Will Nassif

Will was born in Durham, NC and spent most of his childhood between there and Raleigh. He received a B.A. in History with a minor in Accounting from Appalachian State University. After college, he returned to the Triangle and taught at Athens Drive High School for two years, where he also coached the school’s football and lacrosse teams. Building on his childhood love of North Carolina’s rivers and coastline, he returned to higher education and earned his M.A. in East Carolina University’s Program in Maritime Studies. While there, he worked on archaeological surveys in the Tar/Pamlico River system, investigated shipwreck sites off the NC coast, recorded submerged military equipment in the Marshall Islands, and conducted terrestrial surveys on the Outer Banks.

Most recently, Will worked for the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology as an underwater archaeologist. He worked on several projects there including two offshore remote sensing projects searching for sixteenth and seventeenth-century shipwrecks, an excavation of paleontological remains, the excavation of the Union blockader USS Housatonic, and aerial photogrammetry of intertidal wrecks on the Ashley and Cooper Rivers. Will joined the UAB team in 2024.