Megan Crutcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 5445140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Crutcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Crutcher |
| SIGNATURE | CRUTCHER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mitchell Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7853-721X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Monster in the Harbor
This paper (re)construes the remains of a bulk timber carrier called Optimist that reportedly wrecked in the port of Greenville, Liberia during the Liberian civil wars (1989–2003). Its monstrous hull is an uncanny reminder of militarization, industrialization, and deterioration through extractive industries and global regimes of resource exploitation. This unique wreck site illustrates how landscapes created by ruin, abandonment, rust, and decay,…
A Maritime Cultural Landscape of Liberia, West Africa
Developing a new theoretical model for West African maritime archaeology
Mississippi Street was Eaten by the Sea”
They Do Not Have Physiognomies of Their Own”
During the second half of the long eighteenth century, various nations and empires began keeping records of sailors arriving and departing certain ports. In Portugal, all sailors were required to register at the Junta do Comércio (the board of trade), a measure enacted in the wake of a ban on the importation of enslaved people into the kingdom in 1761; an exemption was later made for enslaved sailors or crew members. This article draws on a data …
For King and Empire’
This article traces histories of the Kru in West Africa from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries, arguing that divergent identities of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century Kru canoers became unified when that unified identity was necessary for maintaining political, economic, and cultural autonomy during and after the slave trade. In conjunction with earlier multilingual work on the Kru mariners of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this artic…
For King and Empire’
This article traces histories of the Kru in West Africa from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries, arguing that divergent identities of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century Kru canoers became unified when that unified identity was necessary for maintaining political, economic, and cultural autonomy during and after the slave trade. In conjunction with earlier multilingual work on the Kru mariners of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this artic…
Mississippi Street was Eaten by the Sea”
For King and Empire’
This article traces histories of the Kru in West Africa from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries, arguing that divergent identities of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century Kru canoers became unified when that unified identity was necessary for maintaining political, economic, and cultural autonomy during and after the slave trade. In conjunction with earlier multilingual work on the Kru mariners of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this artic…
Developing a new theoretical model for West African maritime archaeology
Mississippi Street was Eaten by the Sea”
They Do Not Have Physiognomies of Their Own”
During the second half of the long eighteenth century, various nations and empires began keeping records of sailors arriving and departing certain ports. In Portugal, all sailors were required to register at the Junta do Comércio (the board of trade), a measure enacted in the wake of a ban on the importation of enslaved people into the kingdom in 1761; an exemption was later made for enslaved sailors or crew members. This article draws on a data …
The Monster in the Harbor
This paper (re)construes the remains of a bulk timber carrier called Optimist that reportedly wrecked in the port of Greenville, Liberia during the Liberian civil wars (1989–2003). Its monstrous hull is an uncanny reminder of militarization, industrialization, and deterioration through extractive industries and global regimes of resource exploitation. This unique wreck site illustrates how landscapes created by ruin, abandonment, rust, and decay,…
A Maritime Cultural Landscape of Liberia, West Africa
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)