About Cori:

Dr. Cori Convertito earned her Ph.D. in Maritime History from the University of Exeter, where she examined The Health of British Seamen in the West Indies, 1770–1806, a study exploring British West Indies development and its influence on health and medicine in the Royal Navy. Her dissertation was awarded the Boydell & Brewer Prize for the best doctoral thesis in maritime history for 2011–12. She previously completed her Master’s degree in Maritime History at the Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich (2006), producing a dissertation titled Tattooing in the Victorian Navy.

Cori has published in several scholarly and public history outlets and has presented her research at numerous international conferences, including the U.S. Naval Academy’s McMullen Naval History Symposium, Navy & Nation at the National Maritime Museum (UK), and Health, Medicine and Mariners at the University of Exeter.

She currently serves as Curator & Historian for the Key West Art & Historical Society, which operates four distinct and dynamic museums, and is also an adjunct instructor of American History and Humanities at The College of the Florida Keys.