Carrie Sowden

Carrie Sowden

Carrie Sowden graduated from Emory University with a BS in Chemistry; she went on to work in several bio-research laboratories before landing a job with R.C. Goodwin and Associates, a cultural resources management firm. She used that job as preparation for her education at Texas A∓M University. She graduated from the Nautical Archaeology Program there with a Master of Arts in Anthropology. Her areas of specialty are historical archaeology and waterlogged artifact conservation. During her career as a nautical archaeologist, she has worked on shipwreck projects in Maine, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, Portugal, the Azores, Turkey, and Ohio. She has been an archaeologist on the Red River/Heroine project in Oklahoma with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. She is currently the Archaeological Director for the Peachman Lake Erie Shipwreck Research Center for the Great Lakes Historical Society. She has been PI on many projects in Lake Erie. Most recently she co-lead a team into the investigation of the 1850 side-wheel steamer Anthony Wayne. This summer she plans to continue the field investigation into the Battle of Lake Erie.

Carrie will be presenting the following program at this year's show: