Jessica C. Linker

Jessica C. Linker is an Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern University's College of Social Sciences and Humanities, specializing in early American history and digital scholarship. Her research explores women's scientific practices in the 18th and 19th centuries and the use of virtual/augmented reality in historical pedagogy.

• Co-director of Huskiana Press, an experiential letterpress studio
• Supported by institutions like the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the American Philosophical Society

Her work interrogates how social and cultural trends obscured women's contributions to science and advocates for immersive technologies in historical research.

• New-York Historical Society Fellow (2022)
• CLIR Humanities and Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-19)
• Zuckerman Dissertation Prize (2019)
• Pennsylvania Consortium for the Liberal Arts Opportunity Grant (2018-19)

Linker’s publications focus on digital pedagogy, 19th-century science, and decolonial frameworks. She has collaborated on projects integrating 3D/VR/AR into humanities teaching and has received multiple fellowships for her research.