Education
1993 PhD Anthropology, Texas A&M University.
Dissertation: Ancient Egyptian Hull Construction
1986 MS Bioarchaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University of London
1984 MA Anthropology, Texas A&M University
1982 BA Anthropology, Texas Tech University

Employment
Florida State University at Tallahassee
2000- Professor of Nautical Archaeology, Dept. of Anthropology

Texas A&M University at Galveston
1998-2000 Assistant Professor of Nautical Archaeology, Dept. of General Academics and Adjunct Graduate Faculty, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University

Institute of Nautical Archaeology
1996-99 Archaeological Director, Institute of Nautical Archaeology - Egypt
1993-96 Co-Director for the Institute of Nautical Archaeology - Egypt
1995-present Adjunct Professor
1992-95 Research Associate
1987-91 Editor, INA Newsletter
1984-present Archaeobotanist for Bronze Age through Ottoman period shipwrecks

Bilkent University
1994-96 Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and the History of Art
1995-96 Editorial Board, Bilkent News (weekly publication of university news)
1995-96 Weekly lectures on Anatolian archaeology to visiting Elderhostel tour groups

Texas A&M University
1991 Graduate assistant, Teaching. ANTH 201: Introduction to Anthropology
1989-90, 1987 Graduate research assistant to George F. Bass
1983-84 Graduate research assistant to J. Richard Steffy

Consulting
1994 Ancient technology television series, NOVA/WGBH (Broadcast Feb. 12, 1997)
1992-present Smithsonian Institution Study Leader for Red Sea and Eastern Mediterranean
1991-present University of Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Abydos, Egyptian boat graves
1988 Carnegie Museum of Natural History, evaluation of Egyptian Dashur boat
1987-88 National Geographic Society, Royal Boat of Khufu
1986-88 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Egyptian Section, evaluation of hull timbers and
a boat model from Lisht

Professional Achievements
1999 Vice President, Houston Chapter Archaeological Institute of America
1999 General Series Editor, Studies in Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University Press

Field Experience
2000 Principal Investigator, Exploring Salalah’s Ancient Harbor, Oman
2000 Co-Principal Investigator, Black Sea Trade Project, Sinop, Turkey
1999 Chief Scientist, Black Sea Trade Project, Sinop, Turkey
1999 Director, Pirogue Documentation Project, Galveston
1995-1998 Director and archaeobotanist, Sadana Island Shipwreck Excavation
1994 Director, INA - Egypt Expedition to the Red Sea
1991 Archaeobotanist, Cornell University excavations at Halai, Greece
1989 Hull documentation of Late Period Egyptian watercraft at Mataria
1988 Metropolitan Museum of Art excavations at pyramids of el-Lisht
1987, 1984 Archaeobotanist, Uluburun Shipwreck excavation
1986 Hull documentation of two Middle Kingdom watercraft in Cairo
1983-85 Ship reconstructor for INA in Bodrum, Turkey

Publications
2000 Sacred and Secular: Ancient Egyptian Ships and Boats (No. 5, New Monographs Series, Archaeological Institute of America)
1998 Sadana Island Shipwreck: Final Season, INA Quarterly 25.3:3-6
1998 Nefertiti’s Secret. Fragrance Forum, Spring, 2-3
1997 Sadana Island Shipwreck Excavation. El Bahri 3.1:1-2
1997 Coffee, coffee, coffee. El Bahri 3.2: 1-2
1997 Dashur Boats in Encyclopedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology, James P. Delgado, ed. Pp. 122-123.
1997 Khufu Ships in Encyclopedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology, James P. Delgado, ed. Pp. 222-223.
1997 An 18th-century Shipwreck in the Red Sea, 23-38 in Daniel Crecelius, Hamza `Abd al-`Aziz Badr, and Muhammad Husam al-Din Isma`il, eds., Dirasat fi Ta'rikh Misr al-Iqtisadi wa al-Ijtima`i fi al-`Asr al-`Uthmani (Studies in the Economic and Social History of Ottoman Egypt) Cairo, Dar al-Afaq al-`Arabi.
1996 Sadana Island Shipwreck Excavation 1996. INA Quarterly 23.3: 3-8
1996 Sadana Island Shipwreck, Egypt: preliminary report, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 25.2: 83-94
1996 Archaeology in the Red Sea, Topoi 6: 853-68
1996 Sadana Island Shipwreck Excavations in 1995, Al-’Usur Al-Wusta 8.1:1-3
1996 Ancient Egyptian hull construction, Tropis IV ed. H. Tzalas, pp. 235-44
1996 El Bahri (INA-Egypt’s newsletter) 2.1
1996 Mataria boat in Encyclopaedia of the Ancient Near East (Oxford UP) Vol. 3: 441.
1995 Sadana Island Shipwreck excavation 1995, INA Quarterly 22.3: 3-9
1995 Batik Hazineler, Rehberce 1.1: 16-17
1995 Egypt’s maritime heritage. Proceedings of the Italian Egyptian Geosciences and Archaeology Conference
1994 El Bahri (INA-Egypt’s newsletter) 1.1, 1.2
1994 INA-Egypt’s Red Sea survey, INA Quarterly 21.3: 4-9.
1994 INA Quarterly 21.4: 10-11
1993 The promise of Egypt’s maritime legacy, INA Quarterly 20.2: 3-7
1993 Direct evidence for organic cargoes in the Late Bronze Age, World Archaeology 24: 348-60
1992 The Lisht timbers, in D. Arnold et al., Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition XXV. The South Cemeteries at Lisht III. The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret I at Lisht, pp. 102-12 and pls. 115-32
1992 A Pharaoh’s fleet: Early Dynastic hulls from Abydos, INA Quarterly 19.2: 12-13
1992 How the sea shaped history, Opsail ‘92 program (Time-Life Publications)
1992 Egyptian boatbuilding: An ancient tradition, World Regions (McMillan) 394-97
1991 Organic goods from the Uluburun wreck, INA Newsletter 18.4: 11
1991 Recovery and analysis of plant remains from some Mediterranean shipwreck sites, in J. Renfrew, ed. New Light on Ancient Farming, pp. 214-23
1990 Shipwrecked plant remains, Biblical Archaeologist 53: 55-60
1990 Egyptian hulls and the evidence for caulking, IJNA 19: 135-37
1990 Herodotus 2.96.1-2 again, with C. Shelmerdine in Classical Quarterly 40: 535-39
1990 The Pharaoh’s boat at The Carnegie¸ 48 pp. with D. Patch
1990 The potential for nautical archaeology in Egypt with D. Haldane in INA Newsletter 17.1: 22-25
1988 Boat timbers from el-Lisht: A new method of ancient Egyptian hull construction, The Mariner’s Mirror 74: 141-52
1988 The Abandoned Shipwreck Act, INA Newsletter 15.2: 9
1988 The Late Bronze Age shipwreck: the fourth excavation campaign, INA Newsletter 15.1: 2-4
1986 The Contribution of Archaeobotanical Analysis to the Understanding of Shipwrecks (unpublished M.S. thesis, University of London)
1985 A fourth Dahshur boat, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 71: 174-75, pl. 18
1984 A fourth boat from Dashur, American Journal of Archaeology 88: 389, pl. 54
1984 The Dashur boats (unpublished M.A. thesis, Texas A&M University)

Reviews
1999 Review of Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Late Bronze Age Levant, IJNA
1998 Review of From Egypt to Mesopotamia, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 27.1
1997 Review of Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant, IJNA 26.2: 175-6
1997 Review of Drie Schepen uit de lat middeleeuwen: Opgravingsverslagen 2, 3, 4 and Vier werschuiten uit de zeventiende eeuw: Opgravingsverslagen 8, 9, 10 en 11 in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 26.3: 272
1997 Review of Caesarea Maritima. A Retrospective after Two Millennia in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 26.3: 263-4
1997 Review of The Earliest Ships: the Evolution of Boats into Ships, IJNA 26.4: 347-9
1996 Review of Egyptian Boats and Materialien zum Schiffbau im Alten Ägypten,
IJNA 25.3/4:291-4
1996 Review of The Sea of Gallilee Boat and Egyptian Boats, AJA 100 (July)
1993 Review, Model Boats from the Tomb of Tut’ankh-amun, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 30: 205-208

In Press
[2000] Proceedings for "Breaking New Ground in Ottoman Archaeology", held April 1996 at SUNY
[2000] Sadana Island Shipwreck excavation: Report No. 2, IJNA
[2000] ‘Ship Reconstruction,’ in B. Arnold, ed., Archaeology Underwater (Plenum)
[2000] Entries for Ancient Egyptian ship construction; Ancient Egyptian seafaring in The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Egypt

International Conferences Where Papers Presented
1999 TROPIS VII (Ship Construction in Antiquity) (Pylos, Greece)
1997 Fort Bovisand Conference on Underwater Archaeology (Plymouth, UK)
1996 American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting (St. Louis, MO)
1996 Breaking New Ground in Ottoman Archaeology (SUNY Binghamton)
1996 Tropis VI International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity (Greece)
1996 Ottoman Egypt, Fulbright Commission (Cairo)
1993 Geosciences and Archaeology in the Mediterranean Countries (Cairo)
1991 Archaeological Institute of America Conference (Chicago)
1991 Tropis IV International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity
1990 Egyptians and Foreigners in Ancient Times, Carnegie Museum of Natural
History Symposium
1989 First Archaeological Congress (Baltimore, MD)
1988 Fifth World Congress on Egyptology (Cairo)
1987 Symposium on Maritime Egypt (Alexandria, Egypt)
1986 Organization for Phyto-Taxonomic Investigation of the Mediterranean Area
1986 Seventh International Work Group on Palaeoethnobotany (Cambridge, UK)

Lecture Venues (Partial List)
1999-2000 National Speaker, Archaeological Institute of America, Danyale English Lecturer
1999 Riches at the End of the Earth. Colloquium sponsored by The College of Humanities and Public Affairs, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Southwest Missouri State University, 22 Nov. 1999
1998-99 National Speaker, Archaeological Institute of America. Reuben and Norma Kershaw Lecturership in Near East Archaeology.
1998 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [April]
1998 National Arts Club, New York [April]
1998 University of California at Los Angeles Lecture Series [May]
1998 Explorers Club, Pasadena CA [May]
1998 University of California at Los Angeles Near Eastern Seminar [May]
1998 So. CA American Research Center in Egypt, Los Angeles
1997 North Texas American Research Center in Egypt, SMU, Dallas, Texas
1997 Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon [March and September]
1997 Ancient Egypt Studies Association, Portland, Oregon
1997 Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1997 Archaeological Institute of America, University of Colorado Museum, Boulder
1997 Pueblo Archaeological and Historical Society, Colorado
1997 University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, Colorado
1997 Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
1997 Sigma Xi Chapter, Colorado Springs, Colorado
1997 Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
1997 LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1997 Archaeological Institute of America, University of Texas, Austin
1997 Denver Museum of Natural History, Colorado
1997 Archaeological Institute of America, University of Colorado [October]
1997 Metropolitan Museum of Art [2 dates in December]
1996 American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo
1996 "Ottoman Period Porcelain in the Red Sea: The Sadana Island Shipwreck," Sept. 30, American Research Institute in Turkey, Istanbul
1995 "Incense, Perfumes, Spices and Packaging: Plant Remains from the Uluburun Shipwreck," April 25. 15th Annual Lecture Series on Archaeology in Turkey (ARIT, Ankara)
1995 Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
1994 Embassy of the United States of America, Cairo, Egypt (3 lectures)
1993 San Antonio Museum of Art
1993 American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo (3 lectures)
1990 Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh

Awards and Fellowships
2000 University of Louisville, C.E.S. Foundation Interdisciplinary Achievement Award. $50,000
1999 National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration, $15,734 for Fifth Millennium Wooden Objects in Salalah’s Ancient Harbor
1998 National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration, $10,000 for The Sadana Island Shipwreck: Final Season
1997-98 Library of Congress Mellon Foreign Area Fellowship: Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean Trade in the 17th and 18th Centuries
1993-98 With D. Haldane, raised $250,000+ in direct and in-kind private and corporate gifts to support development and research for INA - Egypt
1991-92 Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts Technology and Society Dissertation Award
1991 Harriet Pomerance Fellowship in Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology, Archaeological Institute of America
1991 Honorary Fellow, American Research Institute in Turkey
1988 Abell Scholarship in Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University
1986 Gordon Childe and Margary Bequest Grant, Institute of Archaeology London
1984 PAL Fellowship from Texas A&M University and INA
1982 Wm. Curry and Frances M. Holden Award, Outstanding Achievement in Anthropology, Texas Tech University