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Chris Cartellone is pursuing his doctorate in the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University. As a Research Associate and Project Director with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Chris has been documentating an 18th-century British warship lost in Nevis, West Indies. His primary research interests within Historical Archaeology include Imperialism, War and Society, Long-Distance Exchange, Social Identity, and Conflict Archaeology studied through a lens of Seafaring and Maritime Security.

Chris earned a B.S. from Iowa State University in History in 1999 and an M.A. from East Carolina University in Maritime Studies in 2003. After graduating Chris spent 2004 serving a tour with a U.S. Army mortar platoon in Iraq. Upon returning to the United States, Chris spent the next few years participating and directing all phases of archaeological investigations primarily on terrestrial sites throughout the Midwestern United States for various private CRM firms and in Nevis, West Indies. Additionally, Chris has maritime archaeological experience on projects in Florida, North Carolina, Bermuda, Canada, Ghana, Nevis, and Puerto Rico.