Wendy van Duivenvoorde is an archaeologist specialized in shipwreck archaeology. Most of her current research is focused on maritime trade and shipbuilding in the ancient Mediterranean and Northern Europe. She started her archaeological education in 1992 at the University of Amsterdam.

Wendy participated in shipwreck surveys and excavations in Italy, Turkey, and Sri Lanka and over the last six years, also assist-directed the post-excavation research of the Late Bronze Age shipwreck (1325 B.C.) excavated of Uluburun in Turkey by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology.

Her M.A. in Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of Amsterdam and her interest in shipwreck archaeology and wooden shipbuilding led Wendy to continue her education and research. She was awarded a Fulbright Grant, Nuffic Talenten Program Grant, and several additional fellowships from 2000 onwards that enabled her to pursue a Ph.D. degree in the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University.

Wendy’s research of the Batavia shipwreck is primarily based upon the existing hull remains, now in the Shipwreck Galleries of the Western Australian Maritime Museum, although contemporary archival and other archaeological shipwrecks are used for comparison. The Batavia timber study is the basis of her Ph.D. dissertation on late 16th and early 17th century construction methods of Dutch ships of exploration and Indiamen.

For the Batavia shipwreck research alone, Wendy was awarded 15 grants and fellowships to date. They include a Marion C. Cook Fellowship (Texas A&M University), Carolus Magnus Fonds Grant (Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds), Marine Archaeology Committee Scholarship (Marine Technological Society), AUF Liberal Arts Meritorious Graduate Student Tuition Fellowship (Texas A&M University), Research and Presentation Grant (Association of Former Students and the Office of Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University), College Liberal Arts Dissertation Research Award (Texas A&M University), Institute of Nautical Archaeology Scholarship (Texas A&M University), Nautical Archaeology Program Research Grant (Texas A&M University), Studiefonds Ketel I Grant, Student Research Week Award (Texas A&M University), Cushing/Glasscock Graduate Research Award (Texas A&M University), Catharine van Tussenbroek Foundation Grant (VVAO/International Federation for University Women), Jo Kolk Foundation Grant, (VVAO/International Federation for University Women), and a Stichting Fundatie Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude Grant.

An additional research interest comprises ancient ship’s fastenings. Wendy has become a specialist in the study of ship’s fastenings dating to the Greek and Roman periods. She has conducted research on the metal fasteners excavated from ancient Mediterranean merchantmen such as the Tektas Burnu (±440-425 B.C.) and Kyrenia (3rd-century B.C.) shipwrecks. Wendy received a travel grant in April 2006 to study the fasteners excavated from the Kyrenia shipwreck for final publication.