Ms Kimberly Monk

BA Anthropology (Western Ontario), MA Maritime History & Nautical Archaeology (East Carolina), PhD (in progress) Archaeology (Bristol)

Teaching Fellow Department of Archaeology and Anthropology University of Bristol 43 Woodland Road BRISTOL BS8 1UU, UK Tel: +44 (0) 117 954 6069 Fax: +44 (0) 117 954 6001 E-mail: K.Monk@bris.ac.uk

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Teaching and Administrative Responsibilities

Coordinator of the MA in Maritime Archaeology and History, and lecturer for postgraduate and undergraduate units on maritime archaeology.

Research Interests

Global seafaring since 1500; ship construction; shipyard archaeology; maritime landscapes; lake and canal water craft; North American Great Lakes; Hudson's Bay Company ; 17th & 18th Century Royal Navy; and historical archaeology.

Current Research Activities

Road Harbour Shipwreck Project (http://www.hmsnymph.com)
Underwater investigations of historic shipwrecks sunk at Tortola, British Virgin Islands. The project is also run as a summer field school, open to Bristol students and the public. Please visit the following web site for further information regarding the upcoming 2009 field project: Click Here.

York Factory Remote Sensing Project
Marine geophysical investigations within the subarctic waters of Hudson Bay; adjacent to historic York Factory, a Hudson's Bay Company fur trade post. Research focuses on location and documentation of three 17th Century shipwrecks, in addition to 300 years of submerged remains from the fort, harbour and nearby anchorages.

Shickluna Shipyard Project (http://www.greatlakesinstitute.ca)
Terrestrial investigations of a 19th Century shipyard, located in St. Catharines, Ontario. The site bears evidence to 80 years of shipbuilding history, with over 200 vessels launched from its slipways.

Forthcoming Publication

2009     Imperial Pawns: Characterization and Analysis of the British Naval Sloop of War. 

Selected Recent Conferences and Papers

2008     Reading shipwrecks - what wreck remains tell us. Session organizer (with Connie Kelleher) for the 6^th World Archaeological Congress in Dublin, Ireland. June.
2008     Safe Harbour, Safe Haven?: Characterization and Analysis of Shipwreck Remains at Road Harbour, British Virgin Islands. Paper Presented at the 6^th World Archaeological Congress in Dublin, Ireland. June.
2008     Some Assembly Required: Continuing Investigations of Shipwreck Remains at Road Harbour, BVI. Invited paper presented at the Royal BVI Yacht Club, Road Town, Tortola. June.
2008     Documenting Caribbean Maritime Heritage: Establishing Programs of Research and Education in the British West Indies. Invited paper presented as part of the Windward Passage Symposium, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos. May.
2007     Maritime Disaster in the Scillies: The Wreck of the Firebrand and Sir Cloudesley Shovell’s Fleet 1707. Invited paper to the Plymouth and District Archaeological Society, Plymouth, UK. November.
2007     Preliminary Investigations of HM Fireship Firebrand.  Paper presented at the 40th Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology (SHA), Williamsburg, Virginia. January.
2007     Case of a Missing Nymph: Road Harbour Shipwreck Reconnaissance. Paper presented (with David Moore) at the 40th Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology (SHA), Williamsburg, Virginia. January.
2006     The 2005 Road Town Harbour Archaeological Project.  Heritage Alive: Journal of Virgin Islands Studies.
2006     University of Bristol Fieldwork 2006. Presentation to the International Shipwreck Conference, Plymouth, England, January.
2005     Historical and Archaeological Investigations of HMS Nymph: An Eighteenth Century Royal Navy Sloop of War.  Invited paper presented at the Royal BVI Yacht Club, Road Town, Tortola. June.