Dr. Jennifer Ramsay, PHD

INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

• 2026 Archaeological Institute of American (AIA) North Alabama Society – Huntsville, University of Alabama – Petra’s Forgotten Past: Uncovering the Iron Age Foundations of Nabataean Society and hTe Impact of Roman Military Presence on the Arid Landscapes of Southern Jordan and Israel
• 2026 Archaeological Institute of American (AIA) National Lecture Series Speaker – Baltimore Society , Johns Hopkins University – Petra’s Forgotten Past: Uncovering the Iron Age Foundations of Nabataean Society
• 2026 Archaeological Institute of American (AIA) National Lecture Series Speaker – Vancouver Society, University of British Columbia – Petra’s Forgotten Past: Uncovering the Iron Age Foundations of Nabataean Society
• 2026 Archaeological Institute of American (AIA) National Lecture Series Speaker – Bozeman Society, Montana State University - The Impact of Roman Military Presence on the Arid Landscapes of Southern Jordan and Israel – Virtual
• 2025 Archaeological Institute of American (AIA) National Lecture Series Speaker – Washington Society – Petra’s Forgotten Past: Uncovering the Iron Age Foundations of Nabataean Society
• 2025 Archaeological Institute of American (AIA) National Lecture Series Speaker – Winnipeg Society - The Impact of Roman Military Presence on the Arid Landscapes of Southern Jordan and Israel – University of Manitoba
• 2025 Archaeological Institute of American (AIA) National Lecture Series Speaker – The Cleveland society - Funerary Dining or Offerings for the Dead? Archaeobotanical Evidence from the Shaft Tombs at Petra, Jordan – Cleveland Art Museum - Ohio
• 2025 Archaeological Institute of American (AIA) National Lecture Series Speaker – The Pittsburgh society - The Impact of Roman Military Presence on the Arid Landscapes of Southern Jordan and Israel – Virtual
• 2025 Gannon University - Collins Lecture – Decades of Discovery: Roman and Byzantine Agricultural Innovations in Arid Southern Jordan and Israel – Erie, PA.
• 2025 Archaeological Institute of American (AIA) National Lecture Series Speaker – The Southwest Texas society - Funerary Dining or Offerings for the Dead? Archaeobotanical Evidence from the Shaft Tombs at Petra, Jordan – University of Texas San Antonio
• 2024 Archaeological Institute of American (AIA) National Lecture Series Speaker – The New Brunswick society - Roman Military and its Effects on the Arid Landscape of Southern Jordan and Israel: An Archaeobotanical Study – University of New Brunswick, NB, Canada
• 2023 Friends of American Schools of Overseas Research (ASOR) Webinar titled, “The Wheat from the Chaff: What we can Learn from Studying Plants in Antiquity”. https://www.asor.org/news/2023/10/webinar-ramsay-archaeobotany
• 2022 - American Center of Research virtual lecture series – “Funerary Dinning or Offerings for the Dead? Archaeobotanical Evidence from the Shaft Tombs at Petra, Jordan”
• 2018 - 2019 Archaeological Institute of American (AIA), Guest speaker – “Plants, People and Landscapes: An Archaeobotanical Look at the Environment and Its Implications in the Eastern Mediterranean”. Rochester, NY & Niagara Peninsula Chapter.
• 2018 Archaeological Institute of American (AIA) Lecture Series Speaker – “Plants, People and Landscapes: An Archaeobotanical Look at the Environment and Its Implications in the Eastern Mediterranean”, California Chapter, North Coast.
• 2016 Boston University Brown Bag Talk – “Archaeological Evidence for Defining an Agricultural Hinterland at Arid Sites in Southern Jordan and Israel: A Work in Progress”
• 2016 “TED talks” at Scholars Day at SUNY Brockport, SUNY – “Agriculture in Arid Environments: Archaeological Evidence of Past Success and Contribution to a Global Future”
• 2016 8th Annual Lecture in Applied Anthropology - St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY - “Agriculture in Arid Environments: Archaeological Evidence of Past Success in Southern Jordan (and Israel!)”
• 2015 The 23rd Congress on Roman Frontier Studies, Limes Congress, Ingolstadt, Germany - Roman Military and its Effects on the Arid Landscape of Southern Jordan and Israel: An Archaeobotanical Study
• 2015 Mediterranean Passages Symposium, SUNY Brockport, SUNY – Plants, People and Landscape: An Archaeobotanical Look at the Environmental and its Implications in the Eastern Mediterranean
• 2014 Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology guest lecture, SUNY Buffalo – Arid Agriculture: Evidence from Archaeobotanical Remains at Nabataean through Islamic Period Sites in Southern Jordan
• 2014 Guest speaker - Alpha Chi honors society induction ceremony
• 2014 SUNY Brockport, ‘Eagle Talks’ - Agriculture in Arid Environments
• 2014 Colloquium - Sponsored by the Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel - Ancient Desert Agriculture: A Comparison of Archaeobotanical Remains Recovered from Archaeological Sites in Southern Jordan
• 2013 Invited presentation to the SUNY research foundation – Seeds of Inquiry: Desert Agriculture in the ancient Near East
• 2011 101 Years of Cultural Research in Aqaba – Jordan – sponsored by University of Jordan, the German Archaeological Institute (Orient-Department) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences – Archaeobotanical remains from the Roman Aqaba Project: insight into local production and long distance trade

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

• 2026 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), San Francisco, CA – “Tracing Zoroastrian Funerary Practices in Petra: Insights into Cross-Cultural Exchange” co-author Björn Anderson.
  
  

• 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), Boston, MA – “Exploring Cultural Continuity and Change in the Petra Region (600 BCE - 200 CE)” -co-author Björn Anderson.

• 2025 The International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan (ICHAJ), Athens, Greece – “Cultural Exchange in Ancient Trade Networks: Zoroastrian Elements in Petra’s Burial Practices” – co-authored with Björn Anderson
  
  
• 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), Boston, MA – “Bridging the Gap: Investigating Pre-Nabataean Jordan” -co-authors Björn Anderson and Craig Harvey.
  
  

• 2024 European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy - “Death Across the Mediterranean and Beyond: Ritual Significance and Comparative Analysis of Tombs from the Balearic Islands, Arabia, and Persia.” Co-authored with Alex Smith.

• 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Oriental Research, Chicago, Ill. – “Seeds of the Crusades: Archaeobotanical Material from Caesarea Maritima, Israel”

• 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research, Boston, MA (co-authored with Andrew Smith II & Bjorn Anderson) – “Aspects of Zoroastrianism in Nabataean Petra”.
  
  
• 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research, Chicago, Ill. & Virtual - (co-authored with Kathleen Forste) – “Byzantine Plants: An Archaeobotanical Study of the Agricultural Economy of Caesarea Maritima, Israel”.
  
  
• 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Oriental Research, Virtual - (co-authored with Megan Perry) – “Funerary Dinning or Offerings for the Dead? Archaeobotanical Evidence from the Shaft Tombs at Petra, Jordan”.
  
  
• 2020 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Washington, D.C. (co-authored with alumnus Jonathan Broida) – Lightening session paper titled – “The Agricultural Economy of Roman Sicily: An Archaeobotanical Perspective”.
  
  
• 2019 International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan (ICHAJ), Florence, Italy – (co-authored with Megan Perry) – “Archaeobotanical Evidence of Mortuary Behavior from the Shaft Tombs at Petra”.
  
  
• 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Oriental Research (ASOR), Denver, CO. – “Seeds of Change: How Plant Remains Reflect the Transformation of Communities in the Roman Near East”
  
  
• 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology (SAA), Washington, D.C. - – (co-author with undergraduate student Noah Haber) – Poster Session – “Examining the Concept of Hinterland in Antiquity in Arid Regions of the Levant Using Archaeobotanical Data and GIS Analysis”.
  
  
• 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Oriental Research (ASOR), Boston, MA – (co-author with undergraduate student Noah Haber) – Poster Session – “Examining the Concept of Hinterland in Antiquity in Arid Regions of the Levant Using Archaeobotanical Data and GIS Analysis”.
  
  
• 2017 Society of American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada - (co-author with former undergraduate student Geoffrey Hedges) – Poster session - “Evidence of Destruction at the end of the Early Bronze Age III Period at Khirbet Iskander: An Archaeobotanical Perspective (A work in progress…)”
  
  
• 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Oriental Research, San Antonio, TX – (co-author with former undergraduate student Geoffrey Hedges) – “Evidence of Destruction at the end of the Early Bronze Age III Period at Khirbet Iskander: An Archaeobotanical Perspective (A work in progress…)”
  
  
• 2015 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, LA. – (co-authored with Yotam Tepper, Israeli Antiquities Authority and Guy Bar-Oz, University of Haifa) Poster session - “For the Birds: An Environmental Archaeological Analysis of Byzantine Pigeon Towers in the Negev, Israel”
  
  
• 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Oriental Research, San Diego, CA – (co-authored with Yotam Tepper, Israeli Antiquities Authority and Guy Bar-Oz, University of Haifa) - “For the Birds: An Environmental Archaeological Analysis of Byzantine Pigeon Towers in the Negev, Israel”
  
  
• 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Oriental Research, Baltimore, MD – (co-authored with Amanda Foley – Undergraduate student) “Seeds of Roman Galilee: An Archaeobotanical Analysis of Huqoq, Israel”
  
  
• 2013 International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan (ICHAJ), Berlin, Germany – “Desert Agriculture: A Comparison of Botanical Remains Recovered from Archaeological Sites in Southern Jordan”
  
  
• 2013 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Seattle, WA – Poster session - “Desert Agriculture: An Examination of the Archaeobotanical Remains from Bir Madhkur, Jordan”
  
  
• 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Oriental Research, Chicago, IL – “Desert Agriculture: A Preliminary Look at the Archaeobotanical Remains from Bir Madhkur, Jordan”
  
  
• 2012 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia, PA – “Archaeobotanical Evidence of Funerary Dinning in Ancient Sicily”
  
  
• 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Oriental Research, San Francisco, CA– (co-authored with Sandor Vegh – Undergraduate student) - “Archaeobotanical Remains From The Petra Garden And Pool Complex 2009: A Continued Examination”