Email: pem-194@mtu.edu
Department: Social Sciences
Office Location: 212 Academic Offices
Office Phone: (906) 487-2070
Job Title: Associate Professor
Patrick Martin came to Michigan Tech in the Fall of 1977 and
has managed to maintain his sanity over the succeeding 22 years.
Teaching a variety of courses in archaeology, anthropology, Martin
also carried out a variety of research projects for sponsors such
as the National Park Service, US Forest Service, US Navy, Michigan
Department of Transportation, Michigan Historical Center, and
several local government agencies. During the early years of his
tenure, these research projects were primarily aimed at environmental
assessments connected with Federally-sponsored undertakings, such
as road construction, timber harvest, and land exchanges. Gradually
they turned increasingly to investigations of historic sites under
development and/or reconstruction. For example, survey work at
the Norwich Mine in Ontonagon County preceded the development
of the North Country Hiking Trail through the site, excavation
of a worker's cabin at Fayette set the stage for eventual reconstruction,
and excavation of the Guardhouse and Blacksmith Shop at Fort Wilkins
led to accurate reconstruction of both buildings. Other selected
projects include broad area survey on Isle Royale, survey and
testing at the Bay Furnace site near Munising, and additional
excavations at Fayette and Fort Wilkins. Recent work has focused
on Cultural Landscape studies at two mining sites in the Wrangell
St. Elias National Park in Alaska, and a combination of geophysical
survey and excavation at Estate Whim, a sugar plantation on St.
Croix, US Virgin Islands. In the early 1990s, Martin was instrumental
in establishing the Industrial Archaeology Master's program within
the Department of Social Sciences and served as the first Director
of Graduate Studies, a position now held by David Landon. Beginning
in 1995, Martin assumed the Editorship of IA, the Journal of the
Society for Industrial Archeology, and has since been named the
Executive Secretary of that organization. In this latter role,
he oversees the operation of the SIA Headquarters at MTU, ably
aided by Donald Durfee.
