Jessi J. Halligan 

I am an anthropological archaeologist who works on three major related research topics in North American archaeology and anthropology: 1) understanding when and how  the New World was first settled by Indigenous peoples in the late Pleistocene and the lifeways of these first peoples; 2) the geoarchaeology of submerged landscapes, including site formation processes and discovery of submerged sites; and 3) foraging societies.  I work both underwater and on land, and have more than 30 years of experience in the archaeology of North America. My research employs underwater archaeology, terrestrial archaeology, geoarchaeology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, GIS, geophysics, and stone tool analysis. I  am an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University and am interested in accepting PhD students who want to research topics related to geoarchaeology, GIS, submerged landscapes, paleoenvironments, climate change and its impacts on foraging societies, foraging societies, and/or lithic analysis.