Historians
Historians
There’s the archeologist who spent 16 years directing the excavation of a Viking site in Norway. The traveling professor spending the summer in antiquity sharing sites of ancient Greek commerce. Or the writer who just finished another book on the conquest of the Caribbean.
Lindblad Expeditions staffs explorations of cultural capitals with talented historians who are passionate about sharing the places and people they’ve dedicated their lives to studying. They bring to life regions guests explore by sharing the lore, legends, and a running dialog of on-the-spot commentary. It adds context to every journey, and turns what would otherwise be a string of intriguing days into a holistic narrative that takes guests through time and shows them how and why things are the way they are.
Even in areas as wild as Antarctica and the Arctic, the historical prospective they provide gives a framework to consider mankind’s relationship to both poles today. And combined with the tools for exploration, they give guests an enduring picture of each region. For example, it’s one thing to hear that French explore Jean-BaptisteCharcot brought hundreds of cases of wine with him on his exploratory journey to Antarctica. It’s another to hear it, and then look up at a video monitor to see a video shot beneath the bow of the ship that shows a pile of 100-year-old bottles tossed over the side by Charcot’s crew.
There’s the archeologist who spent 16 years directing the excavation of a Viking site in Norway. The traveling professor spending the summer in antiquity sharing sites of ancient Greek commerce. Or the writer who just finished another book on the conquest of the Caribbean. ...
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Meet our Historians
Historian
Rebecca Ingram
A research associate and archivist with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), Rebecca Ingram has studied ancient Mediterranean seafaring and trade since 2000. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. through the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University. Rebecca spent several years conducting archaeological research in the eastern Mediterranean, primarily Turkey. She has studied and documented a wide range of artifacts, including the 400-year-old Ottoman sultan’s galley, Kadırga, on display in the Istanbul Naval Museum, and glass beads from the Late Bronze Age Uluburun shipwreck, housed in the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology. Between 2005 and 2008, she worked year-round with the INA team at the Theodosian Harbor excavations at Yenikapı in Istanbul, Turkey, a fascinating site yielding 37 Byzantine shipwrecks. Growing up in an Air Force family, Rebecca developed a passion for travel and cultural exchange at a young age. She spent her junior year of high school as an exchange student in Hannover, Germany, and is conversant in German and Turkish. Rebecca’s eclectic experience in recent years includes creating exhibits for a natural history museum, managing museum and archival collections, and editing for an academic journal. As a historian for Lindblad in the Mediterranean, Rebecca looks forward to sharing her unique perspective on the history, archaeology, and culture of this fascinating region.
Historian
Josh Peck
A native Falkland Islander, Josh has always been fascinated by the natural world and exploring new destinations. Growing up in the wildlife haven of the Falklands - with the polar regions on his doorstep - Josh has spent most of his life living alongside penguins, seals and whales, most recently in South Georgia where he was based for 4 months working for the Government of South Georgia. Josh is used to living and working in remote locations and on isolated islands, travelling and working extensively around the world from the USA and Canada to Iceland, Zambia and Poland. Following on from obtaining degrees in History and Politics in Bristol and London in the United Kingdom, Josh returned home to the Falkland Islands to pursue his passion for wildlife and wild places, co-founding a local tour company with two childhood friends in 2016. Focusing on nature and historical tours, Josh worked for the following four seasons guiding and sharing his love of his home with the many guests that visited. An avid photographer and an international footballer (soccer), he is always looking for new experiences and places to visit to broaden his horizons and is looking forward to the next adventures with Lindblad Expeditions.
Historian
Gerard Baker
Gerard Baker is a BBC presenter and documentary maker, having made more than 30 radio and television documentaries in the past 25 years from Antarctica to the Himalaya. A renowned author, Gerard has published 15 books on subjects as wide as beekeeping to books for the Great British Bake Off. As a historian, he shares his love of the destinations we travel to with passion and clarity. As a naturalist with degrees in Botany, Zoology and Environmental Management, he also shares a love of the natural world and is well placed to interpret on shore within all the zones in which we travel. Gerard has spent more than 4000 nights on the Antarctic continent as a multiple winterer, working in logistics and conservation. When at home, he keeps bees and breeds fox red Labradors.
Historian
Tom Heffernan
Tom, a native of New York City, who has had a life-long passion for travel and exploration, is the Kenneth Curry Professor of Humanities at the University of Tennessee and the founding Director of the university’s Humanities Center. His areas of interest are anthropology of religions and historical linguistics. Tom’s BA is from Manhattan College and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. His Ph.D. studies were on Latin church histories and ancient Greek biography. Tom did post-doctoral work at Harvard University in the study of ancient manuscripts. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters LHD ( honoris causa ) from Manhattan College in 2008. Tom has taught in the U.S. and Europe. He has received numerous fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of sixty essays and six books. His most recent a study of the conflict between the Roman state and early Christianity, The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, for which he received the prestigious Modern Language Association Prize for best Scholarly Edition for 2013. Tom has received the Alumni Outstanding Teaching Citation by the University of Tennessee, and the Alexander Prize in 2012, the most significant research and teaching award presented by the University. Tom teaches every summer at Cambridge University which also allows him access to English and European archives. He has appeared on National Public Radio and local television. Tom is married and has a daughter. He has worked with Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic since 1991 and has loved every minute of it.
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