Dr. Dan Finamore Maritime Arts and History Curator Daniel Finamore is the Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History at the Peabody Essex Museum, where he has organized more than fifteen museum exhibitions. He lectures internationally on the art, artifacts and history of the maritime world and appears regularly in maritime-related television documentaries and news shows. Mr. Finamore holds degrees from Vassar College and Boston University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1994. He was awarded a prize from the Society of American Archaeology for an outstanding dissertation. He writes frequently for academic journals and popular magazines, and is the author of Capturing Poseidon: Photographic Encounters with the Sea, Rendezvous with the Sea: The Glory of the French Maritime Tradition, and editor of Maritime History as World History (forthcoming in 2004). He serves on the executive committee of the International Congress of Maritime Museums as well as the U.S. National Committee of the Census of Marine Life.