Instructor: Nathan Richards

Nathan Richards
 Biography: EducationPh.D. in Archaeology, 2002. Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia BA (Hons.) in Archaeology, 1997, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia BA in Philosophy, Visual Arts and Archaeology, 1996, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia

Research InterestsDr. Richards specializes in maritime archaeological theory and method with a particular focus on cultural site formation processes of the archaeological record. He has an interest in comparative and anthropological approaches to maritime archaeological subjects, in particular non-shipwreck sites such as ship graveyards, the archaeology of harbor infrastructure, and maritime terrestrial sites. He has been involved in field schools run by Departments of Archaeology at Flinders University (South Australia), and James Cook University (Queensland), and has been employed in cultural heritage management work by the State Governments of South Australia and Tasmania. His research has appeared in the Bulletin of the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, The Great Circle (the journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History), The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, and Historical Archaeology as well as a number of other journal articles, book chapters, and numerous reports and reviews. He is co-author (with Robyn Hartell) of The Garden Island Ships' Graveyard Maritime Heritage Trail (Government of South Australia, 2001), and author ofShips' Graveyards: Abandoned Watercraft and the Archaeological Formation Process (University Press of Florida, 2008). Dr. Richards is an active member of the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (serving on their editorial board, and their newsletter editor 2001-2006) and the Australian Association for Maritime History. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Historical Archaeology and is a Research Associate for the PAST Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

Richards commenced as the Interim Program Head for CSI's Maritime Heritage Program as of January 1, 2011 after collaborating with the Institute over the last three years during the NOAA-led Battle of the Atlantic Expeditions (2008-present) and a 2010 summer field school in the waters adjacent to Oregon Inlet. He is also holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor with the Program in Maritime Studies (Department of History) at East Carolina University (Greenville, NC) where he has taught classes in the history, theory, method, and ethics of maritime archaeology, field schools, and cultural heritage management since 2003.

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