Students

RECENT AND CURRENT STUDENTS

Dissertation Assignments

Chair (2) 

2013-2018: Barry Bleichner- Is This Ship Covered: An Analysis of the Sunken Military Craft Act

2015-2017: Jennifer Jones -The Management and Archaeological Challenges of Beached Shipwrecks along the South Eastern Seaboard of the USA.

Co-Chair (2)

2013-2017 Sorna Khakzad – Fishing Communities and Cultural Heritage in Brunswick and Hanover County

2015-2019: Omar Fernández López – History of the Underwater Heritage of Costa Rica”,   Universidad de Cádiz, España.

Other (1)

2016-2017: Mentoring a visiting doctoral Fulbright research scholar to ECU, Marcela Bernal, PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology), Major in Archaeology, Bogotá, Colombia. Dissertation: Arqueología en Nuestra Señora Santa María de los Remedios del Cabo de la Vela, un Asentamiento Colonial para la Pesca de Perlas del Siglo XVI.

Member: (1)

2013-2018:  Joyce Steinmetz – Commercial Fishing Hangs And Locating Shipwrecks: A Proof of Concept Study off US Mid-Atlantic Coast

Thesis Assignments

Chair (8)

2014-2018: Adewale Oyediran – Slave Trade in Nigeria: A Maritime Landscape Study.

2015-2018:Alyssa Reisner – A Management Study of Pre-Historic and Pre-Historic Canoes: Technical and Cultural Considerations.

2015-2018:Kelsey Dwyer – Black Female Slaves in the Caribbean: An Archaeological Analysis.

2015-2018: Thomas Lacey – Barges, Battlefields and Ferry Slips: An Interpretation and Analysis of Cultural Site Formation Processes in Rockley Bay, Tobago.

2015-2018: Dylan McCusker – An Investigation of Cuban Refugee Boats in Florida.

2017-2019: Ryan Marr – A Historical and Ethnographic Study of Cultural Change and Continuity in the Use and Construction of Dhows and Outriggers in the Tanga Region, Tanzania

2017-2019: Elise Carroll – Assessing the Management Challenges, Limitations and Contributions of Human Remains on Historic Shipwreck Sites: HL Hunley, USS Monitor, USS Arizona, SS Caribsea, and HMT Bedfordshire

2017-2019: Tyler Ball – Reading between the Iron Lines: An Analysis of Cannon Arrangement on Caribbean Shipwrecks

Member (7)

2016-2017: Kimberley Urban – Blue Beads of the QAR (Anthropology Department)

2016-2017: Andrew Holloway- Brunswick Town: An Archaeological Investigation of Proposed Lot 34 (Anthropology Department)

2016-2017: Olivia Thomas – The Dish Ran Away With the Spoon: Revisiting unprovenienced Food ways Artifacts from the Eighteenth Century Spanish Fleet Shipwrecks

2015-2017: Sonia Valencia – A Historical Analysis of Yellow Fever in Bermuda.

2017-2019: Sara Parkin – Reconstructing Buffalo City (1885-1986): Applying Archaeological Site Reconstruction Techniques to a North Carolina Maritime Entrepot.

2017-2019: Andrianna Dowell – Wreck Site 3 and the National Museum of Bermuda: The Practical Archaeology of Maritime Heritage Trails and Comparative Site Curation.

2017-2019 Connor McBrian – Practical Management: Utilizing Historic Remote Sensing Data to Build Predictive Models of Site Formation in Mallows Bay