Luncheon Lecture

October 12, 2023 11:00 AM

The Historical Society of Topsail Island is proud to present Kimberly Kenyon, NC Office of State Archaeology, who will speak about the archeological site of La Concorde/Queen Anne’s Revenge.

About our speaker…

Kimberly Kenyon is the NC Office of State Archaeology’s head conservator and the co-principal investigator for archaeological site 31CR314, La Concorde/Queen Anne’s Revenge. She is a graduate of the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University, where she completed her MA in anthropology and earned a certificate in conservation. Previously, she earned a BA in maritime studies from Texas A&M University at Galveston, minoring in both English and anthropology.

Kimberly has over 15 years of experience as a conservator and archaeologist and has worked on maritime and terrestrial projects in Texas, North Carolina, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, and Turkey. She served as interim head conservator for the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) in Bodrum, Turkey, and continues to serve INA as a research associate. Kim also teaches a graduate-level introduction to conservation course at East Carolina University.

Kim currently holds a seat on the NOAA USS Monitor National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council and recently joined the Board of Directors for the North Carolina Preservation Consortium.

In her free time, Kim and her husband work on restoring their home, Greenwreath, a late 18th-early 19th-century late Georgian/early Federal period National Register property in Pitt County.

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