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. 2006 Electrolytic Reduction in Maritime Archaeology Conservation, Eastern Analytical Symposium, Somerset, New Jersey, November 23-26, 2006. 1 2006 La Belle, Louis XIV’s Flag Ship: Excavation, Conservation, and Display, Keynote address to the To Sea or not to Sea Colloquium, , 2nd International Colloquium on Maritime and Fluvial Archaeology in the Southern North Sea Area, Bruges, Belgium, September 21-23, 2006. Patents Jerome Melvin Klosowski, Charles Wayne Smith and Donny Leon Hamilton 2002 A Method of Conserving Waterlogged Materials, United States Patent # 6,432,553 issued August 13, 2002. Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation. 3 Claims. Jerome Melvin Klosowski, Charles Wayne Smith and Donny Leon Hamilton 2004 Conservation of Organic and Inorganic Materials, United States Patent # 6,835,411, issued December 28, 2004. Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation. 3 Claims. Selected Recent Publications 2008 Archaeological Excavation of the Mardi Gras Shipwreck (16GM01), Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope, Ben Ford, Amy Borgens, William Bryant, Dawn Marshall, Peter Hitchcock, Cesar Arias, and Donny Hamilton. OCS Report, MMS 2008-037, U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region . 2008 Port Royal, Jamaica: Archaeological Past, Present, and Future, in Underwater and Maritime Archaeology in Latin America and the Caribbean, editors Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton and Pilar Luna Erriguerena, One World Archaeology Series 56, Left Coast Press, Inc. Wlanut Creek, California, pp. 259-269. 2008 Underwater Archaeology, In: Encyclopedia of Archaeology, ed.by Deborah M. Pearsall, Academic Press, New York, Vol. 3, 2161-2164. By George F. Bass, and Donny L. Hamilton. 2007 Das Institute of Nautical Archaeology, ihre Wechselbeziehungen und Rollen in der studentischen Ausbildung, Skyllis, Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Unterwasserarchäologie e.V. (DEGUWA), pp. 4-12. 2006 Port Royal, Jamaica: Archaeological Past and Development Potential, Heritage at Risk Special Edition, editors Robert Grenier, David Nutley and Ian Cochran, International Council on Monuments and Sites, pp. 49-51. 2006 Pirates and Merchants: Port Royal, Jamaica, X Marks the Spot; The Archaeology of Piracy, Russell K. Ewen, eds, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, pp. 13-30. 2005 La Salle’s Ship Belle: Matagorda Bay, Texas, The Conservation, Beneath the Seven Seas, ed. George F. Bass, Thames & Hudson, London, pp. 158-163. 2.