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Lawrence Babits

Frank Cantelas


Annalies Corbin


Wade Dudley

Michael Palmer


Nathan Richards

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Carl Swanson

Annalies Corbin (Ph.D., Idaho)


Assistant Professor. Dr. Corbin specializes in nautical archaeology, material culture, and is a specialist in inland river transportation and immigration. She has directed numerous field schools across the U.S. Most recent field schools were conducted in Yellowstone National Park, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. She is the author of The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers: Archaeological Evidence from the Missouri River (2000), several chapters in edited works, and articles in Historical Archaeology, IJNA, Discovering Archaeology, and Underwater Archaeology. She is the recipient of numerous state, federal and private grants. She is a board member of the Journal of Northwest Anthropology (JONA), the Advisory Council of Underwater Archaeology (ACUA), is book review editor for Historical Archaeology, and is Executive Director of the P.A.S.T. Foundation. Dr. Corbin teaches classes in research/field methods of nautical archaeology, material cultural resources, material culture, conservation and field schools. 

Email: corbina@mail.ecu.edu

Monographs and Books

2008 Leviathan of the Plains: History, Excavation, and Architecture of the Steamboat Montana. University Press of Florida, Gainesville (With Bradley A. Rodgers).

2006 The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud or How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX.

2000 The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers: Archaeological Evidence from the Missouri River, Underwater Archaeology Series. Kluwer/Plenum Press, New York, NY.  

Journals

2006 Steamboat Montana – Leviathan of the American Plains. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, in review (With Bradley A. Rodgers).

2005 The PAST Foundation: Using Archaeology to Instruct. ENC Focus, http://www.enc.org/features/focus/archive/past/ ) (With Sheli O. Smith).

2003 A Mudbox filled with stone: the Scow Schooner Dan Hayes. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 32(2): 220-231 (With Bradley A. Rodgers).

2002 Burrough’s Site (0007EDS), Edenton, North Carolina, USA: Preliminary Site Analysis of a Suspected Eighteenth Century Shipwreck. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 31(2): 228-236 (With Bradley A. Rodgers).

2001 Shipwrecked on the Prairie: Steamboats in the American West. Discovering Archaeology, February (2001): 40-41.

2001 A New Whistle on the Wind: Steamboats on the Missouri River. Indians & Traders: Entrepreneurs of the Upper Missouri, Fur Trade Symposium 2000 Proceedings (pp. 113-119), Williston, North Dakota.

2001 Derelict Small Boat Survey Pamlico Drainage, North Carolina, USA. Down the River to the Sea, 8 th International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Gdansk, Poland, 1997 (With L.E. Babits).

1998 Shifting Sand and Muddy Water: Historic Cartography and River Migration as Factors in Locating Steamboat Wrecks on the Far Upper Missouri River. Historical Archaeology, 32(4): 86-94.

1997 Steamboats in Montana: Wrecks of the Far Upper Missouri-Yellowstone Drainage Area, phase I. Underwater Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, 1(1): 61-68 (With Kenneth W. Karsmizki).

1997 Locating Small Boats in the Archaeological Record: A Model from the North Carolina Sounds. Transactions 3:34-45 (with L.E. Babits).

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