Curriculum Vitae
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Jason T. Herrmann
Doctoral Candidate
Environmental Dynamics Program
113 Ozark Hall
University of Arkansas - Fayetteville
Fayetteville, AR 72701
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Environmental Dynamics Program - (in progress)
M.A. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Department of Anthropology - December 2004
B.A. University of Cincinnati, Department of Anthropology with Honors - May 1999
PUBLICATIONS and REPORTS
In production Herrmann, Jason T. Ancient Human Ecodynamics at Three Sites in the Rub’ al-Khali Desert, Dubai, UAE. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Fulbright School of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas
In press Casana, Jesse and Jason T. Herrmann. Settlement History and Urban Planning at Zincirli Höyük, southern Turkey. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology.
2009 Casana, Jesse, Jason T. Herrmann and Hussein Qandil. Settlement History in the eastern Rub al-Khali: Preliminary Report of the Dubai Desert Survey (2006-2007). Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy. 20 (1): 1-16
2008 Casana, Jesse, Jason T. Herrmann and Aaron Fogel. Deep subsurface geophysical prospection at Tell Qarqur, Syria. Archaeological Prospection 15, 207–225.
2006 Herrmann, Jason T. Product Review: IDRISI Andes Edition Enhances Modules, Adds Land Change Modeler. Earth Imaging Journal Vol 3. No. 6. pp. 40-41.
2004 Herrmann, Jason T. Interpreting Leetown through the Integration of Aerial and Ground-Based Remote Sensing Techniques. Report submitted to the Midwest Archaeological Center, National Park Service, Lincoln, Nebraska.
2005 Kay, Marvin and Jason T. Herrmann. Report on Archaeological Survey at Pea Ridge National Military Park, Benton County, Arkansas, and Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, Christian and Green Counties, Missouri. 2001-2004. Report to U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, for Cooperative Agreement No. CA611500047. Lincoln, Nebraska.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2010 Herrmann, Jason T. Evidence for Desert Occupation and Environmental Change at Three sites in Dubai, UAE. Paper presented at the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, British Museum, London.
2009 Herrmann, Jason T. Site Formation at Saruq al-Hadid, Dubai and Implications for Environmental Change in Ancient Southeast Arabia. Paper presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, November 18-23, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana
2009 Herrmann, Jason T. Digital Dunes: Site Structure as seen in GPR from Saruq al-Hadid, UAE. Paper presented at the 37th annual international conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), March 22-26, 2009 in Williamsburg, Virginia
2009 Herrmann, Jason T. and Jesse Casana. Geomagnetic Survey at Zincirli Höyük, Turkey. Poster presented at the 37th annual international conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), March 22-26, 2009 in Williamsburg, Virginia
2009 Casana, Jesse, Hussein Qandil and Jason T. Herrmann. Archaeological investigations at Saruq al-Hadid: An Iron Age metalworking site in Dubai’s inland desert. 2nd Annual Symposium on Recent Palaeontological and Archaeological Discoveries in the Emirates, Abu Dhabi 2009
2008 Casana, Jesse, Jason T. Hermann and Eric R. Jensen. Settlement History and Urban Planning at Zincirli Höyük, Southern Turkey. Paper presented at the 2008 Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia.
2008 Hermann, Jason T. and Jesse Casana. Climate and Settlement Dynamics at Three Sites in the Rub’ al-Khali Desert, UAE. Paper presented at the 2008 Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia.
2008 Herrmann, Jason T. Human Ecodynamics at Three Sites in Dubai, UAE. Paper to be presented at the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
2007 Herrmann, Jason T., Eileen Ernenwein, Michele Koons, Dan Aylward, and Duncan McKinnon. Geophysics at Tiwanaku: Results from the 2006 Field Season. Poster presented at the 2007 Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Austin, TX.
2006 Herrmann, Jason T. Non-invasive Survey Techniques in Cultural Landscape Investigation. Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology 39th Conference on Historical and Underwater Archeology, January 11-15, 2006, Sacramento, California.
2006 Herrmann, Jason T. A GIS Approach to Evaluating Prehistoric Seasonal Land Use Strategies at Pea Ridge National Military Park, Arkansas. Poster presented at the 2006 Society for American Archaeology Meetings, April 26-30, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2006 Herrmann, Jason T., Jesse Casana and Aaron Fogel. Geophysical Prospection and Three Dimensional Modeling of Buried Archaeological Features at Tell Qarqur, Syria. Paper and poster presented at the 2006 ASOR meeting, Washington DC.
2003 Herrmann, Jason T. Preliminary Report on Upland Archaeological Investigations at Pea Ridge National Military Park. Paper presented at the 61st Plains Anthropological Conference, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2001 Scarborough, Vernon L., Hutchinson, Richard and Jason T. Herrmann. Evolution of a Maya Landscape: La Milpa and its Immediate Hinterlands. Paper presented in session in Honor of R.E.W. Adams' Contributions at the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meetings for the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.
INVITED LECTURES
2010 Settlement Trends and Environmental Change in Ancient Southeast Arabia as Seen from Saruq al-Hadid, Dubai, UAE. Presented at the Geosciences Colloquium, University of Arkansas
2009 Archaeological Investigations in Dubai's Interior. Presented to the Abu Dhabi chapter of the Emirates Natural History Group.
GRANTS and AWARDS
2008 American Schools of Oriental Research Travel Grant to support travel to the 2008 American Schools of Oriental Research Meetings, Boston MA
2008 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
2008 King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Student Research Grant to support archaeological fieldwork in at Zincirli Höyük, Turkey
2008 Chicago Luminescence Award to support OSL dating of sediments
2006 Robert L. Stigler Jr. Scholarship to support archaeological fieldwork in Dubai, UAE.
2006 King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Student Research Grant to support archaeological fieldwork in Dubai, UAE
2006 American Schools of Oriental Research Travel Grant to support travel to the 2006 American Schools of Oriental Research Meetings, Washington DC
2004-2008 University of Arkansas Doctoral Academy Fellowship
1998 University of Cincinnati Globalization Travel Grant to support studies in southern Mexico.
1997 Charles Phelps Taft Undergraduate Enrichment Award to support archaeological fieldwork at La Milpa, Belize. University of Cincinnati
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2011 Co-director, UCLA Archaeology Field Program: Tell el-Amarna Geophysics Archaeological Project, Egypt.
2010 Instructor, Center for American Archaeology Geomatics Field School, at the Center for American Archaeology at Arizona State University, Kampsville, Illinois
2009-2010 Guest Lectures, Approaches to Archaeology, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas.
2009 Instructor, Introduction to Raster GIS, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas.
2008-2009 Instructor, Approaches to Archaeology Lab, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas.
2007 Introduction to high-density scanning for archaeologists. Workshop at the 2007 Society for American Archaeology Meetings. Austin TX. Christopher Goodmaster and Jason T. Herrmann instructors, W. Fredrick Limp, Director.
2005 Guest Lecture, Archaeological Remote Sensing, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas.
SELECT FIELD PROJECTS
2010 Spatial Data Coordinator, Neubauer Expediton to Zincirli Höyük, University of Chicago
2010 Surveyor, Julfar al-Nudud, Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. With Oxford Brookes University.
2007-2009 Archaeo-Geophysics Specialist, Neubauer Expediton to Zincirli Höyük, University of Chicago
2006-2009 Archaeologist, remote sensing, Dubai Desert Survey, United Arab Emirates
2006-2007 Archaeo-Geophysics Specialist, Tell Qarqur Expedition, Syria
2006 Archaeo-Geophysics Specialist, Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria
2005-2006 Archaeo-Geophysics Specialist, Tiwanaku geophysical survey, Tiahuanaco, Bolivia
2003-2004 Archaeo-Geophysics Specialist, SERDP research project: New Approaches to the Use and Integration of Multi-sensor Remote Sensing for Historic Resource Identification and Evaluation. Alamogordo, NM.
2002-2005 Graduate Assistant, Battlefields Archaeological Survey, Pea Ridge National Military Park, Arkansas and Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, Missouri
1997-1998 Excavator, Ancient Maya Water and Land Use in Northwest Belize Project, Belize
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007-2008 Research Assistant, MEST Supported Archaeological Activities, King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, University of Arkansas
2006-2007 Research Assistant, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas
2003-2004 Principal Investigator, Development of Leetown Hamlet Interpretation through Geophysical Methods, Pea Ridge National Military Park, Arkansas
2002-2004 Research Assistant, Battlefields Archaeological Survey and Predictive Modeling Project, University of Arkansas
2000-2002 Technical Specialist, Gray & Pape, Inc. Cultural Resource Consultants
1999-2000 Field Technician, Gray & Pape, Inc. Cultural Resource Consultants
1997-1999 Laboratory Technician, Ancient Maya Water and Land Use in Northwest Belize Project, University of Cincinnati
TECHNICAL SKILLS
GIS Software: ESRI ArcGIS Suite, Idrisi Taiga (Clark Labs), Intergraph Geomedia, ERDAS Imagine, Golden Software Surfer
Geophysical data processing software: Geoplot, Archaeosurveyor, ArchaeoMapper, RADAN, GPR-Slice
Near surface geophysical and survey instruments: laser total station, ground-penetrating radar, geomagnetic survey, electrical resistance, electromagnetic conductivity meters and magnetic susceptibility meters.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Association of American Geographers
Society for American Archaeology
International Society for Archaeological Prospection
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology
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