| Scott M. Whitesides is a
second year graduate student at East
Carolina University. He is originally from
Utah, where he received a B.A. in
anthropology with an emphasis on
hunter-gatherer societies. Scott is also a
journeyman shipwright who spent the three
years prior to entering graduate school
working on several historic vessels in the
Seattle area. His research interests include
early watercraft, maritime hunter-gatherers,
Great Lakes trade, and behavioral maritime
use patterns. |
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| Heather Cain is a first
year graduate student at East Carolina
University. She is originally from
Cincinnati and has a B.A. in anthropology
from the University of Nevada Las Vegas,
which focused on Neolithic settlements of
the Middle East. She worked as an
archaeologist for a cultural resource
management company in Las Vegas for the two
years prior to entering graduate school,
emphasizing historic sites of early settlers
and hunter-gatherers of the Great Basin
region. |
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| Marc Porter is a second
year graduate student at East Carolina
University. He has a B.A. in history from
St. Mary’s in Maryland, and he is a
licensed ship captain. He spent much of the
last spring semester working on the RV Perkins,
which is the newly acquired research vessel
of the program in Maritime Studies at ECU.
This past summer he spent time in Maryland
and North Carolina working on the thesis
projects of his fellow students. |
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| MJ Harris is a second
year graduate student at East Carolina
University. She is originally from Oregon
and received a B.A. in Anthropology from the
University of Virginia. This past summer she
was conducting thesis research in
Yellowstone Park, where she worked with the
park service and an innovative educational
program. |
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| Jeff Gray is Wisconsin’s
state underwater archaeologist and has
worked as an underwater archaeologist for
the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
since 1996. Gray has a B.A in archaeology
from Beloit College and an M.A. from ECU’s
Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology
Program. He has worked on underwater sites
in the Great Lakes, North Carolina, Florida,
and the Dominican Republic. Gray is
originally from Livonia, Michigan. |
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| Bradley Rodgers,
assistant professor at East Carolina
University, specializes in nautical
archaeology and conservation sciences. He
has won several conservation contracts to
preserve artifacts including American
Revolutionary War material from the Yorktown
Shipwreck Archaeological Project, material
from the airship Macon, gun ports from a
French and Indian War vessel lost in Lake
George, N.Y., and artifacts from the Maple
Leaf for the State of Florida. His
publications include "Guardian of
the Great Lakes: The U.S. Paddle Frigate
Michigan" (1996) and articles on
conservation and archaeology in
International Journal of Nautical
Archaeology, Historical Archaeology,
Michigan History, and The American Neptune.
Rodgers teaches conservation, maritime
history, and underwater archaeology field
schools. |
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