
Sarah F Scarlett
I am a social historian who privileges architecture, landscapes, objects, and artworks in my research, public interpretation, and teaching strategies. My recent book Company Suburbs: Architecture, Power, and The Transformation of Michigan's Mining Frontier (Univ of Tennessee Press 2021) investigates space, materiality, and mobility in domestic landscapes to explore complex social identities in America between 1875 and 1920. I focus on Michigan’s Copper Country as a case study for using overlapping social landscapes as a framework for place-based examinations of class and gender identities. By documenting well-preserved late nineteenth-century patternbook houses, and contextualizing their suburban neighborhoods in a modernizing industrial community, my work implicates buildings and landscapes in the development of relational class identities and acts of resistance. Another area of my research examines the roles of digital spatial tools in community-engaged heritage projects. I co-direct the NEH-sponsored historical GIS of the Copper Country called the Keweenaw Time Traveler, which asks “Citizen Historians” to contribute their own knowledge about landscape change over time and to help process additional historical data. In my undergrad courses, students add their research with primary documents and material evidence to this growing "deep map" to learn place-based digital storytelling. These projects are demonstrating the value – both pedagogical and scholarly – of combining mobile-enabled HGIS projects with techniques in community-engaged scholarship to create active learning opportunities.
Sessions auxquelles Sarah F Scarlett participe
- Company suburbs: how pastoral ideals and real estate investment extended corporate hierarchies into neighborhoods that continue to define North American Cities UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- Présentateur.rice Sarah F Scarlett (Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program) |
- 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | 20 minutes Partie de: Les villes de compagnie du XXe siècle et l'urbanisme, de la création à la conservation
- The influence of twentieth-century industrial companies on city and town planning can be traced beyond the creation of isolated company towns an...
- Paper
- Big-data geospatial heritage infrastructures and industrial heritage
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R910 (access from the metro floor)
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- The use of industrial heritage is a profoundly important factor in the process of creating a sustainable economic, social, and political future ...
- Workshop
Sessions auxquelles Sarah F Scarlett assiste
- Experts roundtable: the future of industrial heritage UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 heure
- Roundtable
- Planning Instruments for Industrial Heritage Reuse and Regeneration through Citizen Engagement UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- This session presents case studies and policy reviews that contribute to ongoing debate and international dialogue on the role of planning syste...
- Regular session
- Industrial heritages to discover: current research II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Regular session
- Le patrimoine industriel et la photographie UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1570
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Patrimoine industriel et photographie entretiennent des relations étroites. La photographie constitue une source de l’archéologie industrielle. ...
- Regular session
- Critical approaches: social power, sustainability and decolonizing industrial heritage III UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1520
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Drawing on case studies from diverse social, cultural, and political contexts the papers in this session discuss...
- Regular session