Dr. Costa is presently Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy at Clinch Valley College in Wise, Virginia. He is a 1991 graduate of the College of William and Mary, where he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the merchants of colonial Norfolk, Virginia.
Before he entered graduate school, he worked as a research associate at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum in Norfolk.
He has published articles and reviews in the history of
Norfolk, Virginia history, and naval and maritime history. His
most recent article, published in the JOURNAL OF THE
APPALACHIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION, is titled "Connecting
Appalachia: Recent Work in Early American History and its
Relevance to Appalachia." In addition to his duties connected
with H-Local, he is now researching the
early European settlement of southwest Virginia.
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