Alexandrea Penn

Alexandrea Penn

Allie Penn is a Ph.D. student in the history department at Wayne State University. She currently works as an archivist for a Michigan based company. Her research interests include labor history and 20th century U.S. history with a focus on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the labor of women in various professions. She has completed internships with a number of organizations including CNN, Carhartt, the Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Public Library and the Atlanta Public Library's Special Collections department. She co-hosts a podcast about lifelong learning called Students Teaching Students.

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

• Labor history

• Public history

• Women's history

Research

• Mapping Detroit's Black-Owned Businesses
• Project Coordinator, Pandemic Perspectives Project
• Paternalism in the Michigan Iron Ranges

Education

• M.A., Wayne State University, 2019
• M.L.I.S., Wayne State University, 2019
• Certificate in Archival Administration, Wayne State University, 2019
• B.S., Northern Michigan University, 2016

Awards and grants

• Mining History Association Research Grant, 2020

• Michael D. Patterson Memorial Award, 2020

• Jeffrey L. Reider & Charles F. Otis Endowed Scholarship, 2018
   

Selected publications

• Penn, Allie. "Hardworking Horsepower: The Carhartt Auto." https://www.carhartt.com/content/history-auto?icid=carhartthistory-content-auto-content-201902-allvisitors-discovercarhartthistory
• Penn, Allie. "Female Agitators: The Women of the 1913-1914 Keweenaw Copper Strike." Upper Country: A Journal of the Lake Superior Region, 6 (2018)
• Penn, Allie. "No News Is Good News: Newspaper Reports of Calumet’s Italian Hall Disaster." Upper Country: A Journal of the Lake Superior Region, 4 (2016)