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Jessica Herlich

Email:: [[jmherlich]]
Year Entered:: 2009
Degree sought:: MA / PhD
Research Interests:: Historical Archaeology, Native American studies, ceramics, Middle Woodland period
Regional Specialization:: Eastern North America, Virginia

Background
Jessica graduated from Cornell University in 2008 with majors in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History and a concentration in American Indian Studies.  As an undergraduate, she conducted research on a copper-alloy assemblage and a glass bead assemblage from a Seneca Iroquois site.  She is currently studying ceramics excavated from a shell midden and researching traditions, social practice, and gender relations in a Middle Woodland context for her Masters' thesis.