Anna Holloway

Curator
The Mariners' Museum
USS Monitor Center
100 Museum Drive
Newport News VA
23606 USA
http://www.mariner.org

Anna Gibson Holloway is the Curator of the USS Monitor Center at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, VA where she has also worked in the past as Director of Education and Interpretation, and Resident Pirate. She was previously Manager of School Tour Programs for the Chrysler Museum of Art and Historic Houses in Norfolk, VA and has also worked for Jamestown Settlement as part of the crew of the Susan Constant and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where she was a puppeteer and understudy fire eater. She is currently completing work on her dissertation, Seasickness, Seaworthiness and Song: Life on English Ships, 1550-1700 for the Department of History at the College of William and Mary. This Winston-Salem native graduated from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro with baccalaureate degrees in English Literature and Medieval Civilization. She received her Masters degree in Tudor/Stuart History from the College of William and Mary. She really wanted to be a rock star when she grew up, but thought better of it.

Anna will demonstrate The USS Monitor Center Web Site.