KATIE BOJAKOWSKI, Ph.D. EDUCATION Texas A&M University 2011 Doctorate Nautical Archaeology Program, Department of Anthropology Dissertation: Exploration and Empire: Iconographic Evidence of Iberian Ships of Discovery. Professional Certificate: Certificate of advanced studies in artefact conservation. Texas A&M University 2004 Master of Arts Nautical Archaeology Program, Department of Anthropology Thesis: Wrought Iron Hand Tools from the Underwater Excavations of Colonial Port Royal, Jamaica. Eastern Washington University 2000 Bachelor of Arts Archaeology and Physical Anthropology Tracks, Department of Anthropology EMPLOYMENT/ PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor Ashford University, Social Science Program 2013 - Present Commissioner Heritage Preservation Commission, Edmonds, Wa. 2014 - Present Executive Director Atlantic World Marine Archaeology Research Institute 2012 - Present Associate Online Faculty Ashford University, Anthropology Program. 2009 2013 Consulting Archaeologist National Museum of Bermuda 2010 2012 Fellowship Marian Cook Graduate Fellow 2007 2008
Graduate Teaching Assistantship Texas A&M University, Anthropology Department. 2004 2007 Graduate Research Assistantship Texas A&M University, Career Services. 2002 2004 Research Assistant Institute of Nautical Archaeology 2001 2002 AWARDS / HONORS Dissertation Award College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University 2008 Portuguese Fellowship Arquivo Nacional de Torre do Tombo 2007 Research Associate Institute of Nautical Archaeology 2002 RESEARCH / TEACHING INTERESTS Nautical Archaeology of the Atlantic World Post- Medieval Seafaring Archaeological Methods and Theory Historical Books and Treatises Ship Construction and Technology Seafaring Life and Culture Historical Archaeology Gender and Archaeology Page 2
RESEARCH GRANTS External Competitive Grants Warwick Project The Rose Marrow Foundation, $10,000 2013, 2014 Warwick Project The Seedling Foundation, $10,000 2012 Warwick Project David Browne and Flagstone Holdings Ltd., $5,000 2012 Warwick Project Global Exploration and Overlanding Society, $10,000 2011, 2012 Warwick Project The Perot Foundation, $30,000 2011, 2012 Warwick Project Center for Marine Archaeology and Conservation, $16,500 2010, 2011 Warwick Project Institute of Nautical Archaeology, $17,000 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 Warwick Project National Geographic Society, $10,000 2010 Dominican Republic Survey Project RPM Nautical Foundation, $30,000 2003-2004 Internal Grants Doctoral Research Glasscock Center for Humanities Research 2005-2006 Doctoral Research Department of Anthropology 2004 2007 NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS Books and Book Chapters Castro, Filipe Viera de Castro and Katie Custer (Editors), 2008, Edge of Empire: Page 3
Proceedings of the Symposium Edge of Empire Held at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology Sacramento CA. Caleidoscópio, Portugal. Custer, Katie, 2008, Exploration and Empire: Iconographic Evidence of Iberian Ships of Discovery in Edge of Empire: Proceedings of the Symposium Edge of Empire Held at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology Sacramento CA edited by Filipe Castro and Katie Custer. Caleidoscópio, Portugal. Refereed Journal Articles Adams, J., P. Bojakowski, K. Custer-Bojakowski, (In Press). The Warwick: a final report on the excavation of the early 17th-century English shipwreck; Castle Harbour, Bermuda Part 1. Bojakowski, P., K. Custer Bojakowski, (In Press). The Warwick: an interim report on the 17th-century English shipwreck in Bermuda. Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History. Bojakowski, P., and Katie Custer Bojakowski, 2013. The Warwick: The Final Season of Excavation. The INA Annual, 2012: 42-49. Bojakowski, P., Katie Custer Bojakowski, 2012, The Warwick: Second excavation season of an early 17 th -century company ship at Bermuda. The INA Annual, 2011: 42-49. Bojakowski, P., and Katie Custer Bojakowski, 2011, The Warwick: survey results of the early 17th-century Virginia Company ship, Post-Medieval Archaeology Journal, 45(1): 41-53. Bojakowski, P., Katie Custer Bojakowski, and Douglas Inglis, 2011, The Warwick Excavation 2010. The INA Annual, 2010: 50-55. Bojakowski, P., and Katie Custer. 2009. Warwick: 2008 Survey Results on a 17 th century English Galleon. The INA Annual, 2008: 55-59 Bojakowski, P., and Katie Custer, 2009. Western Ledge Reef Wreck: 2008 Season Report. The INA Annual, 2008: 59-61. Conference Proceedings Bojakowski, P., and Katie Custer Bojakowski, 2010, The Warwick Project: New Archaeological Research on a 17th-Century English Galleon. Edited by E. Laanela and J. Moore, ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings 2009: An Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology. Page 4
PUBLICATIONS Bojakowski, P., and Katie Custer Bojakowski, In Press. The Warwick: The Final Season of Excavation. INA Quarterly. Bojakowski, P., and Katie Custer, 2010. English Galleon Warwick: First Season of Archaeological Excavation. INA Quarterly 37(2&3): 26-27. Bojakowski, P., and Katie Custer Bojakowski, 2010. Reconstructing the Western Ledge Reef Wreck. INA Quarterly 37(2&3): 20. Bojakowski, P., and Katie Custer Bojakowski, 2010. Uncovering the Warwick. MARITimes 23(2): 15-18. Bojakowski, P., and Katie Custer, 2008, Secrets of the Warwick. MARITimes, 21(3):9-10. Custer, Katie and Sara G. Hoskins, 2003, The First Season of the Dominican Republic Survey Project: A Preliminary Survey of the Southern Coast. INA Quarterly 30(4): 19-22. Custer, Katie and Starr Cox, 2003, Post-Excavation Techniques for Recording Ship Timbers. INA Quarterly 30(3): 10-13. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE Co- Director The Emerald Bay Project 2014 Present Digital Humanities research project on historic barges in Lake Tahoe, CA. Co- Director The Equator Project 2013 Present Research, analysis, and 3-D reconstruction of the 19th-century pygmy schooner Equator Co- Director The South Basin Survey Project 2010 Co-director of cultural survey of the southern basin of the Dockyard Harbor, Bermuda. Co- Director The Warwick Project Page 5
2008 Present Co-director of the ongoing excavation of the 17 th -century English galleon Warwick in Bermuda. Co- Director The Western Ledge Reef Wreck Project 2007 2012 Co-director of the Western Ledge Reef Wreck Project in Bermuda. Instructor Broadreach Archaeological Field School 2006 Instructor for college accredited shipwreck archaeology field school in Bermuda. Co- Director Dominican Republic Survey Project 2003-2004 Co-Director of underwater survey project in the Dominican Republic. Staff The Red River Wreck 2005-2006 Participated in the excavation of the 19 th -century steam ship Heroine in Oklahoma. Participant Monti Cristi Shipwreck Project 2003 Participated in the excavation of a 17 th -century shipwreck in the Dominican Republic. Participant Cais do Sodre Archaeological Project 2001-2002 Participated in the recording of a 16 th -century shipwreck in Lisbon, Portugal. Participant Angra C Archaeological Project 2001 Participated in the excavation of a 16 th -century shipwreck in Azores, Portugal. PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS 2015 Presented two papers entitled: The Wreck of the Warwick: History and Analysis of an early 17 th -century Virginia Company Ship; The Emerald Bay Project: Digital Monitoring of Two 19 th -century Submerged Barges. Chaired a session entitled: Mercantilism and Hegemony; the crossroads of maritime ventures in the Americas from the 16 th to 18 th Page 6
centuries. Paper American Anthropological Association Annual Conference 2014 Presented paper entitled: The Wreck of the Warwick: History and Analysis of an early 17 th -century Virginia Company Ship. Keynote Speaker Underwater Archaeology Society of British Columbia Annual Conference 2014 Presented keynote address on the Warwick Project entitled: Guns, Provisions, and the Governor: The Wreck of the Warwick, Bermuda 1619. Paper Northwest Anthropology Annual Conference 2014 Presented paper entitled: The Many Lives of the Equator. Symposium Chair Society of Historical Archaeology Annual Conference 2013 Co-chair of a symposium on the Warwick Project entitled: Guns, Provisions, and the Governor: The Wreck of the Warwick, Bermuda 1619. Paper Institute of Nautical Archaeology Board Meting 2012 Presented paper entitled: The Wreck of the Warwick, 1619 2011 Presented a paper entitled: Exploration and Empire: Iconographic Evidence of Iberian Ships of Discovery and co-presented a paper entitled: The Warwick: Results of the first season of excavations. 2009 Presented a paper on the Warwick Project as part of a symposium entitled From the Still-Vexed Bermoothes: Celebrating the Archaeology of Bermuda 400 years on. 2007 Presented a paper on the preliminary statistical analysis of the 16 th -century Portuguese manuscript Mémoria das Armadas. Poster Society of American Archaeology Annual Conference Page 7
2006 Presented a poster entitled: In Search of the Caravel at the SAA conference in Puerto Rico. 2006 Presented a paper entitled Exploration and Empire: Iconographic Evidence of Iberian Ships of Discovery as part of a symposium on Iberian Seafaring called Edge of Empire. 2003 Presented research report on 2003 field season of the Dominican Republic Survey Project at the SHA conference in Mobile, Alabama. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Consultant Conservation Internship Program 2011-2012 Assisted with the graduate internship program at the National Museum of Bermuda. Consultant Documentary Film Production, CITV, Hamilton, Bermuda 2011 Present Provided archaeological and historical expertise to support the production of three documentary films (http://youtu.be/9lecpjgsywy) Consultant Castle Harbour Reef Study Project, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) 2011 2012 Assisted in the study and interpretation of the reef system in the vicinity of the significant archaeological sites Participant Nautical Archaeology Digital Library, Nautical Archaeology Program, Texas A&M University. 2006 Assisted in developing digital library of artifacts, texts, dictionaries, and treatises in the domain of nautical archaeology and early modern history. Consulting Editor Odyssey Magazine 2008 Consulting Editor for Odyssey Magazine s summer 2008 issue on the science behind the Golden Age of Piracy. Page 8
Research Intern National Museum of Bermuda 2007-2008 Recorded timbers from the Western Ledge Reef Wreck and consulted on the future conservation of this vessel and related artefacts. Graduate Student Coordinator Anthropology Department s Women s Week Invited Lecture Series 2007 Coordinated the Department of Anthropology s annual Women s Week lecture. Graduate Student Coordinator Institute of Nautical Archaeology s Shipwreck Weekend 2007 Coordinated the Nautical Archaeology Program s annual Shipwreck Weekend lecture series. Participant Nautical Archaeology Digital Library 2005-2006 Member of a research team developing the Nautical Archaeology Digital Library (NADL). http://nadl.tamu.edu Page 9