James E Bruseth Author & Editor

James E. Bruseth, guest curator and catalogue editor, is the former director of the archaeology division at the Texas Historical Commission, USA, which sponsored the excavation of La Belle. Bruseth directed the excavation and serves as the project’s principal investigator. He is coauthor of From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle’s Shipwreck, La Belle (Texas A&M University Press, 2005).