Jessica is an anthropological archaeologist with specializations in geospatial studies and modelling and simulation. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Florida and her graduate degree from Florida Atlantic University. Her fieldwork has taken her to Turkey and across the US. Before coming to UCF for doctoral studies, Jessica worked for the U.S. Army and the state of Texas, curating archaeology collections at Fort Benning Military Installation and for the Texas Historical Commission, respectively. With training in both terrestrial archaeology and emergency heritage response, she has worked with local, state, and federal governments, as well as military officials, to identify and stabilize at-risk heritage sites.<\/p>\n
Jessica’s PhD focused on social organization and connectivity in ancient urban landscapes. She was a UCF Multidisciplinary Doctoral Fellow, a part of the Kerkenes Project, the Chronopoints lab, the DATCH project, and has served as an intern with the Department of State and the U.S. Embassy to Libya, working as a Libya Cultural Heritage Virtual Advisor.<\/p>\n
Areas of Research\/Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n Social Organization, connectivity in ancient urban landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica is an anthropological archaeologist with specializations in geospatial studies and modelling and simulation. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Florida and her graduate degree from Florida Atlantic University. Her fieldwork has taken her to Turkey and across the US. Before coming to UCF for doctoral studies, Jessica worked for the U.S. […]","protected":false},"featured_media":4510,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_people_group":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"people_group":[50],"class_list":["post-4509","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","people_group-graduated-phdstudents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/4509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/4509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6970,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/4509\/revisions\/6970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"people_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people_group?post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}