Jessica Taylor
Jessica Taylor, Assistant Professor
Department of History
220 Stanger St.
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-5331 | jessicataylor@vt.edu
Jessica Taylor is an assistant professor of oral and public history at Virginia Tech.
- Oral History
- Early American History
- Historic Preservation
- Native American History
- Ph.D., University of Florida
- Certificate in Historic Preservation, University of Florida
- M.A., College of William and Mary
- Society of Early Americanists
- Oral History Association
- Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
- Global Systems Science Destination Area
- Columbia Center for Oral History Research Fellowship, 2017
- Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship in Early American Literature, 2016
- Mellon Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society
Books
Journal Articles
Taylor, Jessica. “‘We’re on Fire’: Oral History and the Preservation, Commemoration, and Rebirth of Mississippi’s Civil Rights Sites,” Oral History Review, 2015.
Taylor, Jessica. “To Learn the Trade of a Potter: Apprenticeship and Deviance in Moravian North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review, 2012.
Book Chapters
- Southern Foodways Alliance
- Humanities Virginia (formerly Virginia Foundation for the Humanities)
- Main Street Preservation Trust, Gloucester, Virginia
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