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Lawrence E. Babits (Ph.D., Brown)
Director and Professor. Babits has extensive experience in military and plantation archaeology and is a specialist in maritime material culture and military history. His publications include numerous site reports including the Archaeological Survey of the Western Shore of the Pungo River from Wades Point to Woodstock Point (1995). He is the author of A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens (1998), Maritime Archaeology: A Reader of Substantive and Theoretical Contributions (1998), Cowpens Battlefield - A Walking Guide (1993), and articles in Documentary Archaeology in the New World, Archaeology, and the Maryland Historical Magazine. He is the co-editor of Underwater Archaeology 1998 with Ryan Harris and Cathy Fach. He has received a number of grants including the Julianton Plantation Matching Grants (1989-1992) and Survey and Planning Grants from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources (1993, 1994). He was the McCann-Taggert Lecturer for the American Institute of Archaeology in 1995. Babits teaches classes in method and theory of nautical archaeology, material culture studies, small boat documentation, and field schools. Email: babitsl@ecu.edu Monographs and Books 2009 Fields of Conflict: Battlefield Archaeology from the Roman Empire to the Korean War. Potomac Books, Washington, D.C.(co-edited with Douglas Scott and Charles Haeker). 2008 Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC (co-authored with Joshua B. Howard). 2006 Fields of Conflict: Battlefield Archaeology from the Roman Empire to the Korean War. Praeger Security International, Westport, CT (co-edited with Scott Douglas and Charles Haeker). 2004 "Fortitude and Forbearance" The North Carolina Continental Line in the Revolutionary War 1775-1783. Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Raleigh, NC (co-authored with Joshua Howard). 2002 Southern Campaigns. Eastern National, Philadelphia, PA. 1998 A Devil of a Whipping - The Battle of Cowpens. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. 1998 Maritime Archaeology - A Guide to Theoretical and Substantive Contributions . Plenum Press, New York, NY (co-edited with Hans Van Tilburg). 1998 Underwater Archaeology 1998. Society for Historical Archaeology, Tucson, AZ (co-edited with Catherine Fach and Ryan Harris). Book Chapters 2006 Pirate Imagery. In X Marks the Spot, Charles Ewen and Russell Skrownek, editors. University Press of Florida, Gainesville (with Matthew Brenckle and Joshua Howard). 2001 Maritime Archaeology in North Carolina. In The International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology , Carol V. Ruppe and Janet F. Barstad, editors. Plenum Press, New York, NY. Journals 2004 Reproducing a Periauger. Sea History Winter, No.109:15-17. 2001 Pirates. Tributaries 11:7-13. 2001 "Book Archaeology" of the Cowpens Battlefield. In Fields of Conflict: Progress and Prospect in Battlefield Archaeology, British Archaeological Reports International Series 958:117-126, P. W. M. Freeman and A. Pollard, editors. Archaeopress, Oxford, UK. 2000 A 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 (with Annalies Corbin). 1999 1785 Common Sailors' Clothing and a Ship's Camboose from the General Carleton of Whitby in Underwater Archeology 1998, pp. 61-66, Society for Historical Archaeology, Tucson, Arizona. (Co-Authored with Waldemar Ossowski, Museum Morskie, Gdansk, Poland). 1998 Rapport de Fouilles Relatif aux Vestiges Francais de la Guerre de l'Independence Americaine Trouves a Savannah, Georgie, Aux Etats-Unis. Carnet de la Sabretache 135:15-16, 29-30 (with Thomas Babits). 1997 Reconstructing the 1740 Scoutboat Savannah. Transactions 3:14-22 (with Deirdre O'Regan). 1997 Locating the Small Boat in the Archaeological Record: A Model from the North Carolina Sounds. Transactions 3:34-45 (with Annalies C. Kjorness). 1996 A Working Definition of "Periauger." Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology. Society for Historical Archaeology, Tucson. pp. 22-28. 1995 Rubber Poncho and Blankets from the Union Transport Maple Leaf. Military Collector and Historian XLVII (2):60-68. 1995 Bullets from the Maple Leaf. Military Collector and Historian XLVII (3):119-126. 1995 Supplying the Southern Army, March 1780-September 1781. Military Collector and Historian XLVII (4): 163-171. 1994 Exploring a Civil War Sidewheeler. Archaeology 47(5):48-50. 1994 Table of Organization: The American Main Line at Cowpens, 17 January 1781. Military Collector and Historian 46 (4) 158-162. |
For more information contact Program in Maritime Studies 302 E. 9th Street East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858 Phone: 252-328-6097 Email: underwoodk@ecu.edu |
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