CURRICULUM VITAE Donny Leon Hamilton September 1, 2010 Personal Data ADDRESS: Department of Anthropology, Nautical Archaeology Program Texas A&M University,. College Station, TX 77843-4352 PHONE: (979) 845-6355 E-MAIL:
[email protected] Last Degree: Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Anthropology conferred May 1975. Dissertation entitled Conservation of Metal Objects from Underwater Sites: A Study in Methods The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 Most Recent Positions September 2007 to present Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Conservation Research Laboratory. Holder of the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Chair in Nautical Archaeology and the Yamini Family Chair in Liberal Arts. September 2005 to August 31, 2007 Professor, Director, Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation. President of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. Director, Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation. Holder of the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Chair in Nautical Archaeology and the Yamini Family Chair in Liberal Arts. Major Archaeological/Conservation Experience Project Director, Kizilburun Project, Turkey, 2005-2008 Co-director, Mardi Gras Shipwreck Project, Gulf of Mexico, 2007. Advisor, Mariners’ Museum Monitor Conservation Advisory Committee, September 2002 - Conservator, La Salle Shipwreck Project, July 1996 to present Conservation Advisor on the C.S.S. Hundley, 1998-1999 Conservation Advisor on the C.S.S. Alabama, 1995 Director, Conservation Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, 1978 to present Director, Port Royal, Jamaica Project, 1981 to present Invited Lectures/Papers 2007 Port Royal, Jamaica: the Excavation and Conservation of Material from the Sunken 17th- Century Pirate Town, Annual Woodward Lecture, The 21st Annual Shipwrecks Conference, Vancouver, Canada, March 31, 2007.