Although film portrays pirates as mostly male, many female pirates sailed the seven seas. Learn more about these fearsome females with Christine Brin, Associate Education Curator at the Maritime Museum of Beaufort.
Brin is an experienced museum educator, maritime historian, and public speaker with more than 15 years of experience in the museum education field. She holds a special interest in the Golden Age of Piracy and in women’s history. Christine earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Montclair State University and a master’s in history from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Highlights of her career include working on Mayflower II as an interpreter, coordinating the N.C. Maritime Museum’s annual Murder Mystery Dinners and engaging the many groups who visit the museum every year.