Stuart M. Frank

Stuart Frank originated the sea chantey program at Mystic Seaport Museum in 1972, and was subsequently Research Associate in the Education Department there for seven years.  He is a graduate of Wesleyan and Yale Universities and the Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, has taught philosophy at the Universities of Bridgeport and New Haven, and currently teaches literature in the Williams College Program in Maritime Studies at Mystic, and the American Civilization Program at Brown University, where he is a Ph.D. candidate.  An inveterate collector of musical instruments, he has performed and lectured extensively in the traditional music field, at museums, colleges and universities, on national and international television, and in various folk festivals on the East and West coasts.

Stuart M. Frank is a prolific author, with over 19 maritime-themed books published.

Dr. Stuart M. Frank is Senior Curator at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Executive Director Emeritus of the Kendall Whaling Museum, and Founder/Director of the Scrimshaw Forensics Laboratory. A native of New York City, he was educated at Wesleyan, Yale, and Brown, and is the author of books on maritime songs as well as on scrimshaw and the art of whaling. With his wife, Dr. Mary Malloy, he has performed concert tours on four continents, presenting traditional sailors’ songs and ballads excavated from shipboard manuscripts in the New Bedford Whaling Museum collection.

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