Jessica Cogburn, Archeologist and Section 106 Program Manager for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program
The Ouachita Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society will host a talk by Jessica Cogburn of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program on “Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.”
The talk will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, at 7 p.m. in the Rainey Room in the new CIC Building at Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts, 200 Whittington Ave., Hot Springs. The event is free and open to the public.
In 1966, Congress established the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in order to preserve the historical and cultural foundations of the nation. As a result of this Act, every project with a federal nexus is required to undergo a review, known as Section 106, to consider the effects of the project on historic properties. This presentation will expand on the roles of the NHPA, Section 106, and the State Historic Preservation Office in preserving Arkansas’s historic properties.
Jessica Cogburn is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri in 2005 and her Master of Arts in Anthropology from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale in 2010. She began working for the Arkansas Archeological Survey as a Station Assistant in 2008 at the University of Arkansas Monticello Research Station. In 2014, she began the doctorate program in Anthropology at the University of Arkansas and was the ARAS graduate research assistant. In 2020, she moved to Jackson, Mississippi and worked for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History as a Section 106 archeological reviewer before moving back to Arkansas in 2021 to do the same job for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program. In 2022, she was promoted to the position of manager of the Section 106 Program Area and supervises a staff of four who all conduct archeological and architectural reviews with the goal of preserving Arkansas’s historic properties.
The Arkansas Archeological Survey’s research station at Henderson State University holds regular Archaeology Lab Days. Students and members of the public are invited to come by the research station on Thursdays between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to learn more about archaeology in Arkansas. For more information, contact Mary Beth Trubitt at 870-230-5510.
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