The 2023 recipient of the ACUA & RECON Offshore DEI Student Travel Award is Megan Crutcher. Megan is a third-year PhD student in the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University, and holds an M.A. in Public History from Duquesne University (2020). Megan’s interests are in West African archaeology, maritime archaeology of the Early Modern Atlantic World, heritage politics, archaeological conservation, migration and forced displacement, and public archaeology. At Texas A&M, Megan’s research focuses on histories of maritimity, identity, diaspora, and labor among the Kru in Liberia. With an approach driven by interdisciplinary collaboration with the public, Megan hopes to use Africana Studies, public history, and historical archaeology methods for community archaeology in Liberia.
