2009 Summer Field School
Faculty:
Director, Utah Pottery
Project
Co-Director, West Point
Foundry Project
Associate Professor of
Archaeology
Department of Social Sciences
Office Location: 213 Academic
Offices
Office Phone: 906.487.2359
Email
Utah
Pottery Project:
Join MTU's
Industrial Archaeologists digging in beautiful Southern Utah.
Project members are using archaeology to reconstruct the pottery
industry in nineteenth-century Utah. During the summer of 2009, we will excavate the site of Thomas and Sarah Davenport's pottery shop in Parowan, Utah (1853-1888). The Davenports were immigrants from the area of Brampton, Derbyshire, England, a region known for its stoneware factories.
The immigrant potters
provide excellent opportunities to study creativity, work, and adaptation,
since each potter left their home environment and set up new lives
in the desert west. They overcame challenges from
new raw material, limited technical knowledge, new fuels, and shortages
of equipment and capital. Social challenges were equally as
daunting-- limited business skills, new social expectations for
their products, globalization, industrialization, and new religious
contexts. Student excavators will also help interpret
the site to visitors and contribute to planning a replica of the Davenports' pot shop
that will operate at the Iron Mission State Park Museum in Cedar
City, Utah.
You can expect
to live in a field camp in the Wasatch mountains above Parowan. There is no residential housing fee. You can arrive in your own vehicle, but everyone will coordinate arrival times so staff can meet students arriving my air. Students
should bring their own tent and basic camping equipment. Some cooking
and other common supplies will be provided, but you will be responsible
for your own meals. On past projects, students often provision and prepare meals
collaboratively. More details about residential plans will
be provided at a later date.
This is an equal opportunity course, and students with disabilities or special needs should contact Dr. Scarlett to discuss accomodations during the registration process.
Dr. Scarlett leads the
research team. To register for the field school, please download
an application form here. If you
are an MTU student, a student from another
American university, or an international
student, please follow the rest of the instructions on this
page.
You can also see pictures
and details at:
http://www.ss.mtu.edu/faculty/Scarlett/Research/UPP/upphome.htm
MTU
Students:
Register for the Archaeology
Field School on WebReg just like a regular summer course.
Download an application form and fill it out.
You may be able to catch a ride to the opening meetings. Contact
Dr. Martin or Dr. Scarlett for details.
Students
from Other Universities:
First, download
an application form and send it to the IA program. Then students
should visit the Registrar at the home university and request a
"Guest Student Application Form." Using your own
university's form streamlines your credit transfer process.
If your university does not have such a form, access the web address
below and print out the State of Michigan's Guest Student Registration
Form.
https://www.admin.mtu.edu/em/students/records/guest.php
Type in your information.
You are applying to Michigan Technological University (Form item
#11). The form asks if you are planning to take either SS
3210, Track A (undergraduate) or SS 5700, Track A (Graduate).
These classes go into Box #15 on the form. The dates and cost
estimates are above. Track A is the West Point Foundry project
in New York. You may enroll in whatever number of credit hours
your institution requires. For example, some universities
require their students to complete 4 credit hours of field school
training. You should enroll for the number of credits appropriate
to your home department or university's requirements.
You might need to take
the form to your university's registrar and they will certify your
application and forward the form to MTU's admissions office.
You should ask your registrar. They will probably ask you
to include a $30 application fee. MTU's admissions office
will stamp the form and send it along to our Student Records and
Administration office. Direct questions about registering
to:
Michigan Technological
University
Office of Student Records and Registration
1400 Townsend Dr, Houghton, Michigan 49931-1295
Email: stuosrr@mtu.edu
Phone: (906) 487-2319
Fax: (906) 487-3343
Someone from MTU will
let us know you are registered, but if we have your application
form but your name does not appear on our registration lists, we'll
know there's a problem.
International Students:
International students
could participate on a tourist visa, since the class only lasts
six weeks. Send us a completed application,
by email or fax would be best (906-487-2468). You should contact
your home university's international studies coordinator or Elizabeth
Murrell at MTU's International Programs and Services department:
http://www.ips.mtu.edu/Office_Info/index.htm
Michigan Tech has a number of international
cooperative and exchange agreements that can facilitate guest students
from around the world. We encourage prospective field school
students to contact the IPS office for advice.
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