Rate My Professor Lynn Harris

Harris has led a collaborative project with Costa Rican partners for the past four years, studying two shipwrecks and maritime legacies in Cahuita National Park on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. Her scholarly contributions include authoring Patroons and Periaguas: Enslaved Watermen and Watercraft of the Lowcountry (University of South Carolina Press, 2015) and editing Sea Ports and Sea Power: African Maritime Landscapes Studies (Springer Press, 2016). She has co-authored articles such as "Preliminary Investigations of Two Shipwrecks in Cahuita Park, Costa Rica" in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (2018, with Nathan Richards), contributions to the Journal of Maritime Archaeology, and pieces in Coriolis: Interdisciplinary Journal of Maritime Studies. Earlier works include "South Carolina Shipyards: Labour, Logistics, Lumber and Ladies" in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology (2010) and chapters in edited volumes like Between the Devil and the Deep (2013) and Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2013). Harris serves as a member of the Advisory Council in Maritime Archaeology and as a Nautical Archaeology Society instructor, delivering public workshops for diving stewardship groups locally and internationally alongside colleagues. She welcomes graduate students interested in underwater archaeology, interdisciplinary research, and applied maritime history projects.