Crew

 

Gordon P. Watts, Jr. (Ph.D., St. Andrews) 
A faculty member at East Carolina University since 1981, Watts' primary interests include nautical archaeology and ship construction. He has extensive field experience on early ships of discovery, investigated the USS Monitor and CSS Alabama, and has conducted a systematic shipwreck survey of Bermudan waters since 1981.  He is a former director of the Underwater Archaeology Unit of the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. His experience with North Carolina maritime history is extensive. Watts teaches nautical archaeology methods, ship construction, and the Bermuda Fall Research Semester.

 

 

Tane Casserley is an M.A. candidate in the Program in Maritime Studies at ECU.  Tane received his B.A. and a Graduate Certificate in Maritime Archaeology and History from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His specialty is deep water archaeology and participated on the latest research expedition to the USS Monitor.   He is currently researching the USS Schurz, a World War I era cruiser that sank off the coast of North Carolina in 1918 for his thesis.  The wreck lies in 115 feet of water 30 miles off the North Carolina coast.

 

 

 

Russ Green is a masters degree candidate in the Program in Maritime Studies at ECU.  Russ received his B.A. in History from the University of Rhode Island and conducted graduate work at Trinity College in Connecticut.  He is currently researching a Revolutionary War vessel lost in Devereaux Cove on the Penobscot River in Maine.

 

 

 

Stephen Hammack is an M.A. candidate in the Program in Maritime Studies at ECU.  He is a native of Macon, Georgia, and graduated in 1993 from New York University with a B.A. in Literature, Languages, and Cultural History.  He attended Jamestown Rediscovery field school in 1998, and then worked in Cultural Resources Management.  Stephen is currently researching the Scots-Irish emigrations to Colonial North America for his thesis.

 

 

 

 

 

Mike Hughes is a masters degree candidate in the Program in Maritime Studies at ECU.  He received his B.A. in Anthropology from Rhode Island College.  Mike worked in Cecil County, Maryland, where he conducted a remote sensing survey on the Elk River in Maryland.  This research is part of his thesis on the British incursions into northern Maryland during the War of 1812.

 

 

 

Kim Williams is a masters degree candidate in the Program in Maritime Studies at ECU.  Kim received her B.A. in Anthropology from Georgia State University, and is currently completing her thesis on the history of Alexandria harbor in Egypt.  Kim has spent the previous two summers conducting research in Egypt.

 

Bermuda Maritime Museum interns Sofia Persson of Sweden and Canadian Maggie Pudden.