The Man Camp Research Team
Scholars from multiple disciplines and multiple institutions collaborate in the research initiative known as the North Dakota Man Camp Project. The aim is to generate questions and insights about man camp life and its meaning in regional life, while documenting details of human adaptation in man camp situations. Team members combine their talents, share the credit for what is accomplished, and enjoy the experience of collaborative inquiry.
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| Bret Weber | Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of North Dakota. PhD in History, University of Utah. Weber's particular interest is housing, as history and as a matter of policy. Of the man camp research initiative, he says, “In one way it all either directly or indirectly comes back to housing.” Weber is collecting interviews with man camp residents about their housing histories. |
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| Bill Caraher | Associate Professor of History, University of North Dakota. His principal research interest is the archeology of the Mediterranean region, including co-direction of the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project in Cyprus. He holds a PhD in History from Ohio State University and is a member of the North Dakota Humanities Council. Read Bill's blog, The Archeology of the Mediterranean World. |
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| Richard Rothaus | Richard Rothaus has a day job as Director of Academic Programs and Research for the North Dakota University System. Prior to going to work for the NDUS he operated a highy successful cultural resource management firm, Trefoil Cultural and Environmental. He has done applied archeology all over the northern plains and documented historic tsunami events in the Middle East. He holds a PhD in History from Ohio State University. Read Richard's blog, The Whitewashed Tomb. |
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| Kostis Kourelis | Assistant Professor of Art History, Franklin and Marshall College. An architectural historian specializing in archaeology, historic preservation, and architectural theory. He holds a PhD in Art and Archaeology of the Mediterreanean World, University of Pennsylvania. Read Kostis's blog, Objects-Buildings-Situations |
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| Aaron Barth | Project Manager for the Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation, member of the North Dakota Humanities Council, and PhD candidate in History at North Dakota State University, writing a dissertation on the historical memory of the Dakota War. He also has significant experience in applied history and archeology in the field of cultural resource management. Read Aaron's blog, The Edge of the Village. |
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| John Holmgren | Assistant Professor of Art, Franklin and Marshall College. A photographer, he commonly exhibits his images in mixed-media format in order to, as he says, "investigate how personal history and memory are tied to place, how time informs memory, and how visual representation can be used to communicate experience." Holmgren's work figures prominently in Bakken Boom! Artists Respond to the North Dakota Oil Rush, exhibit running at the Plains Art Museum, 29 July to 15 August 2015. |
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In 2012 the University of North Dakota made note of its researchers initiating the North Dakota Man Camp Project in this newsletter. Oil Patch Dispatch subsequently filed this early report on the activities of the man camp researchers. Emily Guerin recently brought focused journalistic attention to the man camp scholars by posting this feature article for Inside Energy.
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