Darrin Lowery, Ph.D. was raised on Tilghman Island and comes from a family of Maryland boat builders, watermen, and farmers. His interest in history, archaeology, and geology began at the age of seven, while exploring the eroding shorelines of the Chesapeake Bay with his father. Lowery graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA degree in Anthropology from the University of Delaware. He was awarded a MA degree in Archaeology/Anthropology from Temple University in 2001 and completed the coursework for a Ph.D. degree in the same field. In order to more completely understand the context of the early cultures living along the dynamic Chesapeake Bay, he pursued and completed a Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Delaware specializing in coastal geology and geoarchaeology. He was awarded a pre-doctoral research fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Natural History and was appointed as a research collaborator in 2010 within the Department of Anthropology, where he was later awarded a post-doctoral fellowship to serve as a research associate. Lowery has conducted extensive archaeological surveys and excavations in Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia over the past 35 years. While conducting this research, he has documented over 2,000 archaeological sites spanning the entire region’s prehistory and history. He began writing about Chesapeake Bay archaeology and geology before entering college and has continued with over one hundred published monographs, book chapters, and articles. He currently works for a federal agency as a geologist and historic resource specialist.
