Instructional Assistant Professor
Worked at TAMU from 2020-present
Bio
Carolyn Kennedy received her BA in Anthropology from Concordia University in Montreal in 2012, and her MA (2015) and PhD (2019) in Anthropology from Texas A&M University, specializing in nautical archaeology. Her research focuses on the development of hull designs and nautical technology of historic ships in northeastern North America as well as documentation and conservation practices of wooden ships. Her archaeological research projects include the Shelburne Shipyard Steamboat Graveyard project (2014-2016), the CityPlace Schooner Project (2018), the Alexandria Historic Shipwreck Project (2019-2020), and the Gaspé Maritime Archaeology Project (2019-present). Carolyn has also participated in projects in the Mediterranean and the Marshall Islands. She is also co-directing the Philadelphia Gunboat Research Initiative (with Dr. Chris Dostal), a project begun in 2024 with the intent of revisiting the famed Battle of Valcour submerged battlefield site in Lake Champlain.
Selected Publications
- C. Kennedy and K. Crisman, “Four 19th-century Steamboats in Shelburne Shipyard, Lake Champlain, Vermont, U.S.A.,” International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (2024), 1-34. DOI: 10.1080/10572414.2024.2366196.
- C. Kennedy and C. Dostal, “Note de recherche. Shipwrecked at Land’s End: The Gaspé Maritime Archaeology Project 2022 Field Season,” Archéologiques 36 (2023), 17-33.
- C. Kennedy, “Traveler Impressions of Lake Champlain Steamboats 1827-1842,” The Northern Mariner, Vol. 32.1 (2022), 21-38.
- C. Dostal, G. Grieco, P. Fix, C. Kennedy, J. Herbst, L. Schultz, and R. Borrero, “The Documentation and Reconstruction of an 18th-Century Wooden Ship from Alexandria, VA.,” Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 16 (2020), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.daach.2020.e00136
- K. Crisman, C. Kennedy, and G. Schwarz, “Vermont’s Steamboat Pioneer: Jahaziel Sherman of Vergennes,” Vermont History 86.2 (2018), 95-131.
Students Supervised
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