Akeia de Barros Gomes

Akeia de Barros Gomes, Ph.D., is the Director of the Edward W. Kane and Martha J. Wallace Center for Black History at the Newport Historical Society. She is a Visiting Scholar & Adjunct Lecturer at The Ruth J. Simmons Center for Slavery and Justice, Brown University. At Mystic Seaport Museum she served as Senior Curator of Maritime Social Histories, Vice Pres. American Institute for Maritime Studies, and Dir. of Munson Institute. As an anthropologist and archaeologist her research has been extensive on many continents.