Session and Paper Schedule
WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY
1600-1900 Registration in Hotel Lobby
1700-1900 Casual Reception at Paine Residence (150 Eastern Promenade, Portland)
1900-2100 NASOH Council Meeting at Paine Residence (150 Eastern Promenade, Portland)
THURSDAY, 12 MAY - All sessions will be on the 2nd floor of the Conference Center.
0800-1500 Registration on 2nd Floor of the Conference Center
0830-0900 Opening Remarks – NASOH, NAFHA, SHNM, NHF
Gene Smith, NASOH, Texas Christian University
Ingo Heinbrink, NAFHA,Old Dominion University
Annette Finley-Crosswhite, SHNM, Old Dominion University
Charles T. Creekman, NHF
0900-0930 Plenary Paper – Maritime Maine: History and Renaissance
Lincoln Paine, Independent Scholar
0930-1045 Session 1 – The Politics of Fish
Chair -
Governor Nelson Dingley lives on: Maine, Norway and Protectionism
Peirs Crocker, Norwegian Canning Museum
Toward the “Third Great Fishing Experiment”: Michael Graham, the Fisheries Laboratory at Lowestoft, and the creation of the International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries
Jennifer Hubbard, Ryerson University
Fish, War and Empire: The Political Biology of Herring
Alison Rieser, University of Hawaii
Session 2 – Society for the History of Navy Medicine: Discipline, Disease and Death
Chair -
Dying in Foreign Ports: Commemorating 19th-Century Sailor Burials in Norfolk, Virginia Cemeteries
Annette Finley-Crosswhite, Old Dominion University
Punishment in the US Navy: Analysis of Data from the USS Columbus, 1845-1848
Mechelle Kerns, United States Naval Academy
HIV Testing and Treatment in the U.S. Navy, 1985-1993
Natalie Shibley, University of Pennsylvania
1045-1100 Break
1100-1215 Session 3 – Fisheries Technology and Culture
Chair -
Fishing…with Steam?!! Motives for Early Fishing Expeditions using Steam-Powered Vessels
John Laurence Busch, Independent Scholar
Industrial Fish Processing in California and Maine: A comparative Assessment
Kathryn Davis, San Jose State University
“Fish Culture” at the London International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883
Kelly P. Bushnell, Royal Holloway, University of London
Session 4 - Naval and Commercial Economic Adaption
Chair -
Examining the Significance of Royal Navy Captures, 1756-1763
Daniel Bishop, University of Alabama
Shipping Frozen Water
Thomas Donoghue, Independent Scholar
Risk, Violence, and Rewards in Colonial Boston’s Atlantic Logwood Trade, 1690-1748
Steven Pitt, University of Pittsburg
1215-1315 Lunch
1315-1430 Session 5 – Laws and the Sea
Chair - Alison Rieser, University of Hawaii
De-Colonization or Tragedy of the Commons – a revisionist approach to fisheries history
Ingo Heidbrink, Old Dominion University
Outpaced by Events: Evolution and the Law of the Sea
Elizabeth Nyman, Texas A&M University at Galveston
UNCLOS III as an arena of global resource conflicts
Johanna Sackel, University of Paderborn
Session 6 – Maritime Place
Chair - Penelope K. Hardy, The Johns Hopkins University
Project Sea Use: Cold War Science on the Seafloor
Antony Adler, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Shelburne Shipyard Steamboat Graveyard: The 2015 Field Season
Carolyn Kennedy, Texas A&M University
Illuminating Brant Point: A History of Nantucket’s Coast Guard Station
Brian Seymour, Michael Baker International
1430-1445 Break
1445-1600 Session 7 – Coastal Battlescapes
Chair -
NOAA and WWII's Battle of the Atlantic
Tane Casserley, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
New Light on the Battle off the Virginia Capes
Michael Crawford, Navy History and Heritage Command
Ironclad Abandoned: Defending Charleston Harbor, 1864-1865
Charles Wexler, Rowan University
Session 8 – Politics and Maritime Space
Companies of Commerce, Companies of Colonization: The Impossible Choice
Gayle Brunelle. California State University at Fullerton
Texas Slavery, the Mexican Navy, British Imperialism, and Alta California
Marti Klein, California State University at Fullerton
Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Exploration, and American National Maturity, 1850-1855
Michael Verney, University of New Hampshire
1600-1730 Forum 1 – Erasing the History/Historical Archaeology Divide in Maritime Research
Alicia Caporaso, Moderator, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Anna Gibson Holloway, National Park Service
Amy Mitchell-Cook, University of West Florida
Paul Fontenoy, North Carolina Maritime Museums
Michael Tuttle, Gray & Pape
Kevin Crisman, Texas A&M University
1800-2100 Reception – Naval Historical Foundation and Texas Christian University in the Conference Center on 1st Floor.
FRIDAY, 13 MAY - All sessions will be on the 2nd floor of the Conference Center.
0800-1200 Registration
0830-1000 Session 9 – The Vessel as Central Character
Chair -
Pirate Steamboat: The History and Archaeology of Lake Champlain's Water Witch
Kevin Crisman, Texas A&M University
The Historical Legacy and Archaeological Investigation of the USS Castine
Doug Jones, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Ada K. Damon: Archaeological Field School of an Essex Fishing Schooner
Calvin Mires, PAST Foundation and SEAMAHP
The City of Flint--At War Before the War
Donald Willett, Texas A&M University at Galveston
Session 10 – Missing Voices in Maritime History
Chair -
Freedom by Another Name: A Black Seaman’s Unusual Path to Emancipation
Margaret Stack, University of Connecticut
'The View from Aloft': History from the Sailor’s Perspective
Sarah Batterson, University of New Hampshire
'His Name Does Not Appear': The Invisible Technician at Sea
Penelope K. Hardy, The Johns Hopkins University
A Cabin of Her Own: Whaling Captains’ Wives at Sea in the 19th-Century
Laurel Seaborn, University of New Hampshire and SEAMAHP
Session 11 – The Great War
Chair -
Naval Base Number 13: The United States Navy in the Azores During World War I
Gordon Calhoun, Naval History and Heritage Command
The Imperial and Royal Navy’s U-boot Dienst, 1907-1918: World War I’s Smallest Submarine Force
Paul E. Fontenoy, North Carolina Maritime Museums
Auxiliary Cruisers in World War I
Michael Kegerreis, Texas A&M University
Tidal Wave: The Greatest Ship Launch in History
Donald Shomette, Independent Scholar
1000-1015 Break
1015-1145 Forum 2 - History and Future of the Naval Documents of the American Revolution
Charles T. Creekman, Moderator, Naval Historical Foundation
William Dudley, Naval Historical Foundation
John Hattendorf, U.S. Naval War College
Cristopher McKee, The Newberry Library, Chicago
1145-1245 Lunch
1300 Fieldtrip – Maine Maritime Museum
Evening on your own
SATURDAY 14 MAY- All sessions will be on the 2nd floor of the Conference Center.
0800-1200 Registration
0830-1000 Session 12 –Maritime Frontiers
Chair -
La Balise: A Submerged Frontier Landscape
Arlice Marionneaux, University of West Florida
A Vast BlankSpace: Sir John Franklin's Artic Maritime Frontier
Christina L. Bolte, University of West Florida
Studies in Storytelling: Tourism versus Scholarship in Maritime Pensacola
Jessie Cragg, University of West Florida
The Alaskan Maritime Frontier and its Remnants: The Evolving Cultural Landscape of the Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon Fishery
John O. Jensen, University of West Florida
Session 13 – Creating National Identity
Chair -
The Whale's Tale and the Northwest Passage
John Grady, Independent Scholar
The Case of Lt. Hooe: Race, Politics and the Antebellum Navy
Zachary Kopin, University of Michigan
The Neutrality Problem: French Privateers in Boston, 1793
Edward J. Martin, Endicott College
The Thirteen-Star American Flag: Origin of a Symbol
Henry W. Moeller, Independent Scholar
Session 14 – Individual as Drivers of Change
Chair -
Fighting For Elbow Room: John Paul Jones, the Father of Naval Irregular Warfare
Benjamin “BJ” Armstrong, King’s College, London
The Historical Section: U.S. Navy Commodore Dudley W. Knox, Intelligence, and Maritime Education (1915-1960)
David Kohen, U.S. Naval War College
Admiral William S. Sims: From the Spanish American War to the Washington Naval Conference
Nathan Wells, Quincy College
1000-1015 Break
1030-1145 Session 15 – Envisioning the Past through Geo-Spatial Analysis
Chair -
Historio-Spatial Analyses of Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico
Alicia Caporaso, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Recreating Medieval Trade Routes: Interpreting Japan’s Maritime Past Using GIS
Michelle Damian, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
New Life for Old Data: GIS and the Fur Trade
John Knoerl, Independent Scholar
Kurt Knoerl, Museum of Underwater Archaeology
Session 16 – Maritime Influences in Popular Culture
Chair -
The Battle of Hampton Roads in Popular Music
Anna Gibson Holloway, National Park Service
“Cruise of the Lapwing”: A Jonesport, Maine Schooner Fisherman’s Ballad
Stephen N. Sanfilippo, Maine Maritime Academy
They Call Her a Ship" Colonial (or Early American) Vessel Naming Patterns in a Changing Atlantic
Michael Tuttle, Gray & Pape
Session 17 – Shedding Light on Maritime Innovators
Chair -
In the Crosshairs: Civil War Naval Gun Sights
Miguel Gutierrez, Texas A&M University
Deserted Icons: The Role of Beached Shipwrecks in Namibia's Cultural History
Jennifer E. Jones, East Carolina University
Robert Bruce Inverarity: A Maritime “Renaissance Man”
Joseph W. Zarzynski, Independent Scholar
1145-1300 Lunch and NASOH Business Meeting
1330-1530 Fieldtrip – Cruise of Portland Harbor
1800-2100 Awards Banquet – NASOH, NAFHA, SHNM, NHF
Banquet Speaker
Joshua M. Smith, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
How to Abandon Ship: The Sinking of the SS Robin Moor, 1941
