Jill is an Independent Researcher in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology. She holds a Ph.D. from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, an MA from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Hamilton Massachusetts, and BA in Biblical Studies from Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts. Jill has taught as a Faculty Fellow (adjunct) in the Honors College at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, as an adjunct at the University of Miami in the Religious Studies Department, and has held fellowships at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, Israel.

Her excavation experience includes Harvard University’s Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, Gesher Excavations, and Tel Zahara Excavation. Jill’s post-excavation experience includes the Tel Miqne Publication Project, Jerusalem, Israel, wherein her on-going contribution focuses on the quantification and statistical analysis of the ceramics. From 2010 to the present, Jill has been the Executive Director of Archaeological Horizons, Inc., a nonprofit organization created to facilitate archaeological research. She directed the excavations of the Greensboro Blockhouse Project in Greensboro, Vermont. Jill has published three books, The Funeral Kit: Mortuary Practices in the Archaeological Record (2012. Left Coast Press/Routledge), The Greensboro Blockhouse Project: An Historical and Archaeological Investigation in Greensboro, Vermont, Co-authored with Patricia L. Haslam (2017. IndieGo Publications), and Technology of the Ancient Near East from the Neolithic to the Early Roman Periods (2019. Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group).