Marc Porter

Marc Porter is a second year graduate student at East Carolina University. He has a B.A. in history from St. Mary's in Maryland, and he is a licensed ship captain. He spent much of the last spring semester working on the RV Perkins, which is the newly acquired research vessel of the program in Maritime Studies at ECU. This past summer he spent time in Maryland and North Carolina working on the thesis projects of his fellow students.

MJ Harris is a second year graduate student at East Carolina University. She is originally from Oregon and received a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Virginia. This past summer she was conducting thesis research in Yellowstone Park, where she worked with the park service and an innovative educational program.