Dr. Kroum Batchvarov is an Associate Professor of Maritime Archaeology at the Department of Anthropology and the Maritime Studies Program at University of Connecticut. Dr. Batchvarov's main research focus is maritime archaeology of 17th-century seafaring, specializing in English and Dutch ship construction and Black Sea seafaring and shipbuilding. Batchvarov is part of a team of scientists on The Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project. Since its inception in 2015, The Black Sea MAP, one of the largest maritime archaeological projects ever staged, has been investigating the changes in the ancient environment of the Black Sea region including the impact of sea level change during the last glacial cycle and interconnectivity through the millennia.

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Not all who travel are immigrants: Asian seafarers and the limits of citizenship

Taken from work on the first book length survey of Asian American maritime history. The project expands upon the inter-imperial history of Chinese, Filipino and South Asian migration beyond the constructs of immigration and citizenship. In this revisionist design, the research establishes a trans-colonial historical framework to examine the development of maritime traditions that came to inform the patterns of Asian seafaring and maritime occupations migration encountered by Americans from the eighteenth century onward. These histories unmoor Asian America from its continental preoccupation.