Faculty Records: Tim Runyan Papers

1980-2008
University Archives #UA90-59
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1.0 Cubic Feet
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[Item description]. Tim Runyan Papers. UA90-76, Box [number]. University Archives, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
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East Carolina University Archives
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This collection contains administrative files, correspondence, project proposals, archaeological reports, newspaper clippings and press releases, and photographs.

Biographical/historical information

Timothy Runyan was born August 9th, 1941 in Gary, Indiana. He received his undergraduate degree from Capital University in 1963 and Master's and Ph.D. from University of Maryland in 1965 and 1971 respectively. He served as Director of the graduate program in Maritime History at East Carolina University between 1997 and 2004. Between 2007 and 2011, he worked as manager of the Maritime Heritage Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), working to preserve and support historic sites and museums across the country to educate Americans on their maritime history. Runyan's was a founder of the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland and was chair of the National Maritime Alliance. For his contributions to the North American Society for Oceanic History, he was awarded the K. Jack Bauer award. In addition, Runyan published multiple scholarly articles and books. He retired from ECU in 2018 with Professor Emeritus. He died on January 8, 2025.

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This collection contains administrative files, correspondence, project proposals, archaeological reports, newspaper clippings and press releases, and photographs.

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Container list
Box 1 Administrative Placement of Maritime Studies, 2001
Box 1 Long Range Goals for Maritime Studies, 1995, Undated
Box 1 Maritime Studies Research Center at Ocracoke, 2005
Box 1 Ocracoke Coast Guard Station Planning Meeting agendas and minutes, 2001, 2003
Box 1 Ocracoke Island Field Week itinerary , 2002
Box 1 Search for the USS Alligator - Final Cruise Instructions, 2004
Box 1 University of North Carolina Coastal Institute, Academic Community Meeting agenda, 2003
Box 1 Correspondence, 1980-1983, 1991-1992
Box 1 Correspondence, 1994-2000
Box 1 Correspondence , 2001-2007
Box 1 Correspondence, Anguilla Project, 1996-1997
Box 1 Correspondence, Kad'yak Project, 2002-2006
Box 1 Correspondence, Ocracoke Coast Guard Station Project, 1997-1999
Box 1 Correspondence, Ocracoke Coast Guard Station Project, 2000-2004
Box 1 Correspondence, Ocracoke Coast Guard Station Project, 2005
Box 1 Center for Integrative Coastal Studies proposal, 2003
Box 1 Center for Understanding Coastal Change proposal, 2003
Box 1 Endowed Professorship in Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology proposal, undated
Box 1 Kad'yak Project proposal, 2003
Box 1 Ocracoke Coast Guard Station proposals, 1997, 2003
Box 1 Ocracoke Remote Sensing Survey Proposal, 2001, 2004, 2006
Box 1 University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Center proposals, 2000
Box 1 University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute Maritime Heritage proposal, 2006
Box 2 Exploring the Russian-American Company Shipwreck Kad'yak, 2005
Box 2 Hunt for the USS Alligator: 2004 Remote Sensing Report, 2004
Box 2 Hunt for the USS Alligator: 2005 Thomas Jefferson Survey, 2005
Box 2 Ocracoke Remote Sensing Survey Report, 2004
Box 2 Ocracoke Shipwreck Database and Remote Sensing Survey, 2005
Box 2 Ocracoke Shipwreck Database and Remote Sensing Survey - Appendices, 2005
Box 2 Search for the Confederate Submarine. H.L. Hunley off Charleston Harbor, South Carolina final report, 1995
Box 2 ECU News Bureau press releases, 2004
Box 2 Newspaper clippings, 1998-2006
Box 2 Ocracoke Photographs, 1998
Box 2 Ocracoke Photographs, 2001
Box 2 Ocracoke Photographs, 2002-2004
Box 2 Ocracoke and USS Alligator Photographs, undated
Box 2 Unlabeled 3.5" floppy disk , undated