Teaching
Jillian teaches early modern material culture, archaeological analysis, and survey and excavation methods in classroom, virtual, and field settings.
Web Courses and Seminar Series
2020-2024 Founder, organizer and moderator, DAACS Conversations with Collaborating ScholarsA bi-weekly series of online seminars, showcasing research by members of the DAACS Research Consortium. Free and open to the public. All DAACS Conversations are recorded and available online. https://www.daacs.org/research/daacs-conversations/
2021 Organizer and instructor, with Elizabeth Bollwerk, Digital Data Collection in Archaeology. A virtual short course from DAACS. July 6, 13, 20, 27. https://www.daacs.org/research/daacs-open-academy/ The workshops were recorded and are available online here: DAACS Open Academy Archives | DAACS
2021 Organizer, and instructor with Elizabeth Bollwerk, Pete Alonzi, and Fraser Neiman, Introduction to R Programming for Historical Archaeologists. A virtual short course from DAACS. September 24, October 8, 27, November 5, 19, December 3, 17. https://www.daacs.org/research/daacs-open-academy/. All workshops were recorded and are available online here: DAACS Open Academy Archives | DAACS
Teaching Experience
2025 Director, DAACS Summer Institute at Monticello. Four week summer institute in early modern material culture and database methods for 10 fellows and interns, June 8-July 3. Funded by the International Center for Jefferson Studies and DAACS.
2022 Director, DAACS Summer Institute at Monticello. Four week summer institute in early modern material culture and database methods for 21 fellows and interns, July 18-August 13. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and DAACS.
2019 Director, DAACS Summer Institute at Monticello. Two week summer institute in early modern material culture and database methods for 5 interns from the Society of Black Archaeologists. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and DAACS.
2018 Lead Instructor, Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Conference Workshop, Doing Research and Teaching with The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) New Orleans, LA, January 3, 2018.
2016 Lead Instructor, Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Conference Workshop, Doing Research and Teaching with The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) Washington D.C., January 6, 2016.
2015 Teaching with DAACS Workshop at The University of South Carolina, October 1, 2015.
2015 Doing Research with DAACS, A day long workshop on teaching with The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery, The University of South Carolina, October 3, 2015.
2014 Director, Inaugural DAACS Summer Institute at Monticello as part of the Mellon-funded Expanding the DAACS Research Consortium grant. Two week summer institute in early modern material culture and database methods for 18 archaeologists from around North American and the Caribbean.
2011 Director and Instructor, The University of the West Indies, Mona Archaeological Field School, in collaboration with the DAACS Caribbean Initiative. Archaeological survey at the Mona Great House, Mona Estate, Jamaica. May-June. In collaboration with Dr. Ivor Conolley, UWI Lecturer in Archaeology.
2010 Director and Instructor, The University of the West Indies, Mona Archaeological Field School, in collaboration with the DAACS Caribbean Initiative. Archaeological excavations at the Mona and Papine Villages, Mona and Papine Estates, Kingston, Jamaica. January. In collaboration with Dr. Sabrina Rampersad, UWI Lecturer in Archaeology.
2009 Director and Instructor, The University of the West Indies, Mona Archaeological Field School, in collaboration with the DAACS Caribbean Initiative. Archaeological excavations at the Papine Village, Papine Estate, Kingston, Jamaica. January. In collaboration with Dr. Sabrina Rampersad, UWI Lecturer in Archaeology.
2008 Director and Instructor, The University of the West Indies, Mona Archaeological Field School, in collaboration with the DAACS Caribbean Initiative. Archaeological excavations at the Mona and Papine Villages, Mona and Papine Estates, Jamaica. January. In collaboration with Dr. Sabrina Rampersad, UWI Lecturer in Archaeology.
2007 Director, Anthropology 382: The Falmouth Field School in Historical Archaeology. May 23-June 15, 2007, Falmouth, Jamaica. The University of Virginia and in conjunction with Architectural History: 555, The Falmouth Field School in Historic Preservation, directed by Dr. Louis Nelson.
2006 Lecturer. History 28A: Research Methods and Techniques in Archaeology. The Department of History and Archaeology, The University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Spring semester.
2003 Instructor. Anthropology 284: Unearthing the Household: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Archaeology. University of Virginia, Summer Session I, June 10-July 8, 2003.
1995 Assistant Director, Archaeology at Venable Lane: The Foster Homesite. University of Virginia Archaeological Field School, Charlottesville, VA. May-August.
1994 Lab Director, Archaeology at Venable Lane: The Foster Homesite. University of Virginia Archaeological Field School, Charlottesville, VA. May-August.