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Robert Walker, Ph.D.
Interim President: Nov 2010 - Mar 2011
Dr. Robert L. Walker “Bob” served as Interim INA President effective November 1, 2010 until March 1, 2011. Bob had served as an active member of the INA Board for approximately 25 years and continues to be heavily involved in raising money for endowed chairs, professorship and special projects for INA. Read more.
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James P. Delgado, Ph.D.
2008-2010; Executive Director from 2006
James "Jim" Delgado joined INA in 2006 after a 15-year career as Executive Director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum (British Columbia) and in April, 2008, the INA Board of Directors elected him President. In October 2010, Dr. Delgado joined the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration as Director of Maritime Heritage. Read more.
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Donny L. Hamilton, Ph.D.
2003-07
Part of the original terms of affiliation that brought INA to Texas A&M University was the university’s promise of establishing a graduate program in nautical archaeology, with George Bass, J. Richard Steffy, and Frederick van Doorninck as the original faculty, with the additional promise of a fourth member, specializing in New World archaeology. Their easy choice was Donny L. Hamilton. Read more.
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Jerome L. Hall, Ph.D.
2000-02
Jerome Lynn Hall is a nautical archaeologist who received his doctorate in anthropology (specialty in nautical archaeology) at Texas A&M University. Before coming to USD, he was the underwater archaeologist for Puerto Rico and President of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. Read more.
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Frederick M. Hocker, Ph.D.
1994-1996
Since 2003 Dr. Hocker has been the Director of Research at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, where he is responsible for the comprehensive publication of Vasa. His research interests focus on shipbuilding and maritime economics in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Read more.
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Robert K. (Chip) Vincent, Jr. (1945-2007)
INA President: 1989-1994
For the final 15 years of his life, Chip Vincent was project director and cultural heritage manager for the American Research Center. He raised and administered funds to preserve antiquities in Egypt, promoting more than 50 different projects encompassing everything from pre-pharonic monuments to 18th-century Cairo neighborhoods. Read more.
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Donald Frey
1982-1988
During Donald Frey's tenure as President, INA acquired the land and constructed the first building for its Bodrum Research Center. Both before and after this role, his contributions to the Institute have been many: from directing annual surveys to located many of the 200 ancient shipwrecks in INA files to becoming INA's principal photographer & videographer. Read more.
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George F. Bass, Ph.D.
1973-1982, 1996-2000
INA Founder, George Bass formed the American Institute of Nautical Archaeology in 1972. He led AINA's first field project on the Turkish coastal at a place called Sheytan Deresi but when war broke out in 1974 on Cyprus, then AINA's base, the new institute was forced it to seek another home. This would be found at Texas A&M University, with which it affiliated in 1976. Dr. Bass would then head Texas A&M's new graduate program in nautical archaeology, until 1993 Read more.
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