Margaret Leshikar-Denton

Margaret E. "Peggy" Leshikar-Denton is an archaeologist specialising in underwater archaeology, and director of the Cayman Islands National Museum.[1]

Education

Leshikar-Denton has a B.F.A. and an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin[2] and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University where her thesis was on the Wreck of the Ten Sail, a 1794 shipwreck off Cayman.[3] Her thesis title was "The 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail, Cayman Islands, British West Indies: A Historical Study and Archaeological Survey".[4]

Career

Leshikar-Denton was appointed as director of the Cayman Islands National Museum in 2011, having first been appointed to a post in the museum in 1986. She has worked on archaeological sites in countries including Mexico, Spain, Jamaica, Turks and Caicos and Turkey.[3][2] She is a research associate of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) at Texas A&M University.[5]

She contributed the chapter "Caribbean Maritime Archaeology" to the Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology.

In 1998 and 1999, she was the UNESCO representative at meetings of the Latin American and Caribbean Technical Commission on Underwater Cultural Heritage, and in 2001, she worked on the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage as a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites delegation.[3]

She is a past secretary of the International Committee on Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH) of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and represents the Cayman Islands on the committee.[6][2]

Recognition

In 2016 she was awarded the Society for Historical Archaeology's award of merit for her work on the protection of underwater cultural heritage.[7][8]

Personal life

She has lived in the Cayman Islands since 1986, having first visited in 1980 with a team from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) at Texas A&M University.[3][5]

Selected publications

• Leshikar-Denton, Margaret E. (2020). Cayman's 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail : peace, war, and peril in the Caribbean. Tuscaloosa. ISBN 9780817359652.[9][10]
• Leshikar-Denton, Margaret E.; Luna Erreguerena, Pilar, eds. (2016). Underwater and maritime archaeology in Latin American and the Caribbean. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781315416083.[11]
• Leshikar-Denton, Margaret (2014). "Caribbean Maritime Archaeology". In Ford, Ben; Hamilton, Donny L.; Catsambis, Alexis (eds.). The Oxford handbook of maritime archaeology. New York. ISBN 9780199705153.

References

1. "Museum Staff". cimuseum. Cayman Islands National Museum. Retrieved 1 May 2022. Dr. Peggy Leshikar-Denton
2. "Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton (Peggy)". Members. ICOMOS International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
3. Winker, Carol (14 October 2011). "New director has a history with Cayman's National Museum". Cayman Compass. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
4. Leshikar-Denton, Margaret E. (December 1993). "The 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail, Cayman Islands, British West Indies : a historical study and archaeological survey". Texas A&M University Libraries. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
5. "Research Associates". Institute of Nautical Archaeology. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
6. "Seasoned archaeologist takes museum top job". Cayman News. 13 October 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
7. "Awards and Prizes". Society for Historical Archaeology. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
8. "SHA Award of Merit". Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology. 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
9. Harris, Lynn B. (June 2021). "Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton. 2020. Cayman's 1794: Wreck of the Ten Sail: peace, war, and peril in the Caribbean". Antiquity. 95 (381): 839–841. doi:10.15184/aqy.2021.52. S2CID 236356764.
10. Guibert, Jean-Sebastien (2 January 2021). "Cayman's 1794 Wrecks of the 'Ten Sail'. Peace, War and Peril in the Caribbean: by Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton". International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. 50 (1): 228–230. doi:10.1080/10572414.2021.1942723. S2CID 239713062.
11. Castro, Filipe (1 July 2010). "Underwater and Maritime Archaeology in Latin America and the Caribbean. Margaret Leshikar-Denton , Pilar Luna Erreguerena". Journal of Anthropological Research. 66 (2): 287–289. doi:10.1086/jar.66.2.27820904. ISSN 0091-7710.