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Michelle LaBerge

  • Teaching Assistant Dissertator, Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Iron Age Europe
  • Roman Era Europe
  • Early Medieval Europe
  • Experimental archaeology
  • Paleoethnobotany
  • Archaeological and historical plant textiles and dye plants
  • Plant chemistries
  • Sustainable textile and dye practices.
  • Plant lore
  • Alchemical texts
  • Textile craft traditions

Advisor: Bettina Arnold

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.