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Jennifer McKinnon
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Jennifer McKinnon has a background in historical and maritime archaeology and cultural heritage management. She has worked in the US, Australia, the Pacific, and Europe on sites ranging from the colonial period to WWII. Her research areas include Spanish colonial archaeology, archaeology and history of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, conflict archaeology of WWII in the Pacific; landscape and seascape archaeology; in situ conservation and preservation, and Community Archaeology. Jennifer has published a number of book chapters and journal articles and co-edited (with Dr. Toni L. Carrell) a book with Springer Press entitled,Underwater Archaeology of a Pacific Battlefield: The WWII Battle of Saipan.McKinnon is a Research Associate of Ships of Exploration and Discovery Research, Inc., a non-profit organization with which she has partnered to conduct WWII-related research in the Pacific.
Prior to teaching at ECU, she was a Senior Lecturer in Flinders University's Program in Maritime Archaeology in South Australia and a Senior Underwater Archaeologist with Florida's Bureau of Archaeological Research, Department of State.