Curriculum Vitae

Jessi J Halligan

November 20, 2022

General Information

University address:	Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
2010:104-Anthropology 0100
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-7772

E-mail address:	jhalligan@fsu.edu

Web site:	https://sites.google.com/view/jessi-j-halligan/home

Professional Preparation

2012	Ph.D., Texas A&M University. Major: Anthropology. Archaeology. Supervisor: Michael R. Waters. 

Halligan, Jessi Jean. (2012). Geoarchaeological Investigations into Paleoindian Adaptations on the Aucilla River, Florida. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-11002. 

2000	A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge MA. Major: Anthropology. Archaeology. Supervisor: Elizabeth Chilton. magna cum laude. 

Professional Experience

2016–present	Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Florida State University. 

2014–2015	Assistant Professor, Sociology and Archaeology, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. 

2012–2013	Post-Doctoral Researcher, Anthropology, Texas A&M University. 

Honors, Awards, and Prizes

Rising Scholar Award, Southeastern Archaeology Conference (2022). 
Senior Archaeology, National Science Foundation (2022). ($244,099). 
University Undergraduate Teaching Award Nominee, Florida State University (2020). 
Finalist: National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), National Science Foundation (2019). 
University Graduate Teaching Award Nominee, Florida State University (2019). 
First Year Assistant Professor Award, Florida State University (2016). ($20,000). 

Current Membership in Professional Organizations

American Academy of Underwater Sciences 
American Quaternary Association 
Register of Professional Archaeologists 
Society for American Archaeology 
Society for Historical Archaeology 
Southeastern Archaeology Conference 

Teaching

Courses Taught

Directed Individual Study (ANG5906)
Fundamentals of Archaeology (ANT3101)
Geoarchaeology (ANG6119)
Principles of Geoarchaeology (ANT4118)
First Americans Archaeology (ANG5115)
First Americans Archaeology (ANT4930)
Fundamentals of Underwater Archaeology (ANG5130)
Hunters & Gatherers (ANT4930)
Introduction to Underwater Archaeology (ANT3133)
Underwater Archaeology (ANG5115)
Directed Individual Study (ANG5905)
Techniques of Underwater Site Research (ANT4834)
Underwater Archaeological Methods (ANG5835)
Artifact Analysis (ANT4188)
Seminar in Archaeology (ANG5193)
Core Seminar - Archaeology (ANG5117)
North American Archaeology (ANT4153)
Forager Societies (ANG5111)
Honors Work (HUM4907)
Analysis and Interpretation of Archaeological Research (ANG5194)
Aucilla River Geoarch (ANT4914)
Directed Independent Study (ANT4907)
Regional Analysis in Archaeology (ANG5116)
SAA Research (ANG5906)
Introduction to Archaeology (ANT2100)
Anthropological Fieldwork: Archaeology (ANT4824)
UW Archaeological Research (ANT4907)
Geoarchaeology (ANG5115)
Geoarchaeology (ANT4930)
Hunters & Gatherers (ANG5115)
Underwater Archeology (ANT4133)

New Course Development

Archaeology of the First Americans (2018)
First Americans Archaeology (2018)
Fundamentals of Underwater Archaeology (2018)
Lithic Analysis (2018)
North American Archaeology (2018)
North American Archaeology (2018)
Stone tool analysis (2018)
Geoarchaeology (2017)
Anthropological fieldwork: Archaeology (UW field school) (2017)
Fundamentals of Archaeology (2017)
Geoarchaeology (2017)
Foraging Societies (2016)
Underwater Archaeology (2016)

Doctoral Committee Member

Smith, M., graduate. (2019). Liquid Landscapes: What Underwater Prehistoric Sites in the Lower Southeast Tell Us about Climate Change, the Peopling of the Americas, and the Settlement of a New Continent.  [Graduated from Texas A&M University]
Bentley, N., doctoral student.  Deposit-Centered Investigations of Probable Late Pleistocene Archaeological Sites within the Aucilla River Basin.  [PhD student at Texas A&M University]

Master's Committee Chair

Lyles, B. A., graduate. (2022). Lithic Analysis of Stone Tool Raw Material in Relation to Paleoindian and Early Archaic Settlement Patterns in the Aucilla River Basin. 
Westman, T. M., graduate. (2022). Experiments on the Ability to Remotely Detect Submerged Precontact Archaeological Material Using a Sub-Bottom Profiler. 
Mendez, T., graduate. (2021). Hog Island Spit Site (8LV00087) and Shoreline Mapping to Determine the Effects of Sea Level Rise on Site Destruction. 
Yarbrough, N. H., graduate. (2021). The Geoarchaeology of the Wakulla River Drainage Basin: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Synthesis. 
Soerfass, H. T., graduate. (2021). An Examination of Soil Cores and Environmental Reconstruction of the Pumpkin Key Shell Bearing Site (08CR25) in the Ten-Thousand Island Region of Southwest Florida. 
Hougland, D. E., graduate. (2020). Pre-Contact Line Fishing Techniques along the Aucilla River, Northwest Florida Explored through the Use of Experimental Analysis. 
Wilson, D. A., graduate. (2020). Examining Nomadic Foragers: Stable Isotope Analysis of Megafaunal Materials from Southeast United States Paleoindian Sites. 
Cross, A. F., graduate. (2019). Bolen Projectile Point Use-Life: An Expended Utility Study of Bolen Points from Early Archaic Florida. 
Hollingshead, A. M., graduate. (2019). Geoarchaeological Investigations at Half Mile Rise Sink (8TA98). 
Sabin, J. E., graduate. (2019). Modeling Coastal Adaptation: Human-Environment Interactions in the Big Bend Region, Florida, Through The Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary. 
Joy, S. A., graduate. (2018). The Trouble with the Curve: Reevaluating the Gulf of Mexico Sea-Level Curve. 
Brimm, T. N. Z., student. 
Smith, X. M., student. 
Socha, A. N., student. 
Stevens, C. S., student. 

Master's Committee Member

Gibbs, A. C., graduate. (2022).
Brady, C. J., graduate. (2021).
Skipton, T. N., graduate. (2021).
McLean, E., graduate. (2019).
Terry, S. E., graduate. (2019).
Merrick, M. D., graduate. (2018).
Gamblin, K. E., graduate. (2018).
Ledford, K. L., graduate. (2018).
Fenerty, B., graduate. (2017). [MS Student at University of Indiana]
Burke, A., graduate. (2015). [MS Student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania]
Hoelzer, D. T., student. 
Kinni, N. C., student. 
Wojtala, P. B., student. 

Bachelor's Committee Chair

Bentley, M., graduate. (2020). Geochemical Characterizations of Early Ceramics in the Aucilla Watershed. 
Graumlich, E., graduate. (2020). Gastropod Analysis for Paleoenvironments at Page-Ladson, Florida. 
Bentley, N., graduate. (2019). Hurricane Deposits in the Aucilla River. 
Jones, E., graduate. (2019). Lithic Analysis from Ryan-Harley. 

Supervision of Student Research Not Related to Thesis or Dissertation

Boyland, A. (2019–20). 

Lynch, E. (2019–20). 

Research and Original Creative Work

Program of Research and/or Focus of Original Creative Work

My research is focused upon two separate, but related topics: the archaeology of the First Americans and the geoarchaeology of inundated landscapes. I wish to understand when and how the Americas were first colonized and how these first people lived. However, massive landscape changes have occurred over the past 20,000 years, especially more than 130m of sea level rise that has drowned much of the landscape available to these first peoples, so it is necessary to concurrently research how, when, and where the landscape has changed and where it has been preserved. 

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Halligan, J. J., David K. Thulman, Adam Burke, & Morgan F. Smith. (in press). The Early Holocene Archaeology of Florida: Geospatial Approaches to Understanding Bolen Mobility. Southeastern Archaeology, 41 pages.

Halligan, J. J. (2022). Geoarchaeology Underwater: Preparing Students to Manage Cultural Resources on Submerged Landscapes. Proceedings of the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology, 69-76.

Halligan, J. J. (2022). Submerged Inland Landscapes of the Aucilla Basin, Northwest Florida, USA: Populating the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Landscape. World Archaeology, 1-20. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2022.2077826

Halligan, J. J. (2021). Geoarchaeological framework of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Sites in the Aucilla River Basin, Northwest Florida, USA. Geoarchaeology: an International Journal, 36(2), 213-237. doi:DOI: 10.1002/gea.21826

Halligan, J. J. (2020). Crossing the Waterline: Integrating Terrestrial and Submerged Site Investigations in the Aucilla River, Florida. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 16(1), 46-63. doi:10.1080/15564894.2020.1782541

Perrotti, A. G., Winsborough, B., Halligan, J. J., & Waters, M. (2019). Reconstructing Late Quaternary Environmental Change at Page-Ladson, Florida Using Diatom and Palynological Evidence. Paleoamerica, 6(2), 181-193. doi:10.1080/20555563.2019.1689010

Halligan, J. J., Waters, M. R., Perrotti, A., Owens, I. J., Feinberg, J. M., Bourne, M. D., Fenerty, B., Winsborough, B., Carlson, D., Fisher, D. C., Stafford, T. W., & Dunbar, J. S. (2016). Pre-Clovis occupation 14,550 years ago at the Page-Ladson site, Florida, and the peopling of the Americas. Science Advances, 2(5), 1-6. Retrieved from http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/2/5/e1600375.full.pdf doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600375

Waters, M. R., Forman, S. L., Jennings, T. A., Nordt, L. C., Driese, S. G., Feinberg, J. M., Keene, J. L., Halligan, J., Lindquist, A., Pierson, J., Hallmark, C. T., Collins, M. B., & Wiederhold, J. E. (2011). The Buttermilk Creek complex and the origins of Clovis at the Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas. Science, 331(6024), 1599-1603. Retrieved from http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6024/1599.abstract doi:10.1126/science.1201855

Ford, B., & Halligan, J. (2010). A North American Perspective: Comment on Jonathan Benjamin's 'Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes and Underwater Site Discovery: Reevaluating the 'Danish Model' for International Practice'. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 5(2), 277-279. Retrieved from http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/15564894.2010.506626

Refereed Books

Ford, B., Halligan, J., & Catsambis, A. (2020). Our Blue Planet: An Introduction to Maritime and Underwater Archaeology. Oxford University Press. 

Invited Book Chapters

Smith, M. F., Shawn A. Joy, Jessi J. Halligan, Michael R. Waters, Michael K. Faught, Angelina Perrotti, Brendan Fenerty, Adam M. Burke, & Ryan M. Duggins. (2022). Liquid Landscapes: the Contributions of a New Wave of Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology to the Paleoindian and Early Archaic Record of the Southeastern United States. In D. Shane Miller, Ashley Smallwood, & Jesse Tune (Eds.), The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age (pp. 213-229). University of Alabama Press. 

Halligan, J., & Farr, G. E. (2022). The Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Archaeology of Florida. In D. Shane Miller, Ashley Smallwood, & Jesse Tune (Eds.), The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age (pp. 62-76). University of Alabama Press. 

Halligan, J. (2019). What Does the Future Hold for First Floridian Studies? In D. K. Thulman, & E. G. Garrison (Eds.), Early Floridians: New Directions in the Search for and Interpretation of Florida's Earliest Inhabitants (pp. 41-56). University of Florida Press. 

Halligan, J. (2018). Mysteries of the Ancient Aquifers: Archaeology in Florida's Rivers and Springs. In Roger C. Smith (Ed.), Submerged History: Underwater Archaeology in Florida (pp. 21-38). Pineapple Press. 

Halligan, J. (2013). Reconstructing the Pleistocene Environment of the Greater Southeast. In Gingerich, Joseph A.M. (Ed.), In the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition (pp. 58-74). Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 

Halligan, J. (2011). Lake Ontario Paleoshorelines and Submerged Prehistoric Site Potential in the Great Lakes. In Ford, Ben (Ed.), The Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes (pp. 45-62). Springer New York. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8210-0_3

Invited Encyclopedia Entries

Halligan, J. (in press). Inundated Freshwater Settings. In Allan Gilbert (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology (2nd ed.). Springer. 

Halligan, J. (in press). The Page-Ladson Site, Florida. In Allan Gilbert (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology (2nd ed.). Springer. 

Catsambis, A., Ford, B., & Halligan, J. (2017). Maritime Archaeology. In John Jackson, Jr. (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Halligan, J. (2016). Inundated Freshwater Settings. In Allan Gilbert (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology (p. 441-447). Springer. 

Invited Reviews

Halligan, J. J. (2020). Uncovering Submerged Landscapes :Towards a GIS method for locating submerged archaeology in southeast Alaska. Kelly Rose Bale Monteleone. 2019. BAR Publishing, Oxford. BAR International Series 2917. American Antiquity, 85(3), 620-621.

Halligan, J. (2019). Review of Albert C. Goodyear & Christopher R. Moore (ed.). 2018. Early human life on the southeastern coastal plain. Antiquity, 93(369), 827-828.

Halligan, J. (2019). Review of Harney Flats: A Florida Paleoindian Site by I. Randolph Daniel and Michael Wisenbaker, University Press of Florida, Gainesville. Lithic Technology, 44(1), 52-52. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2019.1565719

Halligan, J. (2018). Review of Plainview: The Enigmatic Paleoindian Artifact Style of the Great Plains. Vance T. Holliday, Eileen Johnson and Ruthann Knudson, editors. 2017. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. American Antiquity, 83(2), 359-360.

Nonrefereed Journal Articles

Halligan, J. J. (in press). Simulating Geoarchaeology Field Situations in the Classroom. The SAA Archaeological Record, 11 pages.

Presentations

Invited Papers at Conferences

Halligan, J. J. (accepted). Crossing the Waterline: Integrating Underwater and Terrestrial Research in the Aucilla River Basin. Paper to be presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Austin, TX. (International). (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2022). Geoarchaeology Underwater: FSU's Approach to Submerged Landscape Research. Paper presented at Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, Philadelphia PA. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2022). Karst Talk: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Land Use in the Aucilla River Basin of Northwest Florida. Paper presented at SAA Annual conference, Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, IL. (International)

Graumlich, E., & Halligan, J. J. (presented 2022). Paleoenvironmental Analysis through Gastropods at the Page-Ladson (8JE591) Inundated Terrestrial Site, Northwest Florida, USA. Paper presented at SAA Annual conference, Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, IL. (International)

Halligan, J. J., & David K. Thulman. (presented 2021). Adapting a drainage-focused model of early Holocene land use to Florida, a karst-dominated environment with vestigial valleys and little elevation or ecological variation. Paper presented at the meeting of Southeastern Archaeology Conference, Durham, NC. (Regional)

Smith, M. F., Halligan, J. J., Joy, S., & Thulman, D. (presented 2021). Submerged Landscape Use in the Early Holocene Southeast: A Perspective from Florida. Paper presented at the meeting of Southeastern Archaeology Conference, Durham, NC. (Regional)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2021). Where Was the Waterline: Integrating Underwater and Terrestrial Research in the Aucilla River Basin. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, remote. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2019). Coastal Paleoindians in the Southeastern US? Envisioning early people on the now-drowned continental shelves. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Albuquerque, NM. (International)

Wilson, D., & Halligan, J. J. (presented 2019). It's the Faunal Countdown! Analysis of Faunal Remains from the 2017 Excavations at the Ryan-Harley Site, Wacissa River, Florida. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Albuquerque, NM. (International)

Halligan, J. J., Perrotti, A., Winsborough, B., & Waters, M. R. (presented 2019). Lessons from the Soil: Multiproxy Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions at Page Ladson, Florida (8JE591) Spanning the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Paper presented at Southeastern Archaeological Conference, SEAC, Jackson, MS. (Regional)

Sabin, J., & Halligan, J. J. (presented 2019). Tides and the Role of 'Big Data': Modeling Paleoindian Land Use and Site Preservation in the Aucilla Basin, Florida. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Albuquerque, NM. (International)

Halligan, J. J., & Spirek, J. (presented 2018). Allendale Underwater: Contributions of the Drowned Savannah River Valley to Paleoindian and Public Archaeology. Paper presented at Southeastern Archaeological Conference, SEAC, Augusta, GA. (Regional)

Waters, M. R., & Halligan, J. J. (presented 2018). Page-Ladson and Submerged Late Pleistocene Sites along the Aucilla River, Florida, and their Importance to First Americans Archaeology. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Washington, DC. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2018). Submerged Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Sites in the Aucilla River Basin, Florida: What Can They Tell Us About Early Cultures We Could Not Learn Elsewhere? Paper presented at Society for Historical and Underwater Archaeology Annual Meeting, SHA, New Orleans, LA. (International)

Halligan, J. J., & Waters, M. R. (presented 2018). Terminal Pleistocene Climate Change and Shifting Paleoindian Landscapes in North Florida. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Washington, DC. (International)

Smith, M. F., Joy, S., Halligan, J. J., Faught, M., & Ryan Duggins. (presented 2017). "Liquid Landscapes" - A New Wave of Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology and its Contributions to the Southeastern Paleoindian and Early Archaic Record. Paper presented at Southeastern Archaeological Conference, SEAC, Tulsa, OK. (Regional)

Halligan, J. J., Owens, I. J., Waters, M. R., Fenerty, B., & Perrotti, A. (presented 2017). Inundated Inland Oases in Northwestern Florida, USA and the Geoarchaeology of the First Americans and Last Megafauna. Paper presented at Lost & Future Worlds: Marine Palaeolandscapes & the Historic Impact of Long-Term Climate Change, Royal Society, Buckinghamshire, UK. (International)

Carlson, D., Perrotti, A., Waters, M. R., & Halligan, J. J. (presented 2017). Modeling Age and Sedimentation Rates at the Page-Ladson Site. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Vancouver, BC. (International)

Halligan, J. J., & Waters, M. R. (presented 2017). Pre-Clovis Archaeology in the Frontiers of Research: Page-Ladson and the Importance of Submerged Sites to Understanding the First Americans. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Vancouver, BC. (International)

Halligan, J. J., Thulman, D. K., & Farr, G. E. (presented 2017). Sodden Sinkholes and Sandy Shorelines: The Paleoindian and Early Archaic of Florida. Paper presented at Southeastern Archaeological Conference, SEAC, Tulsa, OK. (Regional)

Halligan, J. J., & Waters, M. R. (presented 2016). Flooding, Drought, Fires and Extinctions: How Did Florida's Foragers Respond to the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition? Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Orlando, FL. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2016). How Submerged Paleoindian Sites in the Aucilla River of Florida Are Illuminating First Americans Studies. Paper presented at Southeast Symposium on Coastal Plain Archaeology, South Georgia State University, Douglas, GA. (Regional)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2016). Submerged early Archaic sites in the Aucilla River: what can they tell us about paleoenvironments and early cultures? Paper presented at Southeastern Archaeological Conference, SEAC, Athens, GA. (Regional)

Halligan, J. J., Waters, M. R., & Smith, M. F. (presented 2015). Preserved Paleoindian Site Potential and Regional Geological Patterns in Florida's Karst Rivers. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, San Francisco, CA. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2014). Geoarchaeological Interpretations of Reported pre-Clovis Components in the Aucilla River, Florida. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Austin, TX. (International)

Halligan, J. J., Dunbar, J., Fenerty, B., Green, E., & Albertson, J. A. (presented 2013). Submerged Paleoindian Sites in the Aucilla River of Northwestern Florida: New Geoarchaeological and Archaeological Research. Paper presented at Paleoamerican Odyssey, Center for the Study of the First Americans, Santa Fe, NM. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2012). Geoarchaeological framework of the lower Aucilla River basin, northwestern Florida. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Memphis, TN. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2012). Geoarchaeological interpretations of Paleoindian sites in the Aucilla River. Paper presented at Southeastern Archaeological Conference, SEAC, Baton Rouge, LA. (Regional)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2011). New insights into submerged Paleoindian localities in the Aucilla River. Paper presented at Southeastern Archaeological Conference, SEAC, Jacksonville, FL. (Regional)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2011). Site Formation Processes and Paleoindian Artifact Context in Submerged Sinkholes of Northern Florida. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Sacramento, CA. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2010). Preliminary geoarchaeological interpretation of a submerged Paleoindian site in the Aucilla River. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, St. Louis, MO. (International)

Hemmings, C. A., Halligan, J. J., & Adovasio, J. M. (presented 2009). Not Fit for Man Nor Beast: The Inundated Continental Shelf and the Modern Coastal Distribution of Paleoindian and Proboscidean Remains. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Atlanta, GA. (International)

Halligan, J. J., Adovasio, J. M., & Hemmings, C. A. (presented 2009). Preliminary Geoarchaeological Assessment of Remote Sensing Data from the Inner Continental Shelf off the Gulf Coast of Florida. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Atlanta, GA. (International)

Graf, K., Blong, J., Halligan, J. J., Goebel, T., & Bryant, V. (presented 2009). Revisiting Owl Ridge, a Nenana-Complex Site in the Northern Foothills of the Alaska Range. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Atlanta, GA. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2008). Lake Ontario Paleoshorelines and Submerged Prehistoric Site Potential in the Great Lakes. Paper presented at Society for Historical and Underwater Archaeology Annual Meeting, SHA, Albuquerque, NM. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2008). Modeling New England Prehistoric Sites by Comparing Survey Areas to Site Location. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Vancouver, BC. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2007). Geomorphological Analysis of Site Location in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Austin, TX. (International)

Invited Keynote and Plenary Presentations at Symposia

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2022). Geoarchaeology Underwater: How Multiproxy Late Pleistocene Records from Florida's Submerged Sinkholes are Refining Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental Models. Plenary presentation in Shaun Marcott (Chair), American Quaternary Association Biennial Meeting. Symposium conducted at the meeting of American Quaternary Association, Madison, WI. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2021). Dark Waters and Murky Models: Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas from Page-Ladson. Keynote presentation in Todd Surovell (Chair), Frison Institute Annual Lecture. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Frison Institute, University of Wyoming. (National)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2021). Down by the Waterline: Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas from Submerged Landscapes of Northwestern Florida. Plenary presentation in Lisa-Marie Shilito (Chair), Newcastle University Archaeological Science Lecture Series. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Newcastle University, remote. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2020). Perspectives on the peopling of the Americas from Page Ladson and the Debra L. Friedkin sites: When, Where, How? And why do we not know yet? Plenary presentation in Chris Rodning (Chair), Tulane University Archaeological Brown Bag. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Tulane University Department of Anthropology, remote. (Regional)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2019). How the underwater Page-Ladson site fits into peopling of the Americas scenarios. Plenary presentation in D. Foster Hewett Lecture Series. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Department of Geosciences, LeHigh University. (National)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2018). A View from the Blackwater Aucilla: How Florida's Underwater Paleoindian Sites Are Providing Insights into the First Americans. Plenary presentation in Ancient Explorers:  Little Salt Spring and the Peopling of the Americas. Symposium conducted at the meeting of University of Miami, Miami, FL. (State)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2018). Drowned Deserts, Breached Beaches, and Sunken Springs: How sea level rise has impacted what we know about the First Floridians. Keynote presentation in Tidally United Summit. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Florida Public Archaeology Network, Sarasota, FL. (State)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2016). Digging in the Dark: Geoarchaeology of Submerged Paleoindian Sites in Florida. Plenary presentation in Oregon State University Brown Bag Lecture Series. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Oregon State University, Bend, OR. (National)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2016). How the Aucilla River of Florida is Changing First Americans Studies. Keynote presentation in Peopling of the Americas Symposium. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Oregon State Museum, Bend, OR. (National)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2014). New Insights on the First Americans. Keynote presentation in Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center Lithic Materials Workshop. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, La Crosse, WI. (Regional)

Invited Presentations at Conferences

Halligan, J. J. (accepted). Discussant: Teaching and Training in Geoarchaeology: Pedagogical Methods and Curricular Pathways. Presentation to be given at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Austin, TX. (International). (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2021). Discussant: Teaching and Training in Geoarchaeology: Pedagogical Methods and Curricular Pathways. Presentation at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Online only due to COVID-19. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2017). Discussant: Advancements and Prospects in Geoarchaeology Today: The Saa Geoarchaeology Interest Group at 20. Presentation at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Vancouver, BC. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (presented 2016). Discussant: Issues in Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology in The Americas. Presentation at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, SAA, Orlando, FL. (International)

Invited Workshops

Halligan, J. J. (2022). Submerged Paleolandscapes. Workshop delivered at Florida Public Archaeology Network and University of West Florida, Pensacola Florida. (National)

Halligan, J. J. (2019). Marine Paleolandscapes of North America: An Exploratory Workshop. Workshop delivered at National Science Foundation and Oregon State University, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. (International)

Halligan, J. J. (2018). Submerged Prehistory Workshop. Workshop delivered at Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management, New Orleans, LA. (International)

Contracts and Grants

Contracts and Grants Funded

Halligan, Jessi J (PI). (Jul 2022–2024). What Happens When Everything Is in Flux? Exploring the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition and Human Lifeways of the Early Holocene in the Aucilla River Basin. Funded by National Science Foundation. Total award $244,099. 

Jessi J Halligan, & Michael R Waters. (May 2019–Aug 2019). Pre-Clovis Lifeways on the Aucilla River: Geoarchaeological and Paleoenvironmental Investigations. Funded by North Star Research Foundation. Total award $31,000. 

Jessi Halligan, & George Cole. (Aug 2018–Aug 2019). Analysis of LiDAR Bathymetry of Aucilla/Econfina Paleo River Channels for Inundated Archaeological Sites. Funded by Florida Department of State. Total award $50,000. 

Jessi J Halligan, & Michael R Waters. (May 2018–Aug 2018). Pre-Clovis Lifeways on the Aucilla River: Geoarchaeological and Paleoenvironmental Investigations. Funded by North Star Research Foundation. Total award $51,437. 

Halligan, Jessi J (PI). (May 2016–Aug 2016). FYAP: Paleoindians and the Terminal Pleistocene of the Aucilla River Basin: Geoarchaeology of the First Floridians. Funded by FSU CRC. (None). Total award $20,000. 

Halligan, J., & Waters, M. R. (May 2015–May 2016). Geoarchaeological and Archaeological Investigations of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition at the Sloth Hole Site, Florida. Funded by North Star Research Foundation. Total award $30,000. 

Halligan, J., & Waters, M. R. (May 2014–May 2015). Searching for the Sites of the First Americans: Archaeological and Geoarchaeological Exploration of Submerged Sinkhole Sites in Northwest Florida. Funded by North Star Research Foundation. Total award $25,000. 

Halligan, J., & Waters, M. R. (Apr 2014–May 2015). Searching for the Sites of the First Americans: Archaeological and Geoarchaeological Exploration of Submerged Sinkhole Sites in Northwest Florida. Funded by Elfreida Frank Foundation. Total award $25,000. 

Halligan, J. (Apr 2014–Apr 2015). Were People in Florida 14,500 Years Ago? A proposal to conduct geoarchaeological investigations in two submerged sinkhole sites in Northwest Florida. Funded by University of LaCrosse Faculty Research Grant. Total award $15,101. 

Contracts and Grants Denied

Halligan, Jessi J (PI). (Aug 2021). What Happens When Everything Is in Flux? Exploring the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition and Human Lifeways of the Early Holocene in the Aucilla River Basin. Submitted to National Science Foundation. 

Halligan, Jessi J (PI). (Dec 2020). Crossing the Waterline: Integrating Terrestrial and Subaquatic Archaeology in the Aucilla Basin, Florida to Analyze 14,500 Years of Indigenous Land Use in a Dynamic Landscape. Submitted to National Science Foundation. 

Halligan, Jessi J (PI). (Oct 2020). What Lies Beneath: Lake Erie Submerged Landscapes Exploration. Submitted to Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 

Halligan, J. J., Peres, T., Mehta, J., Leppard, T., Thomas, G., Murphy, E., & Pullen, D. (Jul 2020). Research in Isolation: Archaeological Adaptation and Online Technology. Submitted to NEH CARES. 

Halligan, J. J. (Dec 2019). Crossing the Waterline: Integrating Terrestrial and Submerged Site Investigations in the Aucilla River, Florida to Understand 14,500 Years of Indigenous Land Use. Submitted to National Science Foundation. 

Halligan, Jessi J (PI). (Sep 2019). What Lies Beneath: Lake Erie and Submerged Habitation Sites. Submitted to Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 

Halligan, J. J. (Mar 2019). Paleoclimates and the First Floridians: Reconstruction of 15,000 Years of Human/Environment Interactions on Florida's Gulf Coast. Submitted to National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). 

Halligan, Jessi J (PI). (Nov 2018). Paleolandscapes and Maritime History of Lake Erie. Submitted to Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 

Technical Reports

Halligan, J. J. (2022). Pre-Clovis Lifeways on the Aucilla River: Geoarchaeological and Paleoenvironmental Investigations Final Report on excavation from the 2018 and 2019 field seasons in accordance with 1A32 Permit 1718.050. report provided to the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research. 

Halligan, J. J. (2021). Pre-Clovis Lifeways on the Aucilla River:  Geoarchaeological and Paleoenvironmental Investigations  Preliminary report on excavation from the 2018 and 2019 field seasons  in accordance with 1A32 Permit 1718.050. report provided to the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research. 

Halligan, J. J., & Faught, M. K. (2019). Analysis of LiDAR Bathymetry of Aucilla/Econfina Paleo River Channels for  Inundated Archaeological Sites, Apalachee Bay, Florida  Final Report of Investigations for 1A32 1819.032. report provided to the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research. 

Halligan, J. J. (2016). Report for 1A32-1415.060: Investigations of the Pleistocene to Holocene Transition at Sloth Hole (8JE121) and Cypress Hole (8JE1146) in the Aucilla River. report provided to the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research. 

Halligan, J. J. (2016). Searching for the Sites of the First Americans: Archaeological and Geoarchaeological Exploration of Submerged Sinkhole Sites in Northern Florida: Report of Investigations 1A32 1314.069. report provided to the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research. 

Halligan, J. J. (2012). Report of Archaeological Exploration of the Lower Aucilla: Underwater Exploration of the Head of Nutall Rise under BAR permit 1A32-1112.070. report provided to the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research. 

Halligan, J. J. (2011). Preliminary Report of Archaeological Investigations in the Snipe Island Unit of the Big Bend Wildlife Management Area, Florida under BAR permit 1A32-0910.082 as part of Ph.D. Research: Geoarchaeological Investigations into Paleoindian Adaptations at the Aucilla River, Northwest Florida. report provided to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Office, Atlanta. 

Halligan, J. J. (2011). Preliminary Report of Archaeological Investigations on Ward Island, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Florida under ARPA permit STMWR3312010 as part of Ph.D. Research: Geoarchaeological Investigations into Paleoindian Adaptations at the Aucilla River, Northwest Florida. report provided to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Office, Atlanta. 

Service

Florida State University

FSU University Service

Secretary, Provost's committee for Native American and Indigenous Studies program (2021–present).

Member, Diving Control Board (2016–present).

FSU Department Service

Chair, Search Committee for Three Tenure Track Hires (2022–present).

Member, Curator Search Committee (2022–present).

Chair, Bylaws Committee (2021–present).

Member, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2019–present).

Founder and Coach, Society for American Archaeology Conference Ethics Bowl Team (2018–present).

Member, Curriculum Committee (2017–present).

Member, Space and moving committee (2017–present).

Member, Graduate Affairs Committee (2016–present).

Chair, Curriculum Committee (2020–2021).

Member, Tenure, Promotion, and Evaluation (2020–2021).

Member, Chair Search Committee (2020–2021).

Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee (2018–2021).

Member, Archaeologist Search Committee (2018).

Member, Cultural Anthropologist Search Committee (2017–2018).

The Profession

Reviewer or Panelist for Grant Applications

National Science Foundation (2016–present).

Service to Professional Associations

Geoarchaeology Award Committee Chair, Society for American Archaeology (2023–2026).

Geoarchaeology Award Committee member, Society for American Archaeology (2019–2022).

Dissertation award committee member, Dissertation Award Committee, Society for American Archaeology (2017–2019).

Student Paper Award Committee member, Student Paper Award Committee, Society for American Archaeology (2016–2017).

Student Paper Award Committee member, Student Paper Award Committee, Society for American Archaeology (2014–2016).

The Community

Presenter, Public Lecture "Why Dive? How drowned landscapes are helping us understand the early colonization of the Americas" ; https://youtu.be/GFUW-sBt9aQhttps://youtu.be/GFUW-sBt9aQ, Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild (2022).

Keynote Presenter, Public Lecture at the Loveland Stone Age Fair, a non commercial avocational archaeologist gathering that has occurred annually since 1924. "Why underwater? The importance of submerged landscape research for understanding the first peoples in the New World", Loveland Archaeological Society (2022).

Presenter, Public Lecture "The Underwater Archaeology of the First Americans: How rising water has both helped and hindered what we can know about the colonization of the continent.", FSU Marine Lab Science Cafe (2020).

Presenter, Public Lecture "Why Is the Aucilla River So Important to Understanding the Peopling of the Americas? How the underwater archaeology of drowned landscapes can answer big questions", Waterworks Science Salon (2020).

Presenter, Public Lecture "The First Floridians and the First Floods: How environmental changes have constrained Florida archaeology and how underwater archaeology promises to help.", Central Gulf Coast Archaeological Society (2019).

Presenter, Public Lecture "The impacts of sea level changes on the archaeology of Florida's first people", Silver River Knap-in (2019).

Presenter, Public Lecture "The Pre-Clovis Page-Ladson Site: Implications for Our Understanding of the First Americans", Time Sifters Archaeological Society (2019).

Presenter, Public Lecture "Soggy Bottoms and Sandy Shores: Florida's Paleoindians and Site Preservation.", Taylor County Historical Society (2018).

Presenter, Public Lecture "Paleo Research in the Panhandle: Rewriting the History Books", Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission NW Region Meeting (2017).

Presenter, Public Lecture "New Insights on the Peopling of the Americas and the Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla", Panhandle Archaeological Society of Tallahassee (2017).

Presenter, Public Lecture "The Aucilla River and the First Americans", St. Lawrence University Geological Field School (2017).

Presenter, Public Lecture "First Americans and Florida Rivers", Backwoods Crossing Science Cafe (2016).

Presenter, Public Lecture "First Americans in the Aucilla River", Free Thinkers Forum (2016).

Presenter, Public Lecture "The Aucilla River and the Peopling of the Americas.", Taylor County Historical Society (2016).

Presenter, Public Lecture "What Does the Future Hold for First Floridians Studies?" Presented at the First Floridians Conference, Monticello, FL, Aucilla Research Institute (2015).

Presenter, Public Lecture "The First Americans: Breaking news on who, when, where, and how.", Charles E. Brown Chapter of the Wisconsin Archaeological Society (2014).

Presenter, Public Lecture "Underwater Research and the Peopling of the Americas", Michigan Archaeology Brown Bag Series (2014).

Consultation

Aucilla Wildlife Management Area. Unpaid consultation on archaeological site status on Aucilla WMA. Conducted when possible along with students. Approximately 500 person-hours including self and students since arrival at FSU (2016–present).

FSU Presentations

Halligan, J. J. (2017). Black Water and Blue Chert: How Underwater Archaeology in Florida Is Changing Our Understanding of the Earliest Americans. FSU Board of Governors. 

Halligan, J. J. (2017). Flowing Ponds and Rising Seas: How Sea Level Change Has Impacted Florida Archaeology. FSU Libraries. 

Halligan, J. J. (2016). The Aucilla River and the First Americans. FSU Foundation.