Jessica Taylor

• 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

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.

• Southern Foodways Alliance
• Humanities Virginia (formerly Virginia Foundation for the Humanities)
• Main Street Preservation Trust, Gloucester, Virginia