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Laura Peirson

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Office Address: 2122 Weston Hall
Email: lpeirson@nmu.edu
Last Semester Taught: Spring - 2025

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Northern Michigan University is located on the ancestral homelands of the Anishinaabe Three Fires Confederacy. Gichi-namebini Ziibing is the traditional name of Marquette.