Timothy J. Runyan is the director of East Carolina University’s Maritime Study Program. His interests include medieval maritime history, the Great Lakes, underwater archaeology, and law and preservation. He is the recipient of the John Lyman Book Award by the North American Society for Oceanic History. He published European Naval and Maritime History, 300-1500 (1985), Ships, Seafaring and Society (1987), and To Die Gallantly: The Battle of the Atlantic (1994), a selection of the Military Book Club, and numerous articles. He is past editor of The American Neptune, a journal of maritime history published by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. Runyan is a founder and trustee of the Great Lakes Museum of Science, Environment and Technology, and the Steamship William G. Mather Ship Museum, both in Cleveland, OH. He is vice present of the International Commission for Maritime History, chairman of the National Maritime Alliance, and chair of the National Maritime Heritage Grants Advisory Committee. He is past president of the North American Society for Oceanic History, and the Great Lakes Historical Society. Runyan teaches European maritime history, sea power, and a course on professional issues in nautical archaeology.
Timothy J. Runyan is the director of East Carolina University’s Maritime Study Program. His interests include medieval maritime history, the Great Lakes, underwater archaeology, and law and preservation. He is the recipient of the John Lyman Book Award by the North American Society for Oceanic History. He published European Naval and Maritime History, 300-1500 (1985), Ships, Seafaring and Society (1987), and To Die Gallantly: The Battle of the Atlantic (1994), a selection of the Military Book Club, and numerous articles. He is past editor of The American Neptune, a journal of maritime history published by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. Runyan is a founder and trustee of the Great Lakes Museum of Science, Environment and Technology, and the Steamship William G. Mather Ship Museum, both in Cleveland, OH. He is vice present of the International Commission for Maritime History, chairman of the National Maritime Alliance, and chair of the National Maritime Heritage Grants Advisory Committee. He is past president of the North American Society for Oceanic History, and the Great Lakes Historical Society. Runyan teaches European maritime history, sea power, and a course on professional issues in nautical archaeology.