INA’s research associates and affiliated faculty hail from all over the world.
They include senior scholars and associated faculty from other universities as well as emerging scholars – graduate students–mostly drawn from the ranks of the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University. This diverse, multi-disciplinary and highly specialized group of people continue to further our collective goals–to bring history alive through the scientific means of surveying, excavating, conserving and, where able, preserving shipwrecks. We applaud them and thank all for their contributions to INA and to nautical archaeology.
Appointments of INA Research Associates are reviewed by the archaeological committee every 2 years.
Barto Arnold, Principal Investigator and Project Director Austin, Texas is a native of San Antonio and studied anthropology and archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin. Read More
Originally from Poland, Piotr Bojakowski has been an INA Research Associate and Nautical Archaeology doctoral student at Texas A&M University for over three years. He specializes in early modern and Atlantic underwater archaeology and shipbuilding, hull reconstruction, maritime history, and preservation of artifacts recovered from underwater sites. Read More
Lilia Campana is a Ph.D. student in the Nautical Archaeology Program of the Anthropology Department at Texas A&M University. She received her M.A. from Texas A&M University’s Nautical Program and her B.A. in Archaeology, History, and Classics from the Libera Università degli Studi in Urbino (Italy). Since joining the Nautical Archaeology Program in 2006, she has worked with Dr. Filipe Castro as a research assistant in the J. Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory, and since 2009 has been assisting Dr. Cemal Pulak with various research projects in the Old World Laboratory. Read More
Chris Cartellone earned a B.S. from Iowa State University in History in 1999 and an M.A. from East Carolina University in Maritime Studies in 2003. After graduating Chris spent 2004 serving a tour with a U.S. Army mortar platoon in Iraq. Upon returning to the United States, Chris spent the next few years participating and directing all phases of archaeological investigations primarily on terrestrial sites throughout the Midwestern United States for various private CRM firms and in Nevis, West Indies. Read More
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Katie received her doctorate through the Nautical Archaeology Program specializing in early modern Atlantic seafaring and shipbuilding traditions. She and fellow research associate, Piotr Bojakowski, are co-directors of the Western Ledge Reef Wreck Project, and the Warwick Project. Read More
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Dr. Fabio Esteban Amador is the program officer for the NGS/Waitt Grants Program at National Geographic and an associate research professor of anthropology at George Washington University. He is an archaeologist specializing in Mesoamerican cultures and Pre-Columbian and historic earthen architectural conservation. Read More
Jeremy Green was instrumental in the initiation of the field of maritime archaeology in Australia. Following his pioneering excavations on the Dutch wreck Batavia in the early 1970s, he established the Department of Maritime Archaeology at the Western Australian Museum and has helped lead the department since that time. Read More
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Heather Hatch is pursuing her PhD at Texas A&M University, focusing her research on the nature of maritime communities as expressed through their material culture. Read More
Kenzo Hayashida, M.A., is Director of the Asian Research Institute of Underwater Archaeology (ARIUA), which he founded as the Kyushu Okinawa Society for Underwater Archaeology (KOSUWA). Read More
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Akifumi Iwabuchi is Professor of Marine Culturology at the Tokyo University of Marine Science & Technology in Japan, where he has been teaching Maritime Anthropology and Underwater Archaeology since 1994. Dr. Iwabuchi received his doctorate in Social Anthropology from Oxford University (1990). Read More
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Jun Kimura is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, working as part of a team on the Australia Research Council Linkage project: Southeast Asia's global economy, climate and the impact of natural hazards from the 10th to 21st centuries. Read More
Currently a Ph.D. candidate in Mediterranean archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, Justin holds a B.A. Classics from Loyola University, Chicago, where he studied Greek, Latin and History, as well as an M.A. in Anthropology and Nautical Archaeology from Texas A&M University. Read More
Since 1980, Dr. Margaret Leshikar-Denton has worked with INA in the Caribbean, Mexico, the United States, Spain, and Turkey. She focuses on Caribbean seafaring, ships, and shipwrecks, including the 1794 loss of HMS Convert and is currently Museum Director of the Cayman Islands National Museum. Read More
Berta Lledó is a Spanish archaeologist specializing in Islamic glass. She started collaborating with INA in 1993 when George Bass asked for volunteers worldwide to help with the study of the Serçe Limanı glass collection. Read More
Colin Martin ran the graduate program in Maritime Studies at St Andrews University in Scotland from 1985 until his retirement in 2001. He has directed several shipwreck excavations around the British Isles, specialising in the Spanish Armada and 17th-century warships. He is currently investigating maritime landscapes in western Scotland. Read More
Veronica is currently working on her MA in nautical archaeology at Texas A&M and hopes to pursue a doctorate in Egyptology in the near future. She is now leading the ongoing investigation of a Greco-Roman harbor in the Nile Delta. Read More
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Ralph Pedersen holds a doctorate in Anthropology from the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University. He has been a Research Associate with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology since 1992. Read More
Currently based in Hanoi, Vietnam, Charlotte studies local boatbuilding traditions. An ethnographical investigation on boatbuilding craftsmanship, entrenched in the country’s history and culture, is at the heart of the PhD thesis she is preparing under the auspices of the Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient (EFEO). Read More
In early 1975, INA was able to add both Robin, who had been vice-president Michael Katzev's right-hand man on Cyprus, and Don Frey, who had been president George Bass's right-hand man in Turkey, to its small staff. They became the core of so much of INA's successful history. Read More
Currently Juan is the co-director at the excavation at the Port of Valencia, Cartagena Port, and since 2007, he has been the co-director of the investigations at the site of the Bajo de la Campana, La Manga, (San Javier, Murcia), along with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA). Read More
John C. Pollack is an INA Research Associate and an independent Canadian researcher based in British Columbia. He is a former President of the Underwater Archaeological Society of B.C., a fellow of three scientific exploration organizations, and an affiliate member of the BC Association of Professional Archaeologists. Read More
Mark Polzer is a Prescott Doctoral Candidate in the departments of Archaeology and Classics & Ancient History at the University of Western Australia. His dissertation research is focused on Phoenician maritime trade and colonial commercial activities in Spain and, in particular, the late 7th-century BC Phoenician shipwreck that he excavated at Bajo de la Campana, Spain. Mr. Polzer is an expert in early shipbuilding in the eastern Mediterranean and has focused his studies primarily on Archaic ships and seafaring and their associated socio-economic context. Read More
Kelby Rose is a Ph.D. student in the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University. He received his B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Minnesota. His primary research interest is early modern naval architecture and shipbuilding, particularly in the 17th-century Netherlands. Read More
Don Rosencrantz first became involved in underwater archaeology in 1963 when he joined the University of Pennsylvania team excavating the Byzantine shipwreck at Yassi Ada in 1963. Read More
Jeffrey Royal received his Ph.D. in the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University, and currently serves as the Archaeological Director for RPM Nautical Foundation and Adjunct Professor with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. Read More
Randall Sasaki has conducted several research projects in Japan, including the hull timber analysis from the island of Takashima where the ill-fated fleet of Kublai Khan was crushed by the strong typhoon known as "Kamikaze". Sasaki’s current project includes yet another failed Mongol invasion in Vietnam. Read More
Currently in pursuit of his Ph.D. at Texas A&M University, George is directing an INA project documenting America’s earliest-known steamboat wreck, which sank after catching fire on Lake Champlain in 1819. The recording of Phoenix’s hull remains will take place during the summer of 2009. Read More
Since 2010 Ulrica has been an INA Research Associate with the “Nautical and Naval Foodways Assessment” project, a study carried out in co-operation with students of archaeology at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia and the Swedish student Jaramillo, Rubi. Her PhD thesis is an interdisciplinary study that deals with the diet in the Swedish Navy 1500-1800 where archaeological artefacts and historical accounts are the primary sources. Read More
Kate Worthington studied anthropology/archaeology with interest in cultural resource management as an undergrad at University of Alaska in Anchorage. She is currently pursuing a MA at Texas A&M in Nautical Archaeology. Read More