Jason Laffoon
Associate Professor
- Name
- Dr. J.E. Laffoon
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2646
- j.e.laffoon@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8821-805X
Jason Laffoon is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Archaeological Science, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.
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News
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Grant enables archaeologists to study origins of museum artefacts -
Investigating Caribbean migrations with a Vidi grant: ‘With isotope analysis we can look at individual behaviors and long term patterns’ -
Vidi grants for eight researchers from Leiden University -
Leiden archaeologists repatriate human remains to St. Eustatius -
Innovative research offers new insight into ancient infant feeding practices -
Ancient DNA provides new insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean -
Isotope analysis finds source lead poisoning among slaves on Barbados -
Jason Laffoon's Archaeometry article in top 20 most read -
Jason Laffoon’s Leiden Experience: ‘I am expanding my horizons chronologically and regionally’ -
Dental analysis gives unique insight in life of enslaved African
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Quantitative paleodietary reconstruction with complex foodwebs: An isotopic case study from the Caribbean -
New method of determining geographic origin of humans
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PhD candidates
Office days
Monday to Thursday
Research
Jason Laffoon is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeological Science, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.
Jason's main research interests focus on integrating bioarchaeological and biochemical approaches to the study of patterns of mobility/migration, diet, and exchange.
Teaching activities
Jason serves as course coordinator and instructor for both bachelor and masters general courses, as well as specialist seminars.
Curriculum Vitae
Jason obtained his BA (2004) and MA (2006) in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his PhD in Archaeology (2012) from Leiden University.
His PhD project was embedded within the NWO-funded research project Communicating Communities in the Circum-Caribbean. For his PhD dissertation Patterns of Paleomobility in the Ancient Antilles: An Isotopic Approach, he carried out a large-scale isotope study of animal and human skeletal remains from prehistoric and proto-historic sites in the Caribbean to document spatial, temporal, and societal variation in patterns of human migration. From 2013 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Caribbean Research Group (Leiden) in the NWO-funded Island Networks research project, and in the Human Provenance Research Group (VU Amsterdam) in the ERC-Synergy NEXUS 1492 project.
Jason began as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology (Leiden) in 2016 and became an permanent staff member in the Department of Archaeological Sciences in 2019. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022 and has served as the Head of the Department since 2020.
Associate Professor
- Faculteit Archeologie
- Archaeological Sciences
- Bio-Archaeology
- guest researcher