During Jessica's Public History Ph.D. and career, she has had the distinct opportunity to engage in historic preservation fieldwork in various ways. This includes visiting the Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA) to conduct research on Wessyngton Plantation's enslaved medical bills and the cultural significance of Black Bottom, which can be seen using the slider below.

She was also invited to volunteer at a two-day community archiving workshop (CAW) at American Baptist College's Susie McClure Library Special Collections & Archives, where she collaborated with other volunteers and received training from the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) as part of The Center for the Digitization and Curation of African American History in Nashville for their 2023 Community Curation Program, displayed in slider below.

Continuing her collaboration with ABC's Director of Library Services, Angel Sloss-Pridgen, Jessica aided in creating a finding aid for seminary graduates' historic dissertations. This contributes to ABC Susie McClure Library's Sloss-Pridgen's monumental efforts to get funding to create the ABC Digital Scholarship repository . Additionally, at Mrs. Sloss-Pridgen's request, Jessica compiled a tour and accompanied social media influencer George Sedburry Jr. advising along the way on his HBCU Travel Challenge at ABC; the endeavors can each be seen on the slider below.

Jessica's contributions also extend to fieldwork surveys and historical assessments of sites nominated for the National Registry of Historic Places. This includes measuring Montgomery's First Baptist "Brick-a-Day" Church and surveying to nominate a Trail of Tears Segment for Twin Forks Trail as a High Potential Site on the National Historic Trails, displayed within the slider below.

She has been involved in cemetery preservation and research, such as contributing to a preliminary assessment report for Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Notasulga, Alabama, and participating in a joint preservation and cleaning workshop for Toussaint L'Ouverture Cemetery in Franklin, Tennessee, illustrated in the slider below. Currently, Jessica is assisting in researching the multitude of cemeteries at Johnsonville State Historic Park with the Center for Historic Preservation.

Jessica also jointly or individually performed research or surveys to compile assessment and interpretation suggestions at multiple plantations ("forced labor camps," per Clint Smith in How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America) across Tennessee, including Wessyngton Plantation in Cedar Hill, Beechwood (Mayberry) Plantation in Franklin, Riverside Plantation in Murfreesboro, and Smith-Trahern Plantation in Clarksville, seen below within slider.

She, other graduate research assistants, and MTSU's Center for Historic Preservation leadership created exhibit panels for Riverside Plantation in Murfreesboro. Her goal is always to center Black landscapes and voices that may have been silenced or obscured prior in history. To view full-resolution Riverside panels, click the images on either side below.

Additionally, Jessica continues passionately conducting oral histories with descendants and ancestors of historically relevant sites, focusing on marginalized Black communities. She also aided in installing UV-blocking window film at Shiloh-Rosenwald School, a site connected with Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery, that reverently honors Tuskegee Syphilis Study victims who were reportedly perpetrated upon at the bench to the right of the church. This was done alongside other public history students via Tennessee State Historian and Director of the Center for Historic Preservation at MTSU, Dr. Carroll Van West's class Race, & the Southern Landscape: Current Issues in Public History Practice; efforts from the course can be seen below, scrolling with the slider.