BIO

Jessica Calvanico is a Producer, Historian, Writer, and Artist. 

As a Producer, Jessica has extensive experience at all stages of production–from creative development to post’s final deliverables. With expertise in editorial development, archival production, R&C, licensing, storytelling, talent relations, field production, casting, interviewing, brand management, wardrobe, scripting, and socials; she has worked on documentary films, television, podcasts, commercial, and marketing projects.

As a historian, Jessica is an expert in qualitative and archival research, digital asset management, archival curation and processing, and project management. She earned her PhD at University of California, Santa Cruz, MA at the University of Chicago, and BA at the George Washington University. Her writing explores histories of global girlhood, and her current project focusing on the House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic reformatory in New Orleans for “sexually delinquent” girls. Her writing has appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and the English Historical Review; she has edited several published volumes of research texts and indices, and wrote an experimental ethnographic play entitled Avalon (Peradam Press). Her current monograph, Carceral Girlhoods: Juvenile Justice and “the Problem” of the Girl in New Orleans, will debut on University of North Carolina Press. 

Jessica is also a musician, speaker, educator, and performer who has been featured at the University of California, Stanford, California College of the Arts, Sonoma State University, SUNY Stony Brook, Pratt Institute, Rutgers, MoMa PS 1, and the Art Institute of Chicago.