Media Appearances
"Eye on the Horizon: Culture and Protected Waters" - Protected areas need to represent the full breadth of experiences of people living in the United States and honor co-design and co-management with Indigenous and local communities. This session will highlight efforts to make our National Marine Sanctuary System and marine monuments more inclusive of all people.
Dr. Justin Dunnavant joins the College of the Atlantic 2022 Summer Institute.
Dunnavant investigates the relationship between ecology and enslavement in the former Danish West Indies. He is cofounder of the Society of Black Archaeologists. In 2021, he was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and inducted into The Explorers Club as one of “Fifty People Changing the World that You Need to Know About.” This year, he was awarded the 2022 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence at Occidental College. His research has been featured on Netflix’s “Explained,” Hulu’s “Your Attention Please” and in print in American Archaeology, Science Magazine, and National Geographic Magazine. He is an AAUS Scientific SCUBA Diver. and an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA.
Tara Roberts, National Geographic Explorer and storyteller, and Justin Dunnavant, archaeologist and National Geographic Explorer, speak as part of College of the Atlantic’s 2022 Summer Institute: Our One and Only Ocean.
Diving for Lost Shipwrecks
Dan Snow’s History Hit
From the 16th to the 19th centuries, European slave traders forcibly uprooted millions of African people and shipped them across the Atlantic in conditions of great cruelty. Today, on the bottom of the world’s oceans lies the lost wrecks of ships that carried enslaved people from Africa to the Americas.
Justin Dunnavant is an Assistant Professor, archaeologist and National Geographic Explorer. Justin shares with Dan the incredible project that he is a part of - a group of specialist black divers who are dedicated to finding and documenting some of the thousands of slave ships wrecked in the Atlantic Ocean during the transatlantic slave trade. They also unearth the history of a former Danish slave colony in the Virgin Islands and discuss Justin’s research about the African Diaspora and Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line.
Hey, Assistant Producer Hannah here! A little caveat for this episode, Dan was on his way to record some exciting things for History Hit with the Royal Mint, so you may hear some rain in the background.
Justin Dunnavant Breaks Ground
Your Attention Please
Where does memory lie and how can we bring it to the surface? This week Kimberly chats with archaeologist Justin Dunnavant, who’s made it his life mission to preserve Black heritage. He shares moments from his early beginnings in the field, his most incredible finds, and his hopes for the future of archaeology and the academy. Justin invites us on a journey through not only land and sea but time and space.
For more information about the Society of Black Archaeologists, visit societyofblackarchaeologists.com.
