Program Director

Dr. Michael Broadway is the interim director of the NMU Honors Program.

Dr. Broadway came to NMU in 1997 to become the head of NMU's geography department and has served on the Honors Board since the program’s inception in the late 1990s. In 2008 he was appointed interim director of Northern’s Honors program and associate dean of the College  of Arts and Sciences.

“I took on this position because I feel strongly that the NMU Honors Program can enhance the collegiate experience for students who want to be challenged academically” he said.

Broadway has received research grants from the Canadian and Québec governments, the Ford Foundation, the Aspen Institute and various universities. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters as well as the co-editor of Any Way You Cut It: Meatprocessing and the Transformation of Rural America published by Kansas University Press. He co-authored Slaughterhouse Blues: the Meat and Poultry Industry in North America with Donald Stull, professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas, published by Wadsworth Press in 2004. In 2006 he was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Research Chair award to the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Dr. Broadway has a bachelor’s degree from Nottingham (England) University, a master’s from London University and a doctorate from the University of Illinois.

His teaching and research interests focus on social geography and in particular the role of the meat industry in transforming rural North America. Outside the classroom his interests focus on Liverpool Football Club, reading mystery novels and travel.