About Professor Claire Jowitt
Claire Jowitt is Principal Investigator on The Gloucester Project and a Trustee of The Gloucester 1682 Trust. She is Professor of Renaissance Studies and joined the University of East Anglia in 2015 as Associate Dean for Research for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, serving in that position until 2022. She has published seven books and more than fifty essays and chapters on maritime history and culture and travel writing studies.
