Sara Rich

Associate Professor

Sara A. Rich is a citizen of the Waccamaw Indian People and a maritime archaeologist, art historian, artist, and author of speculative fiction. Sara teaches courses on anti-colonialism, sci-art, shipwrecks, and prehistoric and Indigenous arts and cultures. Her recent scholarship includes essays in Frontiers in Environmental ArchaeologyJournal of Aesthetic EducationJournal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismHeritage and Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology (which she also co-edited). Her most recent books include Mushroom (in the Bloomsbury series Object Lessons) and Shipwreck Hauntography: Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny (in the Amsterdam University Press series Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800).

Academic areas of interest

Maritime archaeology, multispecies architecture, ecological humanities, Indigenous studies, speculative realism