Brooke Batterson
My name is Brooke Batterson and I am a first year masters student in the Industrial Heritage & Archaeology program at Michigan Technological University. My current research interests integrate historic architecture, Francophone migration, and social mobility, and labor history in the Keweenaw Peninsula. I have spent the last two years researching for the Francophone Migration Project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). My interest in labor history is supported by time spent cataloging artifacts in the archaeology lab on campus and participating in Michigan Tech’s summer 2021 archaeological field school. My experience with historic architecture, funded by the Vernacular Architecture Forum, includes documenting historic structures and modeling these structures, and conducting ethnographic and archival research.