Dr. Lucy Semaan is the Lead Maritime Archaeologist of the Honor Frost Foundation (HFF) in Lebanon and Manager of the Foundation’s Lebanon team. She is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of History and Archaeology at the American University of Beirut (AUB), where she teaches within the Minor in Marine Sciences and Culture (MSCU) program.

Dr. Semaan is a member of the International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH), a scientific committee of ICOMOS, and serves on the HFF Steering Committee on Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH).

Since 2019, she has led the HFF Maritime Archaeology Rescue Team in Lebanon and has supported the Foundation’s capacity-building initiatives in the country since their inception. She has participated in and managed numerous archaeological projects across Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Cyprus, and Saudi Arabia.

Her research interests include maritime cultural landscapes and seascapes; coastal and underwater geomorphology; capacity building; rescue archaeology; archaeology in conflict zones; maritime ethnography; and traditional wooden boatbuilding.