Ingo Heidbrink

DepartmentOrganizationEmailPhoneAddressNorfolk , Virginia 23505United StatesBioIngo Heidbrink (born 1968) is Professor of Maritime History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. After having studied social and economic history at the University of Hamburg, he has worked with various maritime museums in Germany and has been head of the department of fisheries and whaling history at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven up to his move to the US.

He has taught at the University of Bremen, was a co-founder of the Bremen International Graduate School for Marine Sciences, guest lecturer at the Ilisimatusarfik, the University of Greenland, and research fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Sciences, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, and the Loewe Research Focus for Juridical and Extra-Juridical Conflict Resolution.

He is Secretary General of the International Commission of Maritime History and Co-President of the North Atlantic Fisheries History Association. His main research areas are fisheries and whaling history, the history of commercial activities in the Arctic and Antarctic, US-Greenlandic history and the history of international conflicts related to resource exploitation of Arctic and Antarctic regions.

His list of publications include four monographs, more than ten edited books, close to an hundred scholarly papers and contributions to popular history projects, and a comparable number of papers presented at scholarly conferences and meetings on all continents.

Science Specialties

fisheries management, history, history of polar research

Current Research

US-Greenland history 19c and 20c, fisheries and whaling history of Arctic regions, international maritime conflicts in the Arctic, history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration.