Lynn Harris (Ph.D., University of South Carolina)

Dr. Harris specializes in nautical archaeology, maritime history and is a specialist in public education and heritage tourism in these areas. She has interests in trade and seaports, shipyards and shipbuilding, small craft and riparian communities. Her past research included investigations of the Dutch East India Company in South Africa, a colonial period shipyard in Charleston, and vernacular watercraft in South Carolina. She has developed public education programs and directed underwater archaeology training courses and field schools for the University of South Carolina, the Nautical Archaeology Society and the National Monuments Council in South Africa.

Her research and has appeared in journal articles in the Underwater Archaeology Proceedings of the Society for Historical Archaeology and the Museum Small Craft Association Transactions. She is co-author of a chapter (with Jim Spirek) Maritime Heritage on Display (in Preserving and Interpreting our Maritime Heritage edited by Jim Spirek and Della Scott-Ireton), author of a chapter Underwater Heritage and the Diving Community (in Public Benefits of Archaeology edited by Barbara Little), and a contributor on South African shipwreck information to the Encyclopedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology (edited by James Delgado). Dr. Harris has published numerous reports on public education and underwater archaeology, river surveys and shipwreck sites in South Carolina through the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology Research Series.

Dr. Harris teaches classes in the history and theory of nautical archaeology, research and field methods, maritime material culture, cultural resource management, and Maritime History. She will be assisting with underwater archaeology field schools.

Email: Harrisly@ecu.edu