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 publicationa nd 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 f have also added some notes on my own research interests and goals for this project
Joshua Eckhardt
BACKGROUND
- Professor, Virginia College of Humanities and Sciencies, English Faculty
- Research/teaching focus: Early Modern English
- Editor of online scholarly editions British Virginia: VCU Scholars Compass
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Strong interest in handwritten manuscripts, as well as printed material
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
- Magement 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 depsoitions, 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
- Strengthen Marine Lives volunteer group in the Americas
- Explore new ways of collaboration, which build on exisitng Marine Lives approaches to team building and ccollaborative research and publicationn
