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Jessica Hanson, Ph.D., is a Public Historian and Library Assistant for Access Services at Fisk University's John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). She also serves as a contracted Public History Researcher with the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project. She earned her Ph.D. in Public History from Middle Tennessee State University, where she specialized in historic preservation, oral history, and material culture. Her dissertation research examines nineteenth- through twenty-first-century Black women preservationists and public historians, with particular attention to placemaking and placekeeping across underrepresented and historically marginalized landscapes associated with author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. Jessica's work centers community-engaged research, descendant collaboration, and applied public history practice that honors lived experience, memory, and cultural landscapes. Beyond her professional work, she enjoys traveling, reading, spending time in nature, supporting animal rescue efforts, and visiting cultural heritage and public history sites.
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