Faye Kert - Privateers During the War of 1812

A conversation with Faye Kert around the presence and impact of Privateers during the War of 1812.This topic rarely gets much discussion but was in fact a significant part of the naval activity during the war!Her book can be found at: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/authors/faye-m-kert?srsltid=AfmBOorrVerU9xt4QNqe__JFv6Wr1Zo_0rXZH_l2vfJTs-zfp3ffzC0HFaye Kert graduated from Queen’s with a BA in History. She has worked in communications for the Canadian Museum of Civilization (now the Canadian Museum of History) and the Canadian War Museum. She also spent three summers working for Parks Canada as an underwater archaeologist on a 16th –century Basque whaling ship in Red Bay, Labrador. Other archaeological work included excavating Hollandia, an 18th-century Dutch East India Company ship in the Scilly Islands (1977) and the Mary Rose, a 16th- century warship owned by Henry VIII, sunk off Portsmouth in the UK (1981). Her Master’s work was completed at Carleton University and examined Canada’s Atlantic privateers and their little-known contribution to the War of 1812. This was followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 1997. She has published a number of articles, book chapters and books. Her latest book was published in 2015 by Johns Hopkins University Press. Privateering: Patriots and Profits in the War of 1812 is an analysis of the little-known world of Canadian and American privateering and looks at the war from the privateers’ perspective. Recorded on March 9 ,2026