Email: jmheyman@mtu.edu
Department: Social Sciences
Office Location: 220 Academic Offices
Office Phone: (906) 487-2116
Job Title: Associate Professor
Josiah McC. Heyman is associate professor of anthropology. In the
Industrial Archaeology program, he teaches and works with students on two
topics: industrial communities of past and present, and labor process (the
organization, activities, and experiences of working). He also contributes
in the areas of housing, residential patterns, and consumer goods/material
culture. His general research interests are industrial working classes,
immigration, the U.S.-Mexico border, and anthropology's contribution to
public policy. He has a Ph.D. in social-cultural anthropology from City
University of New York, where he studied with Eric R. Wolf. Among his
major publications are the books Life and Labor on the Border: Working
People of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico, 1886-1986 (University of Arizona
Press, 1991); Finding a Moral Heart for U.S. Immigration Policy (American
Anthropological Association, 1998); and as editor, States and Illegal
Practices (Berg Publishers, 1999). He has also published articles in
American Ethnologist (1990), Current Anthropology (1995), Journal of the
Royal Anthropological Institute (1997), Human Organization (1994), Regional
Studies (1999), Research in Economic Anthropology (1994), Journal of
Political Ecology (1994), etc.
