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Carol MacLennan

Carol A. MacLennan

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1979

Department of Social Sciences
Office Location: 217 Academic Offices
Office Phone: 906.487.2870
FAX: 906.487.2468
Email: camac@mtu.edu

On Leave 2007-08

Curriculum Vitae
PDF Format - updated 12/17/2007

Carol MacLennan, an anthropologist, studies the industrialization of mining and sugar plantation communities and their environmental consequences for landscape and people. She is currently focused on completion of a book manuscript Sovereign Sugar: Industrialization of the Hawaiian Landscape, 1840-1930, the result of several years of research on the sugar industry and environment in Hawai`i. She also conducts historical and ethnographic research on early capitalist development and environmental change in North America; mining communities in New Mexico and the Lake Superior basin; and the evolution of mining policy in the US, Canada, and Mexico.

Carol teaches graduate seminars in the Environmental Policy, Industrial Archaeology, and Industrial Heritage programs. For the undergraduate anthropology program she teaches environmental anthropology, ethnographic methods, histories and cultures of the Pacific, and the culture of science and technology.