitizing, Mapping, and Sharing Employment Records, a project focusing on transcribing, mapping, and record linking 40,000 employee cards from the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company.

​Under Drs. Scarlett and Lafreniere, the Keweenaw Time Traveler has continued to grow. We recently received an additional National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities grant which will fund our deep mapping efforts through 2023.