Dr Grace Turner
Chief Archaeologist and Research Officer, The Antiquities, Monuments & Museum Corporation, Nassau, The Bahamas.
Grace Turner has research interests in the history and culture of The Bahamas and the Caribbean. She worked for a time in the Museum & Archaeology Section of the Department of Archives in Nassau. She is currently with the Antiquities, Monuments & Museum Corporation in Nassau. This government corporation is responsible for promoting and enhancing the presentation and understanding of Bahamian history and heritage.
She has extensive academic training and years of experience in the study of Bahamian history, heritage and culture. She is the first Bahamian to venture into the discipline of archaeology, both on land and underwater. She now has the opportunity to impact the training of a new generation of Bahamian archaeologists, historians, and museum professionals.
Grace is editor of the Journal of the Bahamas Historical Society. She has published several articles on Bahamian history in the Journal of the Bahamas Historical Society and the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. Her book, Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space: The Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century African-Bahamian Cemetery was published in November 2017 by the University Press of Florida. The research for this book is based on the excavation of a forgotten cemetery site in Nassau, which was the project for her doctoral dissertation.
