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2025 Projects

Fieldwork & Research Projects

For 2025, INA committed $84,000 in support of new and continuing archaeological projects around the globe.

North America

  • Civil War Blockade Runner Denbigh, Phase IV
    USA | Barto Arnold (Director of Texas Operations)
  • The Philadelphia Gunboat Initiative
    USA | Chris Dostal (Texas A&M University) and Carolyn Kennedy (Texas A&M University)

Africa and the Middle East

  • The Kru/Krao Coast Heritage Initiative
    Liberia | Megan Crutcher (Texas A&M University)
  • Revisiting the Tantura A Shipwreck, Dor Lagoon
    Israel | Deborah Cvikel (University of Haifa)

Europe and Turkey

  • Cape Urdoviza Shipwreck
    Bulgaria | Kroum Batchvarov (INA/University of Connecticut) 
  • Cape Ratac Wreck (formerly designated Kolocep Glass Wreck)
    Croatia | Piotr Bojakowski (Texas A&M University), Katie Custer Bojakowski (Texas A&M University), Irena Radić Rossi (INA/University of Zadar)
  • Cape Gelidonya Shipwreck Project, 1960–2010
    Turkey | Nicolle Hirschfeld (INA/Trinity University) 
  • The Bozburun Amphoras
    Turkey | Ülkü Kara (Manisa Celal Bayar University)
  • The Hellenistic Shipwreck at Serçe Limanı
    Turkey | Orkan Köyağasıoğlu (INA)

Ongoing Research
In Turkey