Chelsea Freeland
Chelsea Rachelle Freeland (MA ‘14) is a Research Fellow focusing on community and underwater archaeology. She returns to the Program in Maritime Studies to serve as a after almost ten years working for the federal government. Before rejoining the program, Chelsea worked to protect and preserve international cultural property at the U.S. Department of State’s Cultural Heritage Center for seven years, focusing on trafficking in Europe and the Middle East and protecting cultural heritage during armed conflict in Yemen and Ukraine. Prior to that, she was on contract with the Maritime Administration for archival shipwreck research and at Naval History and Heritage Command’s Museum storage facility for object research and conservation. Chelsea has studied and worked underwater or above in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Honduras, India, Israel, Italy, Morocco, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Oman, Türkiye, and the United Arab Emirates as well as at several historic shipwreck locations in the United States.
Selected Publications:
Freeland, Chelsea, Modern Greece: A Revised History for the English Blockade Runner. Tributaries Spring, Vol. 17, 20-32.
Freeland, Chelsea, A Model for Analyzing Ship and Cargo Abandonment Using Economic and Utilitarian Values. ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings.
Freeland, Chelsea, Two-dimensional v. Three-dimensional Sites for Recording Practice. Nautical Archaeology Autumn, 12-13, Nautical Archaeology Society.
Freeland, Chelsea, Allison Miller, William Sassorossi, and Jeneva Wright, Vessel #2013.9.9 North Carolina Skiff in Boats of Currituck: An Analysis of Six Watercraft from the Whalehead Preservation Trust. Nathan Richards and David Stewart (eds.).