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Lillian G. Azevedo

Biography

The sites that interest Lillian Azevedo-Grout normally lie dozens of feet below the ocean surface. During an internship with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, she spent eight weeks in Galveston Bay excavating the Denbigh, a 19th-century Civil War Blockade Runner. She recalls, "Despite difficult conditions, including fire ants, mosquitoes, broken boats, parasites, and visibility that averaged less than six inches, I have never been happier."

Lillian started a scuba club at the University of the South, where - to aid her future archaeological work - she was also captain of the crew team and student of French and Latin. Fascinated by underwater archaeology, she explored the terrestrial version as well, excavating in the French Cevennes and exploring Civil War sites in Pennsylvania. Lillian graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude.

Lillian met and married her British husband while they were both teaching scuba diving in Key Largo. Lillian looks forward to moving to his home country and continuing her studies at the University of Southampton. She will focus on heritage management, hoping one day to improve American and British practices for managing underwater resources, especially those with historic value. "I have seen divers pry off souvenirs from shipwrecks," she says, "and 200-year-old artifacts disintegrating in the front yards of Florida residents." Her goal is to "discover sites that will change the way we understand history and to involve the public in preservation."

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