Fall Field School 2023: Antigua
Excavation The Program in Maritime Studies held its fall semester 2023 field school in English Harbour, Antigua. Working in partnership with the Antigua & Barbuda National Parks Authority (NPA) and...
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Summer Field School 2022: Mallows Bay
The Maritime Studies 2022 summer field school took place in the Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary, located in Nanjemoy, Maryland. Led by Dr. Nathan Richards and Dr. Jason Raupp,...
Fall Field School 2021: Castle Island
Castle Island The focus for the 2021 fall field school related to the history of Castle Island, located in the Pamlico River just off the historic waterfront in Washington, North...
Summer Field School 2021: Cape Lookout
The Program in Maritime Studies held its summer 2021 field school at Cape Lookout (Core Banks) and on Shackleford Banks on the North Carolina Outer Banks. The goals of the field school...
Fall Field School 2020: Short St. Schooner Wreck
Amidst a global pandemic (COVID-19), faculty, staff and graduate students from East Carolina University's (ECU) Program in Maritime Studies investigated a shipwreck near the site of the old Eureka Lumber...
Community and Indigenous Archaeology
Dr. Jennifer McKinnon directs/co-directs projects related to Indigenous heritage in the Pacific and Australia including a seascape study of Saipan, a community consensus and protection program for caves on private property in...
Maritime Heritage at Risk
Dr. Lynn Harris has an ongoing “Maritime Heritage at Risk” project funded since 2016 by a National Park Service Preservation Training and Technology (PTT) Grant. The project provides student training...
WWII Research in the Pacific and Beyond
Students are involved in a number of WWII-related historical and archaeological research projects led by Dr. McKinnon alongside her colleagues and community partners. She works on projects in Europe and...
Princeville Community Collaborative Project
Dr. Lynn Harris, in collaboration with Dr. Susan Pierce (ECU Sociology), are working on a Grassroots Community Project that is a collaboration between East Carolina University (specifically, departments of Sociology...
Pappy’s Lane Shipwreck Project
With support from the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), graduate students from East Carolina University’s Program in Maritime Studies (ECU) in partnership with the Coastal Studies Institute (CSI), investigated...