Volunteer research interests and goals
This wiki page is for Marine Lives volunteers to tell us a little about their research interests, and what they would like to get out of the Marine Lives Ship Account Book project.
In the next few days we will be giving all volunteers editorial access to our wiki, and will be giving you a ten minute lesson in how to add wiki content, how to make simple edits, and how to add a new page of your own.
So when we get together for the first time on October 18th, 2021, for our one hour launch ZOOM meeting, we will started each of us to become familiar with using the main publication and collaboration platform for this project - the Marine Lives wiki.
Let me (Colin Greenstreet) kick this page off with some brief notes on a one to one ZOOM call with volunteer Dr Joshua Eckhardt on Monday, October 18th 2021. I'll leave it to Joshua to review this and change it as he sees fit. I have also added some notes on my own research interests and goals for this project
Contents
Joshua Eckhardt
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BACKGROUND
- Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, English Faculty
- Research/teaching focus: Early Modern English
- Editor of online scholarly editions British Virginia
- Faculty sponsor of the Superscripts
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Strong interest in handwritten manuscripts, as well as printed books in early modern bookshops and libraries
INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
- Supporting a current student who is doing research into an English mariner
- Discovering new manuscript material for future use with students
Colin Greenstreet
BACKGROUND
- Social sciences undergraduate; Masters in Business Administration
- Management consultant, pharmaceutical R&D executive and entrepreneur
- Last ten years starting and supporting social ventures, including Marine Lives, Viae Regiae, and the Signs of Literacy initiative
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Strong interest in handwritten manuscripts
- Building a powerful set of metadata for English High Court of Admiralty depositions, 1574 to 1684
- Researching and publishing on Mariner literacy and Early Modern commercial record keeping
- Fostering collaboration between academic and public historians
INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
- Strengthening the Marine Lives volunteer group in the Americas
- Exploring new ways of collaboration, which build on existing Marine Lives approaches to team building and collaborative research and publication
Sara Mah
BACKGROUND
- Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, English Faculty
- Research/teaching focus: Early Modern English
- Editor of online scholarly editions British Virginia
- Faculty sponsor of the Superscripts
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Strong interest in handwritten manuscripts, as well as printed books in early modern bookshops and libraries
INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
- Supporting a current student who is doing research into an English mariner
- Discovering new manuscript material for future use with students
Lou Roper
BACKGROUND
- SUNY Distinguished Professor of History, State University of New York at New Paltz
- Research/teaching focus: Expansion of 'early modern' European overseas interests, especially Anglo-American colonization, and cultural interaction
- Author of Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Interests, 1613-1688 [1]
- Co-General Editor of [2]
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- European, especially English, overseas commercial and colonizing activity in the long 17th century
INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
- Improving access to HCA series manuscripts
- Practicing my transcription and providing transcription opportunities for pupils
Rebecca Rose
BACKGROUND
- B.A., history, College of William & Mary
- History M.A. student, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Member of the Superscripts
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Early 17th-century Virginia, Jamestown colony
INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
- Writing thesis on an English mariner at Jamestown, hoping to get a better grounding in maritime history
Tabitha Stanmore
BACKGROUND
- Tabitha Stanmore University of Bristol profile
- Research/teaching focus: Medieval and Early Modern Britain
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Interest in historical community and social networks.
INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
- Interest in different types of primary source
- Aiming to brush up my palaeography!
