Professor Cheryl Ward
"Coffee, Coconuts and Chinese Porcelain: Shipwrecked in the Red Sea"
"Coffee, Coconuts and Chinese Porcelain: Shipwrecked in the Red Sea"
Professor Ward will be joining our Stanford AIA Chapter on Friday, October 11, 2024 at 7:00pm
Lecture is free and open to the public.
Cheryl Ward is Director of the Center for Archaeology and Anthropology, and Associate Professor and Marine Archaeologist with Coastal Carolina University’s Department of History. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Texas A&M University, and an M.S. in Bioarchaeology from the University of London’s Institute of Archaeology. Professor Ward specializes in maritime archaeology, ancient Egyptain ships, and archaeobotany. She has done fieldwork in Turkey (Uluburun and Cilicia), Egypt (Sadana Island, Lisht, Abydos, Wadi Gawasis), and in the Black Sea, Mediterranean, Red Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Indian Ocean. Her recent publications include “Pharonic ship remains at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis” (International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 39.1, 2010).
For more information on Professor Ward:
Professor Ward's Research Papers
Article on Prof. Ward's Egyptian nautical project