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 November 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.
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
Peter Good
BACKGROUND
RESEARCH INTERESTS
INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
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
Ros Jones
BACKGROUND
- BA PR with English Language and Linguistics
- Published author of historical biography, "William Dobson: The King's Painter" (Tygers Head Books, 2016)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- 17th century wills and handwritten documents, with a focus on the period of the English Civil Wars
- Transcribing and digitising the complete records of the Calendar of the Committee for Compounding (1640s/50s)
- Studying and transcribing mid 17th-century British newsbooks from the Thomason Tracts collection
INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
- Opportunity to read and study 17th century documents (paleographic interest)
- Collaborating on a project with likeminded researchers and historians
- Contributing to a better understanding of the subject and times
Dylan M. LeBlanc
BACKGROUND
- Currently teaching American & Atlantic history to high schoolers at La Lumiere School
- Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2019: Empire's Callous Hands: British 'Government Men' in the Atlantic Slave Trade
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- British Atlantic and early American history, in particular political culture, port towns, microhistory and individual lives
- Current book project: "The Two Husbands of Sarah Rhett: Trust and the Quest for Power in Early America"
INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
- Staying connected in academic/research networks, collaborating, maintaining paleography skills
- Giving students an opportunity to see the historical research process unfold
Sara Mah
BACKGROUND
- PhD candidate at the Institute of Reformation History (University of Geneva)
- MLitt in Early Modern History at the University of St Andrews
- Bachelor of Social Sciences in Political Science and Philosophy at the National University of Singapore
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Thesis: Understanding interpretations of suffering in 17th century Romandy and Scotland
- Generally interested in accidents, unnatural death, and supernatural beliefs and practices
- Side interest in 16th-19th century Southeast Asia
INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
- Working on challenging palaeography projects
- Collaborating with people of various backgrounds on a history project
Michael Powell-Davies
BACKGROUND
- PhD candidate at the University of Kent attached to the AHRC-funded Middling Culture project
- MA in Early Modern English Literature: Text and Transmission at King's College London in partnership with the British Library
- BA (Hons) in English Literature at the University of Sheffield
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- The cultural lives of the middling sort in early modern maritime London
- Narrative practices and the authorship of people and place
- Textual cultures within mobile communities
INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT
- My current research focusses largely on land-based maritime communities, so I am looking forward to working with some accounts of more mobile individuals
- I am interested in how identities of people and places are formed within administrative texts
- I am also just very excited to be involved in some collaborative work - looking forward to seeing what everyone brings along!
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!
Charlie Wilson
Charlie Wilson is a resting librarian, genealogist and home educator. She loves expanding her skill set and generally learning a little about everything. She discovered the Marine Lives project after spending time tracking her non-conformist ancestors in the travel journal of Thomas Prince, who sailed for New England in 1717 and was very meticulous in his observations. The opportunity to work with 17th century ship books at the very moment that she was reading about "this am a qt many porposes play about our ship" seemed serendipitous.
