Larry D. Lankton
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- Email: ldlankto@mtu.edu
- Department: Social Sciences
- Office Location: 209A Academic Offices
- Office Phone: (906) 487-2113
- Job Title: Professor
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Larry Lankton has been at Michigan
Tech since 1981. He received his Ph. D.
in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to
locating on the Keweenaw, he served as a curator at the Henry
Ford Museum
in Dearborn, Michigan, and as an historian of technology for the
Historic
American Engineering Record in Washington, D. C. At MTU he currently
teaches Modern American History, An Introduction to Material Culture,
The
Automobile in America, The Copper Country, and a seminar for first-year
students.
Lankton is primarily interested in 19th century American industrialization
and the social history of industrial communities. He particularly
focuses
on the history of the copper mining industry that once thrived
on the
Keweenaw Peninsula. He has authored three books and several journal
articles on the history of the Lake Superior copper district.
His research
has been supported by fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution,
the
Hagley Museum and Library, and the Dibner Institute at MIT. Lankton
is a
past president of the Society for Industrial Archeology.