Of note: 2016 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, $28,590 2016 Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant, UGA Graduate School, $1,000 2016 Fred Plog Memorial Fellowship, Society for American Archaeology, $1,000 2015 Student Paper Competition Winner, Southeastern Archaeological Conference 2015 Norman Herz Small Grant, UGA Center for Archaeological Sciences 2014 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention Research Research Areas: Archaeology Research Interests: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Eastern North America Social Networks Political Systems and Collective Action Regional Archaeology Time and Temporality Bayesian Chronological Modelling Archaeological Theory Archaeological Geophysics Selected Publications Selected Publications: Birch, Jennifer, Jacob Lulewicz, and Abigail Rowe2016 A Comparative Analysis of the Late Woodland-Early Mississippian Settlement Landscape in Northern Georgia. Southeastern Archaeology 35(1). Birch, Jennifer and Jacob Lulewicz2015 Archaeological and Geophysical Investigations of Raccoon Ridge, a Transitional Late Woodland-Early Mississippian Village in the Georgia Piedmont. Early Georgia 42(2):89-103. Education Education: 2012 B.A. Anthropology (Minor: Cultural Geography), Arizona State University