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February 2023 eGam
A monthly newsletter about the latest happenings in the Williams-Mystic community, for alumni and friends of the program.
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- Mystic Seaport presents Black Maritime Excellence (free virtual event)
- Black Maritime History Spotlight: Venture Smith
- S23 Offshore Field Seminar
- Happy Birthday, Jim Carlton!
- This Month's Global Galley Recipe
- Support Williams-Mystic
- Jobs, Internships, and Other Opportunities
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Mystic Seaport presents Black Maritime Excellence (free virtual event)
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Black Maritime Excellence: Reclaiming Afro-Atlantic Dialogues
Free Event with Virtual Access
Saturday, February 25, 1:30 P.M. EST
This invigorating moderated roundtable conversation will highlight Black Excellence at sea and will include historical and contemporary Black maritime narratives. Through the voices of contemporary scholars and community members, the conversation will present a broad narrative of Black maritime experiences and perspectives and will help reshape the conversation about New England’s maritime histories. The educational and community-oriented conversation will encourage attendees to confront our shared history and adjust the conversation moving forward.
The event will be moderated by Akeia de Barros Gomes, PhD, the Senior Curator of Maritime Social Histories at Mystic Seaport Museum, Director of the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies and Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Five phenomenal Maritime Scholars will share fascinating history and their remarkable work to reclaim and highlight Black Excellence, including:
- Dr. Kevin Dawson- Associate Professor of History, Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group, Chair. University of California, Merced. Author of Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
- Skip Finley- Journalist, Martha’s Vineyard Gazette; Author of Whaling Captains of Color: America’s First Meritocracy
- Dr. Frank Mitchell- Cultural Organizer in Visual Arts and Public Humanities; Curatorial Advisor. Author of The Catalog Afrocosmologies: American Reflections, The anthology African American Connecticut Explored, and The Culinary Study African American Food Culture.
- Dr. Amelia Moore- Associate Professor of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island, Associate Producer of the documentary film, Decolonizing Science?, directed by Dr. Kendall Moore.
- Dr. Timothy Walker - Professor of History, Executive Board: Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Editor of Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad; Tagus Press Series Co-Editor: Classic Histories from the Portuguese-Speaking World in Translation
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| Black Maritime History Spotlight: Venture Smith
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Photo courtesy of Kentake Page
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In honor of Black History Month, we highlight the life of Venture Smith, a Guinean man enslaved in Stonington in the mid-1700s, whose autobiographical account is one of the earliest firsthand accounts of slavery in American history, detailing both hardship and brutality, and his perseverance in gaining freedom for himself and his family.
Smith's account is read and discussed in WM’s American Maritime History class, taught by Dr. Sofia Zepeda, demonstrating how he and others who shared his fate have contributed to this country’s complex, multi-faceted relationship to the sea. Smith experienced not only the Middle Passage across the Atlantic, but also life aboard a whaling vessel, in New England fishing boats, and sailing from Stonington to Fishers Island and Long Island to find jobs so he could buy his freedom.
His story, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself remains a vital piece of early American and New England history.
Join Williams-Mystic in reading this short and compelling narrative, available at the link below.
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| S23 Offshore Field Seminar Goes Swimmingly
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One week into the semester, the Class of Spring 2023 embarked on an adventure of a lifetime, traveling to St. Croix and becoming crew members aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer. This semester’s Offshore Field Seminar boasted phenomenal weather, countless sea creature sightings, lots of poetry, and a group of intrepid students who carried on WM’s legacy of offshore excellence.
Thank you to Chief Scientist Tim Pusack and the rest of the WM team for leading another unforgettable offshore experience, as well as to the captain, crew, scientists, engineers and stewards aboard Cramer for their continued support.
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| Happy Birthday, Jim Carlton!
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On February 15, Williams-Mystic celebrated the 75th birthday of Marine Ecologist and Director Emeritus Jim Carlton.
While we are happy to celebrate Jim just about every day, his recent birthday gave our team the opportunity to reflect on the decades he has dedicated to our program and the countless lives he has touched in the process. Happy birthday, Jim!
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| This Month's Global Galley Recipe!
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Thank you to Bill Baskin S84 for submitting this month's Global Galley recipe! This recipe comes from a recipe book Bill brought with him to Mystic when he was a student. If you would like your recipe to be shared in a future eGam, please fill out the form below!
Beef Stroganoff
To 1 lb of browned beef add:
½ cup sour cream
1 T parsley
1 t sugar
1 T prepared mustard
Onion
Green peppers
Mushrooms
Stir until hot and serve over noodles.
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Jobs, internships, and other opportunities
Send job opportunities to wmalumni@williams.edu. Please include a link (if available) and specify whether you'd like us to include your name if we share the opportunity in our next eGam. You can also share job opportunities directly with the W-M community by posting on our Facebook and/or LinkedIn groups!
We've gathered the jobs below from a variety of sources -- some from web searches, and some from members of the W-M community.
Jobs
- Educator, Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT
- Dock Attendant, Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT
- Oyster Hatchery Research Technician, A.I.S., Inc. (AIS), Milford, CT
- Payroll Implementation Specialist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, MA
- Program Manager, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, MA
- Coastal and Ocean Policy Specialist, The Natural Heritage Trust, Albany, NY
- Manager, Educational Programs, Environmental Law Institute (ELI), Washington, DC
- Director, Communications, Environmental Law Institute (ELI), Washington, DC
- Fisheries Technician, Environmental Consulting Services, Inc., Delaware
- Consultant, Restore America's Estuaries, Arlington, VA
- Science and Grant Writer, Marine Applied Research and Exploration (MARE), Tiburon, CA (Remote)
- Marketing Manager, WILDCOAST, San Diego, CA
- Water Quality Outreach Specialist, Washington Department of Ecology, Lacey, WA
- Communications & Outreach Specialist, Maritime Washington National Heritage Area, Washington State
- Senior Communications Manager, Fisheries and Oceans, The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Remote - US (Remote)
Internships, Fellowships, and Postdocs
- Summer 2023 Internships, Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT
- Fisheries Leadership Internship Program, Cape Cod Commercial Fisherman's Alliance, Chatham, MA
- Songbird Banding Intern, Manomet, Manomet, MA
- Postdoctoral Research Scientist in single-cell genome-to-phenome studies, Bigelow Laboratory, East Boothbay, ME
- Seabird Ecology and Conservation Internship, Shoals Marine Laboratory, Appledore Island, ME
- Eastern Long Island Chapter 2023 Summer Intern, The Surfrider Foundation, Remote
- Summer DEI Intern, Howard County Conservancy, Woodstock, MD
- Student Trainee Physical Science Tech, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St. Petersburg, FL
- Student Trainee Physical Science Tech, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, Remote
- Ocean Surface Topography and Eddy Dynamics Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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